Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After nearly a month of vigorous competition the Ninth American Chess Congress ended with the winner undecided. Frank J. Marshall, American champion, and A. Kupchik, both of New York, tied for first place with 10½ games won and 2½ lost. The prizes were split and an address of appreciation made to Harry Latz, general manager of the Hotel Alamac, Lake Hopatcong, N. J., where the matches were held. The players, who had been busy with their games since Aug. 6, broke training and departed for their homes...
Despatches from Vienna indicate that the playing of Rubinstein (Poland) and Bogoljubow (Russia) was decidedly disappointing in the International Chess Tournament at Ostrau, Czecho-Slovakia. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) was the winner and has filed his challenge for a return match for the World's Championship with Jose Capablanca (Cuba...
...infant prodigy is one of the perennial marvels, despite his comparative frequency. Every year brings a number of precocious children, especially in music, and yet the public remains interested. A phenomenal child can draw attention to subjects most neglected by the populace. There is the game of chess. It is impossible to draw any public interest in chess ordinarily. But when the infant prodigy appeared, little Sammie Reschewsky, the newspapers ran columns about him. This boy, too, is a case to be studied with an eye to the over-pushing of precocious tots. It was reported that in Germany, before...
...Compiegne, France, society people and actors took part in a "living" game of chess. The squares were fifteen feet on a side, and each piece consisted of one person and four attendants. Edouard Pape and Andre Muffang were the masters who contested the match...
Tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in the Club Room of the Union, the 1926 chess team will play its second match of the season against Exeter. In its initial contest the first-year men defeated the M. I. T. Freshmen 3 to 1. The match tomorrow, which will be the first one between the Freshmen and Exeter for several years, will be played on six boards. The men who will play for the yearlings are: R. E. Spalding, W. B. Pecsok, Leo Schwartz, G. E. Levine, F. C. Foss Jr., and Richard Baltzley...