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Chess 15 Nov 1937, Mon Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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By PAUL J. MILLER. Jr. America's Authority on Social Chess. Champion Euwe Is Baffled. TWO years ago when Prof. Max Euwe of Amsterdam wrested the universal chess title from the Franco-Russian grandmaster. Alexander Alekhin, by the Indecisive score of a single game, the world fans saw their Idol toppled from his exalted throne with mingled feelings of distrust and bewilderment— for It was thought that Alekhin was unbeatable. But chess champions are like the leaders in other recreational activities. The years take thelr toll in physical endurance and youth advances to the front.
Euwe by virtue of his virility rather than his understanding of chess became the world champion—the scales being unbalanced by exactly one game, which certainly isn't the way a champion should be bom in chessdom. In the present return match aeries of 30 games Euwe Is baffled by the canniness of his adversary. He finds a coo), collected, “buttermilk dieting” Alekhin who smokes only occasionally, if at all. as contrasted with the swashbuckling, cocksure, self-indulgent character of two years ago who smoked incessantly, who played chess under a high nervous tension. The cloture of the fifteenth game at Rotterdam was a draw.
The standing: Alekhin, 6; Euwe, 3: draw, g. The sixteenth game is scheduled also for Rotterdam. Game NO. 3: SI.AV DEFENSE. (Queen i Gambit.) White.
Black. White. Black. S“w». Alekhine
FxP 27 B‘B4 ,,r*wn World Chews Champions. ^MERICAN chessists differ as to who have merited rightfully the title of chess champion of the United States. • The situation hi even more controversial when world champions are considered prior to the secession of Wilhelm Steinita, in IMi, Here is the world championship "scroll of fame,” according to the scholarly British magazine. Chess, edited by Baruch H. Wood, M. 8c. •WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS. 1A70-75 Rnr Loses __Sosln 1575-87 Leonards_Heir 1622-34 Groce _Hair 1747-95 Fhllldar .. France IAIA-20 Deschapelle*_France 1820-40 Labourdonnals_ France 1S43-A1 Staunton . __England I8AI-A8 Anderssen_Germany 1 HAS-AO Marshy _ V.
S. A. IS62-66 Anderasen _Germany 1866-04 Steinita _ .. _ Austria 1894-1021 Ematuel Lasker_Germany 1921-27 Caeablanra __ Cuba 1927-35 Alekhin __ France 193A- Ettwe . Holland •The enumeration given does not express my personal convictions.
Social Chess Who's Who. pLOYD WIRSING. bom May 3. 1906. at Pork, Md., after an excellent career In the secondary schools of his native town, entered the University of Maryland to prepare for a vocation in science, specializing in chemistry to receive the B. S. degree in 1928. Scholarly inclined, Wirsing continued graduate study at the University of Virginia, obtaining 'the master of science degree in chemistry in 1930 and rsTstvinD *n election to Alpha Chi Sigma, national chemical fraternity. Since 1931, when he accepted the position of! instruct or in chemistry at Eastern High School, Prof.: Wirsing has made Washington h i s home. Pond of travel. I n.,d Wir,m*. P,rof Wirsing and ! his attractve wife, | nee Mary McDonald of Waycross, | Ga., have trekked all over the State* I east of the Mississippi, from Canada! to Florida. While attending the University of i Virginia, Prof. Wirsing was taught the ; elements of chess by a friend, and pre- I fers variations of the King’s Pawn Opening to close positions. Lightning chess or 10-second chess he finds a refreshing stimulant when he is not busy with his stamp collecting. At Eastern Hirh School Prof. Wirsing serves In the triple capacity of faculty adviser to the tennis, chemistry and chess clubs, respectively. Believing that chess is the finest form of mental recreation, he encourages it* play at every opportunity among the Eastern students, having developed a club of over 20 active members, with two special classes in elementary instruction, one for the boy* and the other exclusively for girls.
