Word: capablanca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chess experts, the game ended after 43 moves when Dr. Euwe resigned, relaxed, reached his hand across the board to congratulate his opponent. After two months of play. Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, Russian-born Parisian, had regained the world's chess championship he won in 1927 from Cuban Jose Capablanca, lost in 1935 to Dr. Euwe (TIME...
...Julius Rosenwald, who was so impressed that he spent $11,000 to send Reshevsky through high school and college. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1933 with only average grades, Reshevsky resumed chess, made his debut in European international play last year by beating onetime World Champion Jose Capablanca to win the masters' tournament at Margate, England. Last month he quit his accountant's job in Manhattan to enter the national tournament...
Should Alekhine win the 30th and last game, he would tie the count, keep the title which he won eight years ago from Cuba's José R. Capablanca. Soon maneuvered out of position by Euwe, who attacked vigorously after a queen's gambit, Alekhine accepted his offer of a draw after 35 moves, rose from directly under Jacob Lyon's great canvas of The Riflemen of Capt. Jacob Pieterson Hooghkamer and Lieutenant Pieter van Rijn in the Military Casino (see cut), warmly congratulated his youthful successor. To the amateur winner went the championship...
...this spring, and Germany's handsome, beefy Ewfimij Dimitriewitsch Bogoljubow. The gallery, watching the tables in the hush of the Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club, were most interested in two equally famed players neither of whom did as well as might have been expected. José Raoul Capablanca, onetime champion of the world, lost two games and finished fourth, a point behind the winners. Fat, solemn Vera Menchik, world's woman champion, was born in Czechoslovakia, brought up in Moscow, now lives in Hastings. She dismayed her neighbors by winning only one game, finishing just ahead...
First Camelot tournament in Manhattan, sponsored by expert Camelotist Anne Morgan, was played last week at the clubhouse of the American Women's Association, refereed by onetime Chess Champion Jose Capablanca, won by a Miss Elizabeth Wray. Named, for no particular reason, after King Arthur's hometown, Camelot was invented three years ago by George Swinnerton Parker, head of Parker Bros. of Salem, Mass., who manufacture more games than anyone else in the U.S. Camelot is played with pieces resembling pawn chessmen on an irregularly checkered board. It comes in "editions" of which Parker Bros. say they have...