September 07 1930
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, September 07, 1930
In the recent New York State championship, Arthur Dake, 20-year-old Oregon champ, finished third, only a half point behind Lessing and Santasiere, who tied for first. Dake, who has been residing lately in New York City, visited Los Angeles a few months ago and seemed to have a slight edge on our local champs.
November 05 1930
The Morning Call, Paterson, New Jersey, Wednesday, November 05, 1930
Chess Champion Will Give Exhibition
Arthur Dake, of Portland, Oregon, Here on Nov. 8.
Arthur Dake, of Portland, Ore., twenty-year-old new chess luminary, will give a simultaneous and blindfold exhibition at the Paterson Chess and Checker club, room 11, Garden Theater building, on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Dake is at present Pacific coast champion. In the recent New York state championship he finished second, losing by only half a point to Santasiere, whom, however, he afterward defeated in match play.
In the national junior master tourney, now being held at the Rice Chess club, in New York, young Dake is in the lead. He has defeated such noted players as Kupchik, Hodges, Helms and has several draws to his credit with Lasker. As a lightning and brilliant player he is without an equal among the masters of the younger generation. Many leading chess authorities hail him as the coming world's champion.
The Paterson Chess and Checker club extend to all interested a welcome to witness this exhibition, marking the opening of their winter activities, which will culminate in an effort to win the championship of the Northern New Jersey league, in which Paterson has entered as a competitor for the first time.