Loyal to the organized chess program of the Metropolitan Chess Association, he plans to have a strong entry in the interhigh chess tournament and to win the District championship for Eastern. Says Prof. Floyd Wirsing: "Chess has no peer for the development of clearminded thinking." Cheas Problem No. lit. By G HEATHCOTE Social Cheat Quarterly.
BLACK—1. MEN. WHITE—« MEN. While le Play end Mete in Tea. CHINKMAN'S neat two-mover, No. 108. dissembles before the waiting move, P-Q3. v Those who tally three points are C. V. Moore, George F. Gorham. J. E Cowling. Raymond W. Lewis lit on No 107. alsoi; W. F. Cook. Gerald M. Clemence Stephen J. Kurtz. Guy Smith, navld H. Slbbet. 1. W. Allen A. G. Dreyer (am trying 10 obtain the medals now>: C. D Franks (take a ahower. C. D.': Norman Le Roux. William Burko and Reuben Suttkuv Singles belall .1 G. Wright. Emanuel Simpson. • Gorgonzola" end Daniel Breeskin Reconsidering No. 102 and the possibility of a "cook" by the move. R-K2. does not Black’s reply. R-QB4 prevent a "cook?" What say. Anton Hesse? And all you other advocates of R-K2??! Chesspourri.
TNTERHIGH CHESS ASSOCIATION delegates from affiliated clubs of Western. Eastern, Roosevelt, Central and Tech will meet today week, 3 p.m., Parkside Hotel, to launch the j winter tournament . . . Sol Breeskin. I secretary, expects a record turnout j . . . William Reynolds and Robert Knox have yet to settle their differences for the "Y” medal over the chessboard ... A theoretical win is ever a victory to be despised . . . WANTED! Some enthusiastic player to give occasional instruction to a boys' group at the Cerftral Y. M. C. A. during the evenings . . . And the Social Chess Divan also wants 100 active members by Christmas.
As a chess fan you should visit the Social Chess Lounge, 1338 I street northwest, and lend your support to a worthy cause—organized chess ... A beautiful set of ivory chessmen, Chinese pattern, attracts the eye in a certain Thirteenth street store . . . Tis said Barnie P. Winkelman. Philadelphia chess author, has produced a real work on Rockefeller . . , Staunton, while English champion, authored several treatises on Shakespeare. 'Copyright. Nov. 14. 1937. by Paul Miller.
Euwe by virtue of his virility rather than his understanding of chess became the world champion—the scales being unbalanced by exactly one game, which certainly isn't the way a champion should be bom in chessdom. In the present return match aeries of 30 games Euwe Is baffled by the canniness of his adversary. He finds a coo), collected, “buttermilk dieting” Alekhin who smokes only occasionally, if at all. as contrasted with the swashbuckling, cocksure, self-indulgent character of two years ago who smoked incessantly, who played chess under a high nervous tension. The cloture of the fifteenth game at Rotterdam was a draw.
The standing: Alekhin, 6; Euwe, 3: draw, g. The sixteenth game is scheduled also for Rotterdam. Game NO. 3: SI.AV DEFENSE. (Queen i Gambit.) White.
Black. White. Black. S“w». Alekhine
FxP 27 B‘B4 ,,r*wn World Chews Champions. ^MERICAN chessists differ as to who have merited rightfully the title of chess champion of the United States. • The situation hi even more controversial when world champions are considered prior to the secession of Wilhelm Steinita, in IMi, Here is the world championship "scroll of fame,” according to the scholarly British magazine. Chess, edited by Baruch H. Wood, M. 8c. •WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS. 1A70-75 Rnr Loses __Sosln 1575-87 Leonards_Heir 1622-34 Groce _Hair 1747-95 Fhllldar .. France IAIA-20 Deschapelle*_France 1820-40 Labourdonnals_ France 1S43-A1 Staunton . __England I8AI-A8 Anderssen_Germany 1 HAS-AO Marshy _ V.
