Evening star., 1935-12-22

" games that VIII decide the
championship of the world,
it is an accepted axiom that abilities
and stratagems being equal, the
younger man invariably will win, for
there is no more strenuous and exact
ing form of mental athletics than
chess.
Thus Max Euwe. a 34Iyear- pro-
feSSor of mathematics in small little
known school in Amsterdam, Holland,
after 29 rounds of play, entered the
final match for the world chess cham
pionship with youth on his side, to
emerge victorious over Alexander
Alekhine, expatriate of Russia, nat
uralized Frenchman holding the de-
gree of docteur en- droit as well as
the NEST coveted laurels in the chess
world since 1927, when he became the
world champion at the age of 35.
AS the two masters opened their
thirtieth round of play, the score
stood at each. with 13 games drawn.
The final passed from the opening
stage into the middle stage with the
Dutchman aggresSively pressing the
attack. At the critical point of play,
DR.. Alekhine conceded his game i'm
possible and hailed his adversary as
the new world champion.
1t was a great match fraught with
hazards that well might have taxed
the strength of Morphy or Steinitz.
The world still awaits with keen in
terest publication of the recent games
with annotations of the new cham
pion to note the subtlety of the mind
that garnered victory where so many
other masters had found merciless de-
feat.
Central High Team Wins.
THE three -cornered contest for the
chess championship of the Dis
trict high schools, in which Central,
Tech and Roosevelt High Wed for ini-
tial honors, came to a close this week
with Central winning the title. Capt
Robert o. Knox of the victorious
team now seeks other crowns.
From each of the competing teams
will be selected the two best players,
who will strive for a special medal
that will be awarded the champion
high school chess player in the Dis
trict. Through the courtesy OF the
Intercollegiate Chess Association Of
America this award has been ar
ranged, and unofficially it is stated
that the conteSting players will in
clude in all probability Robert Knox
and Ralph Schreyer from Central,
Reamy Pierce and Bernard Hauser
from Tech and William Heatwole and
Morton Rose from Roosevelt.
High school students, interested in
affiliating with the recently organized
Washington Inter High Chess Asso-
citation, may communicate with PreSi-
dent William Heatwole. 905 Quack-
enboS street northwest, telephone,
Georgia 2795.
School Chess Finds Welcome.
UTASHINGTON'S schools are spon-
soring chess clubs even as the
many other progressive secondary
schools throughout the United States
and the world
Social chess has found its most fer
tile field in America in the educa-
tional circles of Milwaukee, Wis,
where the extension department of
the public schools, under the super
vision of Prof. Donald B. Dyer, has
introduced chess classes in its social
centers since 1882.
These classes were received en-
Enthusiastically by both young and old
and courses for the beginners and ad-
vanced players have been offered every
year for the last four years. Some
5000 chess fans developed in Mil
waukee during 1882, to increase to
more $4,000 than i'll the current year.
Municipal recreation directors in
Racine, Kenosha, West Allis, Wan
watoSa, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Madi-
son, Sheboygan, and Two Rivers are
following the Milwaukee plan" of
having itinerant teachers travel from
to playground teaching
the game to boys, girls, men, and
women.
Arpad Elo of Milwaukee, president
of the American Chess Federation,
won the 1885 championship of the
Wisconsin Municipal Recreation As
sociation. Prof. Donald B. Dyer, men,
Der of Chi Eta Sigma. honor chess
society, encourages chess education
in Wisconsin schools at every op-
portunity.
Chess Is Taught.
A s EARLY as 1011 the science OF
chess was taught in the schools
Of Strobeck, Germany: and the peo~
pie Of strobeck commemorate chess