Chess 02 Oct 1937, Sat Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. JR. MATCH play for the general tournament of the Washington Social Chess Divan will begin Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Parkside Hotel, according to Director Simon Naidel.
Final rules are being drafted and the mast irryoortant one is that the laws of chess as approved by the American Chess Federation will govern all play. The divan championship tourney opens a week from today and any player may enter provided he can qualify by displacing one of the present six entries in a three-match series. District Team Championship. A LEXANDER STURGES, chairman of the District Championship Team Committee of the Metropolitan Chess Association, has designated the following as members of the Team Credentials Committee: Roland G. Morrisette, Procurement Division Chess Club; Earle Kunkle, Paul Morphy C. C.; Maud G. Sewall, Ladies’ Chess Club; Marcel Propper, Government Printing Office; Norval P. Wigginton, Social Chess Divan; Robert Hostler, Interhigh Chess Association, and Prof. Paul Miller, Metropolitan Chess Association president, ex officio. The Credentials Committee will determine the respective membership of every chess team entry and where a player is a member of several clubs rule on the question of which club he shall represent in formal play.
Match play commences next Friday, Parkside Hotel. Keres Outpoints Capablanca. T3AUL KERES, Estonian chess marvel, at the age of 21, has wron the international masters' tournament at Semmering, Austria, by the score of 9—5. Opposing Keres were Jose Capablanca, ex-world champion; Samuel Reshevsky, United States champion; Salo Flohr, champion of Czechoslovakia, and Reuben Pine, Western Chess Association champion, among others. Although the youthful Estonian played brilliant at the opening of the Austrian congress, he drew several games at the end and barely edged ahead of Fine.
The individual score; Total. W. L. D. W.
L. Keres _ft 2 ft P 6 l Fine _ 2 0 12 8 ft i Capablanca _2 1 3 1 7'a «Mi ! Reshevsky _4 3 7 7Vi «Vi 1 Flohr _2 2 10 7 7 Eliskases _3 f> ft ft 8 Ragosin _ 2 4 8 ft 8 Petrow _2ft ft 5 0 Cheospourri. pLEMENTARY rules of the game of chess will be explained by the chess editor of The Star, Monday evening. 8 o’clock. Social Chess Lounge, 1336 I street northwest.
Visitors are .aw i cents. Roland G. Morrisette, leader of the Procurement Division Chess Club, is busy planning the club's Fall activities. Paul Morphy Chess Club has resumed Its weekly Thursday meetings. Ely Culbertson is now publishing.
Game's Digest that has a chess section i edited by Prank K. Perkins.
Final rules are being drafted and the mast irryoortant one is that the laws of chess as approved by the American Chess Federation will govern all play. The divan championship tourney opens a week from today and any player may enter provided he can qualify by displacing one of the present six entries in a three-match series. District Team Championship. A LEXANDER STURGES, chairman of the District Championship Team Committee of the Metropolitan Chess Association, has designated the following as members of the Team Credentials Committee: Roland G. Morrisette, Procurement Division Chess Club; Earle Kunkle, Paul Morphy C. C.; Maud G. Sewall, Ladies’ Chess Club; Marcel Propper, Government Printing Office; Norval P. Wigginton, Social Chess Divan; Robert Hostler, Interhigh Chess Association, and Prof. Paul Miller, Metropolitan Chess Association president, ex officio. The Credentials Committee will determine the respective membership of every chess team entry and where a player is a member of several clubs rule on the question of which club he shall represent in formal play.
Match play commences next Friday, Parkside Hotel. Keres Outpoints Capablanca. T3AUL KERES, Estonian chess marvel, at the age of 21, has wron the international masters' tournament at Semmering, Austria, by the score of 9—5. Opposing Keres were Jose Capablanca, ex-world champion; Samuel Reshevsky, United States champion; Salo Flohr, champion of Czechoslovakia, and Reuben Pine, Western Chess Association champion, among others. Although the youthful Estonian played brilliant at the opening of the Austrian congress, he drew several games at the end and barely edged ahead of Fine.
The individual score; Total. W. L. D. W.
L. Keres _ft 2 ft P 6 l Fine _ 2 0 12 8 ft i Capablanca _2 1 3 1 7'a «Mi ! Reshevsky _4 3 7 7Vi «Vi 1 Flohr _2 2 10 7 7 Eliskases _3 f> ft ft 8 Ragosin _ 2 4 8 ft 8 Petrow _2ft ft 5 0 Cheospourri. pLEMENTARY rules of the game of chess will be explained by the chess editor of The Star, Monday evening. 8 o’clock. Social Chess Lounge, 1336 I street northwest.
Visitors are .aw i cents. Roland G. Morrisette, leader of the Procurement Division Chess Club, is busy planning the club's Fall activities. Paul Morphy Chess Club has resumed Its weekly Thursday meetings. Ely Culbertson is now publishing.
Game's Digest that has a chess section i edited by Prank K. Perkins.