S. A. IS62-66 Anderasen _Germany 1866-04 Steinita _ .. _ Austria 1894-1021 Ematuel Lasker_Germany 1921-27 Caeablanra __ Cuba 1927-35 Alekhin __ France 193A- Ettwe . Holland •The enumeration given does not express my personal convictions.
Social Chess Who's Who. pLOYD WIRSING. bom May 3. 1906. at Pork, Md., after an excellent career In the secondary schools of his native town, entered the University of Maryland to prepare for a vocation in science, specializing in chemistry to receive the B. S. degree in 1928. Scholarly inclined, Wirsing continued graduate study at the University of Virginia, obtaining 'the master of science degree in chemistry in 1930 and rsTstvinD *n election to Alpha Chi Sigma, national chemical fraternity. Since 1931, when he accepted the position of! instruct or in chemistry at Eastern High School, Prof.: Wirsing has made Washington h i s home. Pond of travel. I n.,d Wir,m*. P,rof Wirsing and ! his attractve wife, | nee Mary McDonald of Waycross, | Ga., have trekked all over the State* I east of the Mississippi, from Canada! to Florida. While attending the University of i Virginia, Prof. Wirsing was taught the ; elements of chess by a friend, and pre- I fers variations of the King’s Pawn Opening to close positions. Lightning chess or 10-second chess he finds a refreshing stimulant when he is not busy with his stamp collecting. At Eastern Hirh School Prof. Wirsing serves In the triple capacity of faculty adviser to the tennis, chemistry and chess clubs, respectively. Believing that chess is the finest form of mental recreation, he encourages it* play at every opportunity among the Eastern students, having developed a club of over 20 active members, with two special classes in elementary instruction, one for the boy* and the other exclusively for girls.
Loyal to the organized chess program of the Metropolitan Chess Association, he plans to have a strong entry in the interhigh chess tournament and to win the District championship for Eastern. Says Prof. Floyd Wirsing: "Chess has no peer for the development of clearminded thinking." Cheas Problem No. lit. By G HEATHCOTE Social Cheat Quarterly.
BLACK—1. MEN. WHITE—« MEN. While le Play end Mete in Tea. CHINKMAN'S neat two-mover, No. 108. dissembles before the waiting move, P-Q3. v Those who tally three points are C. V. Moore, George F. Gorham. J. E Cowling. Raymond W. Lewis lit on No 107. alsoi; W. F. Cook. Gerald M. Clemence Stephen J. Kurtz. Guy Smith, navld H. Slbbet. 1. W. Allen A. G. Dreyer (am trying 10 obtain the medals now>: C. D Franks (take a ahower. C. D.': Norman Le Roux. William Burko and Reuben Suttkuv Singles belall .1 G. Wright. Emanuel Simpson. • Gorgonzola" end Daniel Breeskin Reconsidering No. 102 and the possibility of a "cook" by the move. R-K2. does not Black’s reply. R-QB4 prevent a "cook?" What say. Anton Hesse? And all you other advocates of R-K2??! Chesspourri.
TNTERHIGH CHESS ASSOCIATION delegates from affiliated clubs of Western. Eastern, Roosevelt, Central and Tech will meet today week, 3 p.m., Parkside Hotel, to launch the j winter tournament . . . Sol Breeskin. I secretary, expects a record turnout j . . . William Reynolds and Robert Knox have yet to settle their differences for the "Y” medal over the chessboard ... A theoretical win is ever a victory to be despised . . . WANTED! Some enthusiastic player to give occasional instruction to a boys' group at the Cerftral Y. M. C. A. during the evenings . . . And the Social Chess Divan also wants 100 active members by Christmas.
As a chess fan you should visit the Social Chess Lounge, 1338 I street northwest, and lend your support to a worthy cause—organized chess ... A beautiful set of ivory chessmen, Chinese pattern, attracts the eye in a certain Thirteenth street store . . . Tis said Barnie P. Winkelman. Philadelphia chess author, has produced a real work on Rockefeller . . , Staunton, while English champion, authored several treatises on Shakespeare. 'Copyright. Nov. 14. 1937. by Paul Miller.
