Evening star., 1933-08-06
NHE responses to the offer Of DR..
Alexander Alekhine, world chess
champion, to give a simultane-

champion to give a simultane-
Gus blindfold exhibition here
have not been sufficiently generous to
justify the holding of such an exhibi-
tion, and at this writing it can be
stated that the project OF giving a
public exhibition here has been aban-
doned
DR.. Alekhine. however, will visit
Washington as the guest Of l. Turover
and will spend the week end seeing the
local sights. Early in the week he will
play in private a consultation game
with Turover. consulting with W. X.
Wimsatt and perhaps A. w. Fox, all
of whom are strong players. and Tur-
over and Fox recognized as masters.
The three of them should give the
champion hard fight.
1t cannot be told at this time
whether or not an exhibition will be
given by DR.. Alekhine in Baltimore.
Herman Helms vOucheS for the
fact that on the day following
the great blindfOld exhibition in
freshed and as care-free as any
of the great multitude in Chi
cagO to view the wonders of the
exhibition, apparently none the
worse for his effort.
n EADERs' DIGEST for July con-
II tains under the caption Talk
of the Town" a brief reference
to DR. Norbert L. Lederer, who it says
lives in a roomy New York apartment,
where he has 1000 tropical fish. which
he keeps in IA tanks. the biggest of
which holds 80 gallons. He has go
kinds of fish in all.
Dr. Lederer is chess expert and
not unknown in this city. In 1880 he
was the London umpire in Washington
in the cable match between London
and Washington. In The Sunday Star
of December g. 1929. is an article by
DR.. Lederer. entitled Mathematical
Mind Best in Chess Game" He Is de-
scribed therein as the director and
chairman of the Tournament Commit
tee of the National Chess Federation
of the United States.
He speaks of chess and chess play
ers as one thoroughly informed He
says that in the days of Paul Morphy
the game was an art rather than a
science, and classes Morphy as an
artist DR. Emanuel Lasker was more
of the battling type, Capablanca is
what might be called an efficiency ex-
pert, and rarely takes chances, and DR..
Alekhine is probably the greatest
analyst in the game, and his wonderful
imagination has made some OF his
games imperishable gems.
He says that chess has come to be
the most cosmopolitan and most demo-
cratic of all games. Today it Is played
all over the globe-on land. at sea and
in the air. on trains. ships and air
planes, and even by telephone and
cable.
He says that. contrary to popu-
lar belief, chess has more followers
than bridge: that one can dlpdys
prope his superiority in chess.
1uhereas he cannot in bridge, and
that the element of chance or
luck does not arise in chess as it
does in card games
The Newark Evening News states
that Albert Beauregard Hodges Of
Staten Island. N. Y, 70 years old, "the
oldest living United States chess cham
pion," is still hale. hearty and happy
and still plays master chess. Hodges
in former days paid visits to this city
and gave exhibitions. He played on
the United States team in the cable
against Great Britain. How
ever, he never won the United States
championship He did win the New
York State championship, and while
LipschutZ actually held the United
States title in the COS and was COM
PEELED to spend some years in Cali
fornia trying to recuperate his health,
the title was claimed on behalf of
Showalter, Hodges and Pillsbury.
Showalter subsequently won it from
Arthur W. Dake and Reuben
Fine, 1Dlo played at boards and
3, respectively, ON the United
States team at FOlkeStone, hare
been matched to pldy series OF
10 games at the rooms OF the
Clubs, Ne1D York City, beginning
on August I. The match tiH be
sir points up, dratDs counting
one-hdlt game. Ddke lost a match
to I. Horo1oitz last Spring. to
o, and four drdUs. Then Ddke de-
teated him in the test for a place
on the United States team.
In last weeks rapid transit tourna-
ment at the Marshall Chess Club, Ar
thur w. Dake won first prize with
clean score of IL victories. Reuben
Fine and Samuel Reshevsky tied for
second place with the score Of 1872.
n ECENTLY w. H. Steckel, cham
II pion of Allentown. Pa, playing
blindfold. defeated Carl Carsone,
president of the Lehigh Valley Chess
Association Steckel last Spring headed
a team which went to New York City
and played against the Marshall Chess
Club. The Marsha,ls won, Az to IL,
but Steckel won his individual game
from A. c. Simonson, who was the
surprise" winner of q place on the
United States team In the. test tourna-
ment. The Allentown team won from