Word: bogoljubow
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...with White opens with the king's pawn move, the Black player has become increasingly wary about countering with the same reply.? So most of the games will probably start on the queen's side of the board, and there will be a great many drawn games. Possibly Bogoljubow, who has an enterprising style that overwhelms weak players, will finish ahead of Capablanca, who plays cautiously against everyone and thus, though hardly ever beaten, draws against opponents whom Bugoljubow is likely to beat...
...puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, all the international Masters were entered. Dr. Alekhine was a spectator; did not play because next month he has a world's championship match with E. D. Bogoljubow and did not wish to exert himself too strenuously. Challenger Bogoljubow, however, had no such inhibition...
Last week at Bad Kissingen, Germany, E. D. Bogoljubow, onetime Russian chess champion, paced the floor while he awaited his opponent's move. When Dr. Max Euwe of Holland made his move and pushed the handle on the timepiece that began eating up the seconds allotted to Bogoljubow, the latter made no lunge for the seat which he had vacated. In his mind the board was quite as clear as though he had it placed before him. He was not worried. All he needed was a draw to win first place in the International Grand Masters Tournament, to repeat...
...champion, rugged, cigar-smoking Frank James Marshall had started well, but finished only seventh. José R. Capablanca, Cuban, former world's champion, took second money. Though his final score was less than Bogoljubow's, a moral victory was his, for he had defeated Bogoljubow in their only personal tilt...
...chevalier and the most stubborn chessman. The gods who had directed the battles-chessplayers, the most famous in the world-put on their neat traveling clothes and left Moscow. The International Tournament, which had endured for six weeks, was over. The winner? There was no excitement about that. E. Bogoljubow, modest Russian, clinched first prize days before the end. Statuvolent Dr. Emanuel Lasker was second, as had been expected; José R. Capablanca (TIME, Dec. 7) wriggled into third place...