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Chess 17 May 1937, Mon Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. Montrose chess club is seeking a match with any five-man team In the city. Paul Hodges, the foremost player in the Montrose aggregation, declares that although his club may not have the large following some of the other District clubs possess, it does have quality players and wishes to take on a few quintets now. Bookings for a match with the Montrose club may be arranged by writing the president of the Metropolitan Chess Association, Parkside Hotel.
For current interclub tourneys the facilities of the Social Chess Lounge will be available at no cost to actual players on the competing teams. Morphy C. C. Initiates Tourney. TWENTY-ONE oneeslsts are competing for the championship of the Paul Morphy Chees Club In an Intraclub fray Initiated on May 13.
Player* are bracketed Into two classes, A. and B. In the A elaae are 4 veteran*, with 14 enthuaiaat* seeded in the B clast. The scoring after the first intraclub round: CLASS A DOUBLE ROUND ROBIN. W L.
Naldel___1V4 V4 Kessler_1 o Neufeld _ Va 1V4 Eaton _0 1 CLASS B. SINGLE ROUND ROBIN. W. L. W.
L. MacCready. 2 0 Kunltle_ '/a Gallant 1V4 Vi Rhodes- i Vi Dunn _1 0 Benjamin.. Vi lVi Sutphen_ 1 0 Camden_0 1 Bard_ 1 1 Eskln -0 1 Bennett_1 1 Saporlto_0 1 Thompson_1 1 Mayer-0 I Social Rally at Divan. QPEN house for all chess fans in the District la announced for this Thursday night, at 8 o’clock, at the Social Chess Lounfo.
18)6 I stmt northwest, by the Washington Social Chess Divan. Intradivan matches will be featured and a rotary tourney conducted— players playing as many opponents as passible between 8:80 and 11 pm., the high soorer to receive a modem chess book as first prize. Preceding the rotary tourney will be a brief lecture and an Informal exhibit of rare chess pictures and chess prints. No fees will be charged any one. The entertainment is merely part of the policy of the divan to encourage beginners and tyros and give the general public the opportunity of acquiring an appreciation of the art and science of chess.
The chess editor of The Evening Star will sponsor the educational exhibits. Ladies are welcome. # _ Marshall Vindicates Himself. UE ABDICATED his throne as premier chess play«r in the United States that a younger man might have the honor he had enjoyed for a quarter of a century. The “wise boys” said he was through.
But when Frank Marshall successfully met the strongest players the New York Marshall Chess Club embraced in Its very high-grade membership, he proved conclusively that he has a brand of chess that still is of grandmaster caliber. Marshall won the club championship. Theodore Dunst and Milton Hanauar Awed Moood and third honor
For current interclub tourneys the facilities of the Social Chess Lounge will be available at no cost to actual players on the competing teams. Morphy C. C. Initiates Tourney. TWENTY-ONE oneeslsts are competing for the championship of the Paul Morphy Chees Club In an Intraclub fray Initiated on May 13.
Player* are bracketed Into two classes, A. and B. In the A elaae are 4 veteran*, with 14 enthuaiaat* seeded in the B clast. The scoring after the first intraclub round: CLASS A DOUBLE ROUND ROBIN. W L.
Naldel___1V4 V4 Kessler_1 o Neufeld _ Va 1V4 Eaton _0 1 CLASS B. SINGLE ROUND ROBIN. W. L. W.
L. MacCready. 2 0 Kunltle_ '/a Gallant 1V4 Vi Rhodes- i Vi Dunn _1 0 Benjamin.. Vi lVi Sutphen_ 1 0 Camden_0 1 Bard_ 1 1 Eskln -0 1 Bennett_1 1 Saporlto_0 1 Thompson_1 1 Mayer-0 I Social Rally at Divan. QPEN house for all chess fans in the District la announced for this Thursday night, at 8 o’clock, at the Social Chess Lounfo.
18)6 I stmt northwest, by the Washington Social Chess Divan. Intradivan matches will be featured and a rotary tourney conducted— players playing as many opponents as passible between 8:80 and 11 pm., the high soorer to receive a modem chess book as first prize. Preceding the rotary tourney will be a brief lecture and an Informal exhibit of rare chess pictures and chess prints. No fees will be charged any one. The entertainment is merely part of the policy of the divan to encourage beginners and tyros and give the general public the opportunity of acquiring an appreciation of the art and science of chess.
The chess editor of The Evening Star will sponsor the educational exhibits. Ladies are welcome. # _ Marshall Vindicates Himself. UE ABDICATED his throne as premier chess play«r in the United States that a younger man might have the honor he had enjoyed for a quarter of a century. The “wise boys” said he was through.
But when Frank Marshall successfully met the strongest players the New York Marshall Chess Club embraced in Its very high-grade membership, he proved conclusively that he has a brand of chess that still is of grandmaster caliber. Marshall won the club championship. Theodore Dunst and Milton Hanauar Awed Moood and third honor
