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Chess 13 Mar 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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"IT'S YOUR MOVE The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, - Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed ' W. H. STECKEL. Editor Kashdan Back From Trip Abroad After an absence of three months to England, Isaac Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess club of New York, returned Friday on the Deutschland of the Hamburg-American line. Abroad he played in two international tournaments and engaged In six simultaneous exhibitions.
In the annual international tourna ment at Hastings, Kashdan won sec- d prize, one point beruna saio jrionr "iCrorhnslnvakla. the winner. The Jew Yfiaker tied for third and fourth fUces with Mir Sultan Khan, of India, W the London congress. In the two tournaments, Kashdan, contested twenty games of which he won eleven, riraw eiffht and lost one. Asked concerning the possibility of a match for the United States championship, held by Frank J. Marshall, of New York, Kashdan said that he was awaiting word from the National Chess Federation as to the method of proceeding witn negotiations, ineraia-Tribune). vranir .T Marshall. United States champion, is back after a month's tour whicn tooic nim as iar as Minnesota. While in Chicago he delivered TTomMnn-'Rircspll trrvnhv won. bv the United States team at Prague to M. S. Kuhns, presiaens oi me national Chess Federation. Mr. Kuhns is interesting himself in the proposed title-match and discussed the matter briefly with Marshall. The latter .,- Viimnslf in readiness to nlav whenever the conditions adopted by the national ooay some tune ago iiave met.
Marshall's tour was most successful and wherever he went genuine enthusiasm was aroused. In the following summary will be found the results of most of his exhibitions: Baltimore, 29-0-0; Wilkes-Barre, 19-0-0; Blng-hamton. 20-2-1; Utica, 14-1-2; Rochester. 28-1-1: Buffalo, 20-1-8; Niagara Falls. 25-0-C: Toronto, 13-2-5; Grand Rapids. 35-0-1; Chicago, first, 20-0-2; Chicago, second, 15-0-1 Chicago, third, 9-1-2; Milwaukee, 27-1-1; Chicago, fourth, 26-5-2; Windsor, Ont., 15-0-1; Buffalo, 20-1-4. Dr. Alexander Alekhine, world's champion, broke the former champion, Jose R. Capablanca's simultaneous record on February 28, in Paris, France. He engaged 300 opponents In a benefit for French war veterans, playing at sixty boards with five players at each board.
The champion won thirty-seven games, drew seventeen and lost six. Capablanca's previous record made possible by H. Helms, editor of the American Chess Bulletin, was made in the Seventh Regiment's Armory. New York City, in 1931. against 200 opponents on fifty boards.
H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, who is now playing in the finals of the Pennsylvania Stste tournament, won the thirteenth game of a ftfteen-game match with the editor. The score is now 7V4-6H to Mr. Hesse's favor.
Frank J. Marshall, United States champion, has awarded the brilliancy Truse in the recent Mercantile Library tbampicjishlp tournament to the game to which Barnie F. Winkelman defeated S. Drasin and the prize for the best played game to the Drasin vs. Levin contest.
viavinff against 20 opponents. Reukfrh Fine, the new champion of tJjMarshall Chess club made a score 17 wins, two draws and one loss at St Washington s Durnaay garnering at the Weehawken Chess Club. The Marshall and Manhattan Chess clubs, sharing the lead In the annual championship series of the Metropolitan Chess League with five straight victories each, scored to fifth round matches. . .
Manhattan defeated New York uni versity. m-H, while Marshall won from Hungarian International by 7-0 with one game adjourned. - The Hungarian Workers registered their fourth victory, defeating the Scandinavians by 5-3. Empire City conquered Staten Island, 5-3, and Gramercy won from Rice Progressives 54-2. The match between West Side and City College resulted to a draw.
'(New York Times). The following Item Is from The Bulletin of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Cincinnati Enquirer: "The most remarkable thing about the chess masters, Including Dr. Alekhine is that they do not look like chess players as novelists' usually Imagine them. "Dr. Alekhine is talL fair-haired, athletic looking and young.
When playing Sultan Khan, one of the most brilliant of the young masters, Or. Alekhine smoked cigarette after cigarette and never took his eyes from the board. Miss Vera Menchlk, the only woman in the world who Is recognised as a chess "master'. Is rosy-cheeked and Jolly. "I play tennis and golf and do a little swimming, too, she confessed to a reporter, 'but chess, which I learned at nine years old, can sometimes he hard work.' " 'My longest game lasted 12 hours and involved 114 moves.
No, I never take any refreshments while playing chess. " This is the fourth game between Kashdan and World's Champion Alek hine and incidentally the fourth draw between these two masters: QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Kanhdan Alkhin Kashdan Alekhlo Problem No, 140 By R. B. Cooke Black 8 Pieces. o u D O Ira San a HI- 83 -0 White 9 Pieces. White to play and mate to two.
