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Chess 20 Jun 1937, Sun Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. Jr., America * Authority on Social Chess. Elsie Shepard Stan in Tourney. PLAYING with the finesse and coolness of a master in the District of Columbia tournament for the woman's championship.
Mrs, Elsie R. Shepard of 5425 Connecticut avenue northwest practically has won the feminine crown, having scored six straight victories against such strong local players as Mesdames H. E. Kittredge, Anna Bran. Vivian Jeffers and Misses Charlotte Hallett, Mary Owens and Maud Sewall.
Only Dr. (Mrs.) M. Fitzgerald remains to challenge Mrs. Shepard's supremacy to the title of woman chess champion of the District of Columbia. In round 3 Mrs. Anna Bran gave Mrs. Shepard her strongest opposi-j tion, but at the crucial point in end- ' game play lost a much-needed knight, j which led to her graceful resignation. Should Mrs. Shepard only obtain a draw with Dr. Fitzgerald, she will have triumphed in the ladles’ tournament.
A loss will mean a possible tie at the most with Mrs. Anna Bran, who as a young girl learned chess in her native Poland. EI.SIE R. SHEPARD. Elsie Shepard learned the elements 1 of rheas shortly after her marriage to E R. Shepard, who dallied with ’ the game as a pastime during his ! Harvard college days. She played the game only occasionally until in recent years and i never has made a serious study of the ! strategy and style of the great mas-1 ters. Natural aptitude for the royal game, plus frequent n»* r-theboard play with her husband and close friends, largely accounts for her present strength and skill as a chess star. In the 193(5 team tournament of the Metropolitan Ctiess Association, Mrs. Shepard was an active member of the ladies' match team and won many of her games against veteran masculine opponents.
Several year* ago Mrs. Arthur Jones encouraged a group of laddes to visit weekly at her home, near Massachusetts avenue and Capitol street and play chess with her daughter, Mrs. Marie Wilde, who was convalescing at the time from a broken leg. Elsie Shepard comprised one of the group that enjoyed the warm hospitality of Mrs. Jones.
Later the group rotated among the homes of its members—Mesdames Vivian Jeffers. H. E. Kittredge and Miss Charlotte Hallett. At one time W, B. Mundelle, Washington's grand patriarch of chess, coached the ladies, and sought to obtain facilities for a ladies' chess club. With the firm establishment of the local Metropolitan Chess Association, the chess amazons realized their much-coveted goal—a District chess tournament for women—and it promises to be an annual affair. Elsie Shepard will be the first official woman chess champion of the Nation’s Capital, for surely she at least will draw her remaining game with Mrs. Fitzgerald. / Individual scoring to date: D. C. Ladles' Chess Chamslenthls.
Chairman Maud Sewall has completed her match schedule.
Several of the remaining match games have been arranged for Monday and Wednesday evenings at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel. The exact date of the final round between Mesdames Shepard and Fitzgerald will be announced in Monday's column. Divan Plans Summer Activities. PRESIDENT I. J. CURRAN has designated three committee* to aid in directing in the Summer program of the Washington Social Chess Divan. Norval P. Wigginton, treasurer, has been selected as chairman of the Membership Committee, which will inaugurate a drive for increase in membership of class A and B players. Henry Reel was chosen chairman of the Social Committee, which will supervise outdoor picnics, luncheons, dances and sundry entertainment. Chairman of the Tournament Committee has not been announced, but Dame Rumor credit* Simon Naldel as the guiding hand.
Every Wednesday at g p.m the Divan holds a regular conclave of informal play at the Social Chess Lounge. The public is welcome. Rc rent visitors include Charles Johnson Post, commissioner of conciliation. Department of Labor; Harry Zachary, Stuart Wagman, Floyd Wirsing, roach and adviser to the Eastern High Chess Club; E M Knapp, General New. comer; Mesdames V, Colonna, Carl Hesse and Alexander Brooks.
Edith Johnson, E. Perry and J. A. McGuire, Stark Drops a Game ^/JARTIN STARK, former District chess champion, competed in his first national tournament, conducted by the American Chess Federation, last Summer at Philadelphia. In his encounter with R. Willman young Stark scored a victory and a loss with the Black pieces Today's game shows Stark battling in vain against the Ret.i onslaught of Willman. RETt OPEVENT,, U'h,tr. Rlnrk Wh,tr. Rlark, S'»rk. Willm.n.
By B HARLEY Social Chav* Quarterly* BLACK—9 MEN. WH1TF—f> MF.N. 1 Whl'f In PIiy and Mala In Twn. A NDERSON'S two-mover, problem No. 81 surrenders to K-Kt3 and A. G Dreyer noses In a few minutes before the deadline Eugpnie Kittredg* suggests RxB which fails. No. 82 by Brian Harley is solved by the key move: K-Q6. The threat is Q-R4.
a pinmate. as we term mates that would fail without the pin of a Black piece. Correct keys come from Daniel Breeskin. Sergt Alton O. Coppage.
E W. Allen, A. G. Dreyer Paul M Hodges. Charles A Carrico: Charles Dubs offers QxR which is futile, and L C Dorkings misses fire, also Mrs. H E. Kittredge. This column welcomes chess facts end mews, and prints the news when it is news For a response to Queries, inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope lOornth'. June CO. Ifl.tr hr Paul Miller.
