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Chess 25 Sep 1937, Sat Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. JR. CHESS clocks are moet essential for formal tournament play and in this country apparently only one or two firms manufacture these special game timepieces. Perchance a reader of this column is aware a chess clock manufacturer that' produces an economical product.
If so. please advise, as the Metropolitan Chess Association has immediate need of several. Tomorrow’s column in The Star will carry details concerning the special 3-point program of tournament activity announced by Simon Naidel, tournament director of the Washington Social Chess Divan. The interesting characteristic of this tournament plan evolved by Naidel is that it is adaptable to the needs of any chess club in the District or elsewhere where the membership averages at least 30 players. /"'ENERAL tourney play under the 3-point program probably will be every Tuesday evening at the Parkside Hotel.
The major tournament for the championship is scheduled for Saturday evenings, with alternate play on Thursdays. The official meeting of the membership of the Divan is every Wednesday, 8 p.m., 1336 I street northwest at the Social Chess Lounge. Any chess club or group In the District may hold private club meetings at the Social Cheea Lounge on any night other than Wednesday by arrangement with the director, District 3230. VLTITH the torrid days of September practically over, the evenings are more conducive to chess-play as Is evidenced by the swelling of the Divan’s membership recently by the addition of 14 new members, bringing the active list to a total of 54, the largest exclusive chess “club” in the District. John W. Dubin and Lewis R. Lang have become loyal boosters of the Divan. , Shortly, G. B. Jones moves to Baltimore while L. Paul Miller departs from the city for a prolonged stay, thus sapping the Divan of two splendid players. Teams C and D in the quintet battle are forging slowly through their schedule, present scoring being 30%— 12%. Robert Feeney and William Reynolds are neck and neck for honors in the quintet play-off, the winner to sit in with the Clsss A veterans in the forthcoming Major Tournament for the Divan championship. Norval Wigglnton, chess director of the W. s. C. D„ is a bit Jittery nowadays as Sir Stork may pause at tha Wiggnf&vn mansion any hour. Ah, the suspense.
If so. please advise, as the Metropolitan Chess Association has immediate need of several. Tomorrow’s column in The Star will carry details concerning the special 3-point program of tournament activity announced by Simon Naidel, tournament director of the Washington Social Chess Divan. The interesting characteristic of this tournament plan evolved by Naidel is that it is adaptable to the needs of any chess club in the District or elsewhere where the membership averages at least 30 players. /"'ENERAL tourney play under the 3-point program probably will be every Tuesday evening at the Parkside Hotel.
The major tournament for the championship is scheduled for Saturday evenings, with alternate play on Thursdays. The official meeting of the membership of the Divan is every Wednesday, 8 p.m., 1336 I street northwest at the Social Chess Lounge. Any chess club or group In the District may hold private club meetings at the Social Cheea Lounge on any night other than Wednesday by arrangement with the director, District 3230. VLTITH the torrid days of September practically over, the evenings are more conducive to chess-play as Is evidenced by the swelling of the Divan’s membership recently by the addition of 14 new members, bringing the active list to a total of 54, the largest exclusive chess “club” in the District. John W. Dubin and Lewis R. Lang have become loyal boosters of the Divan. , Shortly, G. B. Jones moves to Baltimore while L. Paul Miller departs from the city for a prolonged stay, thus sapping the Divan of two splendid players. Teams C and D in the quintet battle are forging slowly through their schedule, present scoring being 30%— 12%. Robert Feeney and William Reynolds are neck and neck for honors in the quintet play-off, the winner to sit in with the Clsss A veterans in the forthcoming Major Tournament for the Divan championship. Norval Wigglnton, chess director of the W. s. C. D„ is a bit Jittery nowadays as Sir Stork may pause at tha Wiggnf&vn mansion any hour. Ah, the suspense.
