Evening star., 1934-12-17
IN CHESS CIRCLES
By FRANK B. WALKER

Time was when the tournament for
the championship of the Capital City
Chess Club, now under way, included
the best players in the city, but inter-
est has slackened and now not more
than four or five players take part each
year. Last year the title was won by
D. H. Mugridge. Martin c. Stark was
his principal contender and is the
first to sign up this year. Others
who have entered are John Alden,
jr., a young progressive player, and
F. B. Walker, one of the veterans,
who has not played in tournaments
for three years.
1.-TWO international chess tourna-
! ments will start this month.
First will be the event at Mexico
City, in which four from this country,
Fine, Dake, Denkur and Herman
Steiner, will take part. as well as
Carlos Torres, of Mexican birth, but
who owes his chess development to
his residence In New Orleans and
New York. He won the New York
State championship as well as the
Western Chess Association title; then
suffered a health breakdown from
which he has recovered. There will
be IA engaged in this congress, which
Is expected to start on December 10.
The annual Christmas Chess Con-
rress at Hastings. England. will fol-
low from December 27 to January 5.
This will be made noteworthy by the
presence of Capablanca, former world
champion, of Havana. DR.. Max EuWe
of Holland, the next competitor OF
DR.. Alekhine for titular honors, Will
be there. as we'll as Salo Flohr OF
Prague, who finished last year in first
place ahead of DR.. Alekhine, and
Miss Vera Menchik, woman champion
of the world, who makes the best
players sit up and take notice. A.
Lilienthal, the Hungarian, winner OF
first prize, and M. Botwinnik, Rus
sian champion, also have been in
vited. The best British players Will
take part.
During the holidays the colleges
will be playing. First will come the
annual Harvard le-Princeton-Dart-
mouth Chess League tournament,
which was won last year by Harvard.
The intercollegiate Chess League
will come next. Last year Columbia
and City College of New York tied
in the regular tournament for first
place, and tried twice thereafter to
play off the tie, but without success.
The tournaments are held at the
rooms of the Marshall Chess Club,
New York City.
In the latter part Of next January
an international tournament will
start at Moscow, in which Capa-
blanca and Lasker, both former world
champions, will compete. 1t is not
likely, however, that the Russian
champion, Botwinnik, will participate.
Lilienthal and Flohr are expected to
take part.
"HE November number OF the
American Chess Bulletin con-
tains the correspondence be-
tween H M. Phillips, chairman OF
the Marshall l-Kashdan United States
Championship Match Committee, ano
Charles z. Kelley, president of the
Marshall Chess Club, who writes IN
behalf of Marshall, and states that
q meeting of the match committee
has been called for the purpose oi
considering the situation and drawing
UP a report for submission to the
headquarters of the National Ches:
Federation at Chicago. 1t seems thai
the committee was unable to raise
the necessary finances.
John Keeble of Norwich, England
one Of the contributors to the Mar,
shall-Kashdan fund, writes that thu
total expenses of the annual tourna'
ment for the British championship
do not exceed $3.50, and everybody /!
satisfied.
According to the Boston Evening
Transcript, in a school called Oppor.
tunity School, conducted under Fed
eral branch called F. e. r. A. II
Boston, chess will be one Of th'
educational features taught to grown