May 05 1929
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, May 05, 1929
Elsewhere in The Times sports section today is a biography of Dr. Alexander Alekhine, who makes his second appearance in Los Angeles, but the first as a world's champion, Tuesday night at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Arthur Dake “airmails” from Portland, Or.: “Reserve a board for me. Portland Chess Club wanted Alekhine but his fee was too high, so I am coming to Los Angeles.”
May 10 1929
Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, Friday, May 10, 1929
Chess Champ Reaches San Francisco
San Francisco, May 10.—Dr. Alexander Alekhine, world chess champion, who won the title from Jose Capablanca in 1927, arrived in San Francisco today on an exhibition tour.
In the afternoon Dr. Alekhine demonstrated his skill in several consultation matches at the Mechanics' Institute, as well as playing three games blindfolded.
Commencing at 7 p. m. tomorrow night, Dr. Alekhine will play simultaneously 40 game of chess against the best talent that can be gathered at the club. Arthur Dake, Portland expert; Prof. Bruce Anthony, former Stanford chess team star, and Miss Vieve Hines, woman champion of the Pacific coast, have been invited to vie with the world champion.
Dr. Alekhine has been known to play 30 games of chess simultaneously while completely blindfolded, and can talk chess in six languages.
May 19 1929
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, May 19, 1929
World Champion Alekhine simultaneous exhibition at San Francisco, Saturday night, the 11th inst., packed the chess club rooms in the Mechanics' Institute. Against forty-four players he won 28, lost 8 and drew 8. The lucky winners were A. J. Fink, State champion; E. W. Gruer, former State champion; Charles Bagby,. A. B. Stamer, D. Vedensky, S. Silvius, L. Goldstone and Dr. A. Epstein. Draws were obtained by Dr. W. R. Lovegrove, Prof. G. K. Branch, Henry Gross, J. Drouillard, Leo Christianson, Fred Byron, G. Traum and L. Rosenblatt. One of the players, almost totally blind, lasted fifty-one moves while a friend, totally blind, sat alongside and recorded the game, move by move, on his Braille typewriter. Arthur Dake, 19-year-old Oregon champ, who came from Portland to Los Angeles to lose his game in the exhibition here, stopped off at San Francisco on his way home to take a second crack at the world's champion, and suffered defeat again. Alekhine states he was not feeling well up north and visited a Russian doctor upon his return to Los Angeles.
