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Chess 15 May 1937, Sat Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. UMMER International master frays are In the offing. Of primary Importance is the announced world team tournament of the International Chess Federation, headed by A. Rueb at The Hague, of which the National Chess Federation, U 8. A., Is the official American unit. From July 31 to August 15 the national federation units will convene at Stockholm, Sweden, for an international congress on the state of chess in the world and incidentally to conduct a team tournament championship in which the several country members will have five-man teams and the ladies will compete for the woman’s chess championship title of the Federation Internationale des Echecs. Recently Mrs. Adele Rivero of Manhattan won the ladies’ chess tournament held at the New York Marshall Chess Club and was awarded a certificate from the N. C. F„ which entitles her to represent that -body in the international ladies’ tournament at Stockholm with all expenses paid. Mrs. Rivero also received custody of the Hazel Allen Trophy, a premier award for feminine chessists, and a gold medal donated by Henry M. Harts home.
Whether she will visit Sweden this Summer and compete in the grand melee is a question that Mrs. Rivero has not resolved. Will Marshall Captain the U. S. Team? ^^T PRAGUE, at Folkestone and at Warsaw.
Frank J. Marshall, eminent American master, captained the American teams that brought back to their homeland on the three separate occasions the team championship of the world, the American players capturing first honors from teams representative of the best that the foreign countries could produce. On three different battlefields the New World demonstrated that the ancient and royal game of chess was not and is not an art that reaches its zenith only In Europe. Today there Is much speculating as to who shall go abroad this Summer to represent Uncle Sam. On the Warsaw team that emerged victorious two years ago there is no vacancy.
Frank Marshall. Reuben Fine, Abraham Kupchik, Arthur W. Dake and Israel Horowitz are available at i this very hour. But will the National Chess Federation Committee, under the chairmanship of Silas W. Howland, president of the Marshall Chess Club in New York City, reindorse the team, I or will he alter the old line-up? Appointed chairman of the Team Committee by M. S. Kuhns of Chicago, who is president of the corporation known since 1927 as the National Chess Federation, U. S. A., Howland has a thankless task. On his shoulders will be the burden of denying the younger masters the privilege of playing in the greatest team tournament the world ever has seen and he will be, per se, in a position to turn thumbs down on some of the outstanding national masters of well-known prestige, for example, Frank Marshall, retired American champion.
Whether she will visit Sweden this Summer and compete in the grand melee is a question that Mrs. Rivero has not resolved. Will Marshall Captain the U. S. Team? ^^T PRAGUE, at Folkestone and at Warsaw.
Frank J. Marshall, eminent American master, captained the American teams that brought back to their homeland on the three separate occasions the team championship of the world, the American players capturing first honors from teams representative of the best that the foreign countries could produce. On three different battlefields the New World demonstrated that the ancient and royal game of chess was not and is not an art that reaches its zenith only In Europe. Today there Is much speculating as to who shall go abroad this Summer to represent Uncle Sam. On the Warsaw team that emerged victorious two years ago there is no vacancy.
Frank Marshall. Reuben Fine, Abraham Kupchik, Arthur W. Dake and Israel Horowitz are available at i this very hour. But will the National Chess Federation Committee, under the chairmanship of Silas W. Howland, president of the Marshall Chess Club in New York City, reindorse the team, I or will he alter the old line-up? Appointed chairman of the Team Committee by M. S. Kuhns of Chicago, who is president of the corporation known since 1927 as the National Chess Federation, U. S. A., Howland has a thankless task. On his shoulders will be the burden of denying the younger masters the privilege of playing in the greatest team tournament the world ever has seen and he will be, per se, in a position to turn thumbs down on some of the outstanding national masters of well-known prestige, for example, Frank Marshall, retired American champion.
