AMay 19 1949
Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, Thursday, May 19, 1949
Al Ludwig Invites Russian Chess Champions to Omaha
World-Herald Washington Bureau, 1374 National Press Building.
A couple of champion chess players from Soviet Russia may invade Omaha next July to take on chess artists from all over the world.
Alfred C. Ludwig of 3351 South Seventeenth Street, Omaha, President of the Omaha Chess Club, wrote Senator Wherry about the fiftieth annual United States Open Championship to be held in Omaha July 11-23.
They'd like to invite Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein from Moscow, said Mr. Ludwig, if it wouldn't violate security rulings.
Botvinnik is world champion, Bronstein is second ranking player in the U.S.S.R.
Senator Wherry took it up with the State Department, was informed that so far as the department was concerned, in Washington, there was nothing to stand in the way of the men getting visas.
The matter was referred to the United States Embassy in Moscow to see if there was any objection from that end.
