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Chess 03 Nov 1937, Wed Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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By PAUL J. MILLER. Jr. PERHAPS Champion Max Euwe finally has realized that when Challenger Alexander Alekhin, ex-world champion, opens with pawn to queen's fourth square, the proper response is anything other than the Indian defense according to the strategic conception of the great analyst, Nimzowitsch. In the twelfth match game of their series to decide whether Euwe will retain the world title or Alekhin shall regain it, the latter essayed the queen’s pawn opening and Euwe countered with the Indian defense, thus duplicating his piay in the eighth and tenth games of the current battle.
The defense was inadequate and after a series of exchanges a draw was agreed on. In the eighth and tenth games Euwe lost decisively. Undoubtedly Alekhin is versed deeply in the Indian defense and has a keener insight Into tactics than Euwe. The score to date: Alekhin, 5; Euwe, 2; 5 games drawn. Game No. 13 of the series of 30 will be played today at Amsterdam. Chess Ac a Career. CHESS as a career is the very depth of folly. For the last 10 years or so it has been my No. 1 amusement but when I think of the disappointments and heartaches and little financial gain that chess has to offer the first-class professional, I literally shudder at the idea of chess as a vocation.
Chess is to be encouraged as a pastime, as the athletic* of the mind, as a game conducive to development of memory, analytical ability, and fortnight. But chess should not be regarded as an end in itself, but, even as “beauty is its own excuse for being,” so likewise chess has come down to us during a period of 5,000 years simply as man's most intellectual amusement. Now Walter P. James, as editor of the Correspondence Chess League of America since January, 1933, has built the league from the meager membership of 81 to approximately 500 active postal players in the United States, publishing the mo6t artistic chess mimeograph bimonthly magazine in the world. Today James says he would make chess his career and devote full time to advancing interests of the “game of kings.” He would have a monthly periodical; he would give the fans the “best, biggest, finest—the cream of the chess world.” Have you heard theae expressions before? Do you know some 37-odd cheaa columnists and 5 magaiines are trying to do this very thing in America today? In England alone there are 70 chess columnists and half a dozen of the better class of chess periodicals.
In Europe chess editors are as numerous as lawyers in Washington, and the Continent swarms with chess "pubs” par excellence. James should turn again to oil painting as his life’s work. There his talents will command the respect of the famous and the wealthy and material success awaits. Let no youngster who reads this column dwell on chess as a career. A most enjoyable and stimulating hobby is chess, but little moss comes with the yean—only an increasing cultural polish.
The defense was inadequate and after a series of exchanges a draw was agreed on. In the eighth and tenth games Euwe lost decisively. Undoubtedly Alekhin is versed deeply in the Indian defense and has a keener insight Into tactics than Euwe. The score to date: Alekhin, 5; Euwe, 2; 5 games drawn. Game No. 13 of the series of 30 will be played today at Amsterdam. Chess Ac a Career. CHESS as a career is the very depth of folly. For the last 10 years or so it has been my No. 1 amusement but when I think of the disappointments and heartaches and little financial gain that chess has to offer the first-class professional, I literally shudder at the idea of chess as a vocation.
Chess is to be encouraged as a pastime, as the athletic* of the mind, as a game conducive to development of memory, analytical ability, and fortnight. But chess should not be regarded as an end in itself, but, even as “beauty is its own excuse for being,” so likewise chess has come down to us during a period of 5,000 years simply as man's most intellectual amusement. Now Walter P. James, as editor of the Correspondence Chess League of America since January, 1933, has built the league from the meager membership of 81 to approximately 500 active postal players in the United States, publishing the mo6t artistic chess mimeograph bimonthly magazine in the world. Today James says he would make chess his career and devote full time to advancing interests of the “game of kings.” He would have a monthly periodical; he would give the fans the “best, biggest, finest—the cream of the chess world.” Have you heard theae expressions before? Do you know some 37-odd cheaa columnists and 5 magaiines are trying to do this very thing in America today? In England alone there are 70 chess columnists and half a dozen of the better class of chess periodicals.
In Europe chess editors are as numerous as lawyers in Washington, and the Continent swarms with chess "pubs” par excellence. James should turn again to oil painting as his life’s work. There his talents will command the respect of the famous and the wealthy and material success awaits. Let no youngster who reads this column dwell on chess as a career. A most enjoyable and stimulating hobby is chess, but little moss comes with the yean—only an increasing cultural polish.
