Chess 18 Oct 1937, Mon Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. WILLIAM REYNOLDS, former president and champion of the Intcrhigh Chess Association, now is a “fresh" at George Washington University, but the sharp transition in academic endeavor has not marred his chess skill one whit, as the clash between him and Walter Jacobs, erstwhile problem editor of Chess Review Magazine, for the championship of the Social Chess Divan resulted in a beautiful victory for young Reynolds. It was one of those games where the onlooker sat back and speculated to no avail, the players unconcernedly moving their men into positions that elicit stifled groans and baffled glances from would-be kibitzers. Jacobs offered an exchange which brought the endgame to the stage where controversy still reigned—Which is the stronger, a queen and a knight, or two rooks and a knight? Possibly the New Yorker underestimated his college adversary, for Reynolds doubled his rooks, threatened the exchange of a rook for a queen and Jacobs gracefully resigned.
As V. Colonna says—"It was one of them there games worth seeing.” Saturday, other clashes for the Divan championship—the most coveted club title in the District, as the Divan possesses by far the strongest aggregation of local chess players—are scheduled between Simon Naidel, C. C. Bettinger, Walter Jacobs, William Reynolds, Anton and Carl Hesse and Robert J. Feeney.
Tournament Enters Round 3. VV'LNFRED HORN, who is serving in '' the capacity of assistant tournament director to Naidel, announces a third section of players in the general tournament of the Divan, late entries being seeded into the new section. New entries will be accepted tomorrow night at 8 o'clock as the general tou wament advances to round No. 3, matches being played at the Tarkside Hotel. In the “odds’’ section of the tourney the scoring is: j J. W. Dubin-1 v. Colonna_o ! J. Skeffington . . . 1 Henry Reil . _ O : R. J. Fuglister-i Jos Cbmielewski. n 1 Maud Sewall -0 E. E. Williams .. 1 I D. E. Bland 1 F. W. F. Gleason 0 1 “Even” section tallies arc*: | W. L- Eljedge .. 0 Raymond Lewis _ 1 j C?. U. Thompson O Vincent Saporito - 1 Morris Appelbaum n Winfred Horn . ] i Conrad Willnich » J. G. Fairchild-- 1 Alekhin Again Ties Euwe.
AT. HAARLEM, the Netherlands, Alexander Alekhin, ex-world champion, defeated Max Euwe, world champion, in the sixth game of their series for the universal chess brown, the Franco-Russian master opening with pawn to queen's fourth square to encounter the Slav defense by the Amsterdam mathematics professor, Euwe. After Alekhin’s sixth move, a surprise one devoid of the orthodox. Euwe pondered 40 minutes before replying, and on the twenty-third move he resigned. The series now stands: Euwe, 3; Alekhin, 3, the breakdown being two wins for each player and two draws.
Tomorrow the grand masters Joust at Rotterdam.
As V. Colonna says—"It was one of them there games worth seeing.” Saturday, other clashes for the Divan championship—the most coveted club title in the District, as the Divan possesses by far the strongest aggregation of local chess players—are scheduled between Simon Naidel, C. C. Bettinger, Walter Jacobs, William Reynolds, Anton and Carl Hesse and Robert J. Feeney.
Tournament Enters Round 3. VV'LNFRED HORN, who is serving in '' the capacity of assistant tournament director to Naidel, announces a third section of players in the general tournament of the Divan, late entries being seeded into the new section. New entries will be accepted tomorrow night at 8 o'clock as the general tou wament advances to round No. 3, matches being played at the Tarkside Hotel. In the “odds’’ section of the tourney the scoring is: j J. W. Dubin-1 v. Colonna_o ! J. Skeffington . . . 1 Henry Reil . _ O : R. J. Fuglister-i Jos Cbmielewski. n 1 Maud Sewall -0 E. E. Williams .. 1 I D. E. Bland 1 F. W. F. Gleason 0 1 “Even” section tallies arc*: | W. L- Eljedge .. 0 Raymond Lewis _ 1 j C?. U. Thompson O Vincent Saporito - 1 Morris Appelbaum n Winfred Horn . ] i Conrad Willnich » J. G. Fairchild-- 1 Alekhin Again Ties Euwe.
AT. HAARLEM, the Netherlands, Alexander Alekhin, ex-world champion, defeated Max Euwe, world champion, in the sixth game of their series for the universal chess brown, the Franco-Russian master opening with pawn to queen's fourth square to encounter the Slav defense by the Amsterdam mathematics professor, Euwe. After Alekhin’s sixth move, a surprise one devoid of the orthodox. Euwe pondered 40 minutes before replying, and on the twenty-third move he resigned. The series now stands: Euwe, 3; Alekhin, 3, the breakdown being two wins for each player and two draws.
Tomorrow the grand masters Joust at Rotterdam.