Mrs, Elsie R. Shepard of 5425 Connecticut avenue northwest practically has won the feminine crown, having scored six straight victories against such strong local players as Mesdames H. E. Kittredge, Anna Bran. Vivian Jeffers and Misses Charlotte Hallett, Mary Owens and Maud Sewall.
Only Dr. (Mrs.) M. Fitzgerald remains to challenge Mrs. Shepard's supremacy to the title of woman chess champion of the District of Columbia. In round 3 Mrs. Anna Bran gave Mrs. Shepard her strongest opposi-j tion, but at the crucial point in end- ' game play lost a much-needed knight, j which led to her graceful resignation. Should Mrs. Shepard only obtain a draw with Dr. Fitzgerald, she will have triumphed in the ladles’ tournament.
A loss will mean a possible tie at the most with Mrs. Anna Bran, who as a young girl learned chess in her native Poland. EI.SIE R. SHEPARD. Elsie Shepard learned the elements 1 of rheas shortly after her marriage to E R. Shepard, who dallied with ’ the game as a pastime during his ! Harvard college days. She played the game only occasionally until in recent years and i never has made a serious study of the ! strategy and style of the great mas-1 ters. Natural aptitude for the royal game, plus frequent n»* r-theboard play with her husband and close friends, largely accounts for her present strength and skill as a chess star. In the 193(5 team tournament of the Metropolitan Ctiess Association, Mrs. Shepard was an active member of the ladies' match team and won many of her games against veteran masculine opponents.
Several year* ago Mrs. Arthur Jones encouraged a group of laddes to visit weekly at her home, near Massachusetts avenue and Capitol street and play chess with her daughter, Mrs. Marie Wilde, who was convalescing at the time from a broken leg. Elsie Shepard comprised one of the group that enjoyed the warm hospitality of Mrs. Jones.
Later the group rotated among the homes of its members—Mesdames Vivian Jeffers. H. E. Kittredge and Miss Charlotte Hallett. At one time W, B. Mundelle, Washington's grand patriarch of chess, coached the ladies, and sought to obtain facilities for a ladies' chess club. With the firm establishment of the local Metropolitan Chess Association, the chess amazons realized their much-coveted goal—a District chess tournament for women—and it promises to be an annual affair. Elsie Shepard will be the first official woman chess champion of the Nation’s Capital, for surely she at least will draw her remaining game with Mrs. Fitzgerald. / Individual scoring to date: D. C. Ladles' Chess Chamslenthls.
Chairman Maud Sewall has completed her match schedule.
Several of the remaining match games have been arranged for Monday and Wednesday evenings at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel. The exact date of the final round between Mesdames Shepard and Fitzgerald will be announced in Monday's column. Divan Plans Summer Activities. PRESIDENT I. J. CURRAN has designated three committee* to aid in directing in the Summer program of the Washington Social Chess Divan. Norval P. Wigginton, treasurer, has been selected as chairman of the Membership Committee, which will inaugurate a drive for increase in membership of class A and B players. Henry Reel was chosen chairman of the Social Committee, which will supervise outdoor picnics, luncheons, dances and sundry entertainment. Chairman of the Tournament Committee has not been announced, but Dame Rumor credit* Simon Naldel as the guiding hand.
Every Wednesday at g p.m the Divan holds a regular conclave of informal play at the Social Chess Lounge. The public is welcome. Rc rent visitors include Charles Johnson Post, commissioner of conciliation. Department of Labor; Harry Zachary, Stuart Wagman, Floyd Wirsing, roach and adviser to the Eastern High Chess Club; E M Knapp, General New. comer; Mesdames V, Colonna, Carl Hesse and Alexander Brooks.
Edith Johnson, E. Perry and J. A. McGuire, Stark Drops a Game ^/JARTIN STARK, former District chess champion, competed in his first national tournament, conducted by the American Chess Federation, last Summer at Philadelphia. In his encounter with R. Willman young Stark scored a victory and a loss with the Black pieces Today's game shows Stark battling in vain against the Ret.i onslaught of Willman. RETt OPEVENT,, U'h,tr. Rlnrk Wh,tr. Rlark, S'»rk. Willm.n.
By B HARLEY Social Chav* Quarterly* BLACK—9 MEN. WH1TF—f> MF.N. 1 Whl'f In PIiy and Mala In Twn. A NDERSON'S two-mover, problem No. 81 surrenders to K-Kt3 and A. G Dreyer noses In a few minutes before the deadline Eugpnie Kittredg* suggests RxB which fails. No. 82 by Brian Harley is solved by the key move: K-Q6. The threat is Q-R4.
a pinmate. as we term mates that would fail without the pin of a Black piece. Correct keys come from Daniel Breeskin. Sergt Alton O. Coppage.
E W. Allen, A. G. Dreyer Paul M Hodges. Charles A Carrico: Charles Dubs offers QxR which is futile, and L C Dorkings misses fire, also Mrs. H E. Kittredge. This column welcomes chess facts end mews, and prints the news when it is news For a response to Queries, inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope lOornth'. June CO. Ifl.tr hr Paul Miller.
