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Chess 19 May 1937, Wed Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. Jr. CLASS day program at George Washington University, according to President Mahmood Taher of the Omar Khayyam Chess Club, is a very heavy one, and so the presentation of the college chess championship trophy by Dr. Cloyd Marvin will be postponed until around June 2.
Meantime the trophy has been returned to the jewelers for engraving. The name of the first university champion to be etched on the award will be George Derr, who probably will succeed Taher as president of the O, K. Chess Club next year. Morphyites Issue Challenge. ^/JAX KESSLER, energetic chess director of the reorganized Paul Morphy Chess Club, has challenged the Washington Social Chess Divan to an interclub tourney.
Officers of the divan have made no comment. It was not the intent of the divan to enter into any interclub play, for the divan membership comes from all clubs and chess groups in the District. For the divan membership to engage in interclub matches will mean that an understanding must be reached as to how players that belong to more than one chess organization shall be classified. Some of the better players are affiliated with as many as four separate and distinct local chess units. It is said the Paul Morphy Chess Club has ruled that its members shall play with the club in interclub frays or not at all.
Such a ruling will make it altogether irrational for the divan to engage in any matches. The ruling would exclude Simon Naidel, J. B. Eskin, R. G. Morrisette, R. S. MacCready, Earl Kunkle and V. L. Eaton—to name a few who possess membership in more than one chess club.
Exhibit at Social Cheas Lounge. GUNDRY prints of chess play and art prints of the royal game will be on display at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel, 1336 I street northwest, Thursday night at 8 o'clock, and the chess editor of The Star will give a brief, informal lecture on the “Official Code or Laws of Chess.” as approved by the International Chess Federation in 1929. No chess study on the market contains these official rules except Mitchell's “A Guide to the Game of Chess.” The 1929 code eliminates the king penalty which existed in the American chess code of 1890. Thursday evening at the Social Chess Lounge Is “open house” for every one. No fee for the exhibit or address.
Ladies are cordially invited to visit the lounge. After the lecture players will participate in a rotary chess tourney— each playing as many opponents as possible—the winner to receive a modern chess book. Montrose Chess Club is interested in five-man team matches. It issues a general challenge. Bookings may be arranged by writing the Metropolitan Chess Association, Parkside Hotel.
Meantime the trophy has been returned to the jewelers for engraving. The name of the first university champion to be etched on the award will be George Derr, who probably will succeed Taher as president of the O, K. Chess Club next year. Morphyites Issue Challenge. ^/JAX KESSLER, energetic chess director of the reorganized Paul Morphy Chess Club, has challenged the Washington Social Chess Divan to an interclub tourney.
Officers of the divan have made no comment. It was not the intent of the divan to enter into any interclub play, for the divan membership comes from all clubs and chess groups in the District. For the divan membership to engage in interclub matches will mean that an understanding must be reached as to how players that belong to more than one chess organization shall be classified. Some of the better players are affiliated with as many as four separate and distinct local chess units. It is said the Paul Morphy Chess Club has ruled that its members shall play with the club in interclub frays or not at all.
Such a ruling will make it altogether irrational for the divan to engage in any matches. The ruling would exclude Simon Naidel, J. B. Eskin, R. G. Morrisette, R. S. MacCready, Earl Kunkle and V. L. Eaton—to name a few who possess membership in more than one chess club.
Exhibit at Social Cheas Lounge. GUNDRY prints of chess play and art prints of the royal game will be on display at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel, 1336 I street northwest, Thursday night at 8 o'clock, and the chess editor of The Star will give a brief, informal lecture on the “Official Code or Laws of Chess.” as approved by the International Chess Federation in 1929. No chess study on the market contains these official rules except Mitchell's “A Guide to the Game of Chess.” The 1929 code eliminates the king penalty which existed in the American chess code of 1890. Thursday evening at the Social Chess Lounge Is “open house” for every one. No fee for the exhibit or address.
Ladies are cordially invited to visit the lounge. After the lecture players will participate in a rotary chess tourney— each playing as many opponents as possible—the winner to receive a modern chess book. Montrose Chess Club is interested in five-man team matches. It issues a general challenge. Bookings may be arranged by writing the Metropolitan Chess Association, Parkside Hotel.
