Evening star., 1936-04-12
BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
M immortalized chess in his
w play. THE Tempest" by
' the rendition Of a beautiful
scene in which Prospero discovers
Ferdinand and Miranda playing at
chess" and indulging in light tete-a-
tete of pleasant raillery over the
game.
Mtr-S,Deet Lord, you play me
false.
Fer-No, my dear'st lore, ] would
not for the Dorld.
Mr-Yes, for score OF king
doms you should ,Urangle, and
Would call it fair play.
Sournin Yields Game
TOCKEYING back and forth be-
tween victory and defeat, Captain
Vladimir Sournin, national chess
master. debated for three days
whether to continue play in the first
of the three match game series with
D. H. Mugridge, Capital City champ.
the game having been adjourned
after the thirty-sixth move, with
Mugridge powerfully intrenched in a
position that boded no good for even
the canny Sournin.
Wednesday evening, Sournin strolled
into the club rooms, spoke cheerfully
to his opponent and resigned the
game. So, Mugridge chalked up the
initial win in their serial match. Ad-
mitting that the top-notcher in chess
has psychology on his side, as no
grandmaster who ever yielded a title
has been able to stage a successful
comeback, appearances often belle the
true facts. Thus Sournin may surprise
local chess-nuts in the two remaining
clashes that will be characterized by
all the finesse that skyrocketed him to
national fame eight years ago.
Seely's Daily Dozen
CTRANGE, odd. and amusing activ-
- tiles of home sapiens tend to Gre
ate the desire to be either striking,
different, eccentric, or to be cham
peen!" Now, here comes Charles S.
Seely, retired lieutenant commander
in Uncle Samuel's feet. with feat to
distinguish himself from all other
members of the Capital City Chess
Club.
For the six-month period ended
March 81. our good friend Seely habi-
tuated the chess rooms Of the local
club. During this time he played 2,277
games of chess, winning $50, drawing
72, and losing 1875.
Figure it out and you find he has
averaged IL chess games daily, almost
a bakers dozen, and believe me that's
some chess. In fact, it is chess before
and after breakfast, before and after
after lunch, before and after dinner.
And it is chess on the brain when you
go to bed at night. 1t is steady diet
of chess. 1t is the one way to keep
from growing old. What a hobby!
Chess Index by Green.
HURRAH for the Public Works Ad-
ministration as Curator Walter C. |
Green of the famous j. G. White |
chess and checker collection. Cleve-
land, Ohio, says he has obtained
throughout the courtesy of the P. w.
A. the services of a typist to aid him
specifically in indeXing the chess
periodicals in English that occur in
the l0,000-odd depository
Index No. will appertain TO
biographies and obituaries, with pic
lures of chess players. Index No. 2,
which is nearly completed. applies to
authors and titles of chess fiction and
chess poetry.
Since 1888. Walter Green has been
honorary director of chess research
for the national Phi Beta Kappa"
honor chess society, Chi Eta Sigma.
His genius for profound and sustained
research in the chess world has made
him a fountain of wisdom and the
supreme oracle on chess literature that
interests scholars Of the game the
world over.
Queens Gambit Declined.
MARTIN C. STARK, victor in both
" club and league tournament play
in 1885. struggled valiantly to escape
the encircling coils of Sournin in their
match game played in the fifth round
Of the 1886 league battle, but to no
avail. On the forty-sixth move Of a