AJanuary 01, 1942
Oakland Tribune Oakland, California Thursday, January 01, 1942 - Page 9 — War Hits Chess — New York, Jan. 1 —(AP)—The latest sport to suffer from the war is—of all things—chess! Conditions resulting from the conflict have made it necessary to cancel preparations for the U.S. Chess Federation's biennial tournament scheduled for next March. Read More
Lincoln Journal Star Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday, January 01, 1942 - Page 16 — Tense Moment in Chess Play At The Marshall Chess Club — At The Marshall Chess club in New York City during the final matches in the eastern intercollegiate chess league tournament with City college playing Brooklyn college. At left, Herbert Seidman of Brooklyn made Read More
Southern Aegis Ashville, Alabama Thursday, January 01, 1942 - Page 4 — Druggists Played Chess — In ancient times every Arabian druggist was required by law to be a chess player. If a doctor prescribed chess for melancholia or other troubles of the mind, it was necessary for the druggist to be good at the game in order to teach the patient Read More
Caribou County Sun Soda Springs, Idaho Thursday, January 01, 1942 - Page 6 — Chess Origination — The modern game of chess probably had its origination in ancient Egypt where the aristocracy played a game called abbo in which small pieces of glass and porcelain bearing the gurfies of cats, jackals and other animals were moved in Read More
St. Joseph Gazette St. Joseph, Missouri Thursday, January 01, 1942 - Page 4 — Chess Wizard Coming — I.A. Horowitz, international chess master, will compete with twenty-five to forty persons simultaneously Jan. 17 at the Masonic Temple. The contestants, besides Mr. Horowitz, will be from the territory. Mr. Horowitz who is thirty-four years Read More