In the annual international tourna ment at Hastings, Kashdan won sec- d prize, one point beruna saio jrionr "iCrorhnslnvakla. the winner. The Jew Yfiaker tied for third and fourth fUces with Mir Sultan Khan, of India, W the London congress. In the two tournaments, Kashdan, contested twenty games of which he won eleven, riraw eiffht and lost one. Asked concerning the possibility of a match for the United States championship, held by Frank J. Marshall, of New York, Kashdan said that he was awaiting word from the National Chess Federation as to the method of proceeding witn negotiations, ineraia-Tribune). vranir .T Marshall. United States champion, is back after a month's tour whicn tooic nim as iar as Minnesota. While in Chicago he delivered TTomMnn-'Rircspll trrvnhv won. bv the United States team at Prague to M. S. Kuhns, presiaens oi me national Chess Federation. Mr. Kuhns is interesting himself in the proposed title-match and discussed the matter briefly with Marshall. The latter .,- Viimnslf in readiness to nlav whenever the conditions adopted by the national ooay some tune ago iiave met.
Marshall's tour was most successful and wherever he went genuine enthusiasm was aroused. In the following summary will be found the results of most of his exhibitions: Baltimore, 29-0-0; Wilkes-Barre, 19-0-0; Blng-hamton. 20-2-1; Utica, 14-1-2; Rochester. 28-1-1: Buffalo, 20-1-8; Niagara Falls. 25-0-C: Toronto, 13-2-5; Grand Rapids. 35-0-1; Chicago, first, 20-0-2; Chicago, second, 15-0-1 Chicago, third, 9-1-2; Milwaukee, 27-1-1; Chicago, fourth, 26-5-2; Windsor, Ont., 15-0-1; Buffalo, 20-1-4. Dr. Alexander Alekhine, world's champion, broke the former champion, Jose R. Capablanca's simultaneous record on February 28, in Paris, France. He engaged 300 opponents In a benefit for French war veterans, playing at sixty boards with five players at each board.
The champion won thirty-seven games, drew seventeen and lost six. Capablanca's previous record made possible by H. Helms, editor of the American Chess Bulletin, was made in the Seventh Regiment's Armory. New York City, in 1931. against 200 opponents on fifty boards.
H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, who is now playing in the finals of the Pennsylvania Stste tournament, won the thirteenth game of a ftfteen-game match with the editor. The score is now 7V4-6H to Mr. Hesse's favor.
Frank J. Marshall, United States champion, has awarded the brilliancy Truse in the recent Mercantile Library tbampicjishlp tournament to the game to which Barnie F. Winkelman defeated S. Drasin and the prize for the best played game to the Drasin vs. Levin contest.
viavinff against 20 opponents. Reukfrh Fine, the new champion of tJjMarshall Chess club made a score 17 wins, two draws and one loss at St Washington s Durnaay garnering at the Weehawken Chess Club. The Marshall and Manhattan Chess clubs, sharing the lead In the annual championship series of the Metropolitan Chess League with five straight victories each, scored to fifth round matches. . .
Manhattan defeated New York uni versity. m-H, while Marshall won from Hungarian International by 7-0 with one game adjourned. - The Hungarian Workers registered their fourth victory, defeating the Scandinavians by 5-3. Empire City conquered Staten Island, 5-3, and Gramercy won from Rice Progressives 54-2. The match between West Side and City College resulted to a draw.
'(New York Times). The following Item Is from The Bulletin of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Cincinnati Enquirer: "The most remarkable thing about the chess masters, Including Dr. Alekhine is that they do not look like chess players as novelists' usually Imagine them. "Dr. Alekhine is talL fair-haired, athletic looking and young.
When playing Sultan Khan, one of the most brilliant of the young masters, Or. Alekhine smoked cigarette after cigarette and never took his eyes from the board. Miss Vera Menchlk, the only woman in the world who Is recognised as a chess "master'. Is rosy-cheeked and Jolly. "I play tennis and golf and do a little swimming, too, she confessed to a reporter, 'but chess, which I learned at nine years old, can sometimes he hard work.' " 'My longest game lasted 12 hours and involved 114 moves.
No, I never take any refreshments while playing chess. " This is the fourth game between Kashdan and World's Champion Alek hine and incidentally the fourth draw between these two masters: QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Kanhdan Alkhin Kashdan Alekhlo Problem No, 140 By R. B. Cooke Black 8 Pieces. o u D O Ira San a HI- 83 -0 White 9 Pieces. White to play and mate to two.
