April 13 1916
The Kalispell Journal, Kalispell, Montana, Thursday, April 13, 1916
Chess Congress.
The chess masters' tourney in New York city the coming winter is in honor of the Rice gambit. It is twenty yeas since Isaac Rice, the scholar, musician and patron of the royal game of chess invented this opening which bears his name. The tourney will begin Jan. 8, the opening round being scheduled to be played at the Manhattan Chess club. Invitations have been sent to a group of the foremost chess players. Including J. R. Capablanca of Havana, F. J. Marshall of New York, A. A. Alechine of Petrograd, Boris Kostic of Budapest, Edouard Lasker of Chicago, J. W. Showalter of Georgetown, E. B. Jefferson of Memphis, N. T. Whittaker of Washington. N. W. Banks of Detroit, who recently challenged Marshall and others of the leading American chess players. Professor Rice has consented to act as president of the congress and has donated $1000 to be given as prizes.
April 16 1916
This photo was taken on April 16, 1916, during the consultation game of Alexander Alekhine vs Nikolay Loran and Vasily Vladimirov (treasurer of the Odessa Chess Society, in uniform, since he was director of the railway school). Next to him, Nikolai Evgenievich Loran, the editor of the chess section of ”Odessa News,” recording the game. Front row (left to right): Vasily Vladimirov, Nikolay Loran, publisher of the newspaper “Odessa News,” Izrael Kheifets, ? and Alexander Alekhine. Standing: Iosif Grinberg (head of the Commercial Assembly), ?, Boris Verlinsky, the organizer of Alekhine's tour in Odessa Felix Shpanir and the Odessa reporter Alexander Khudarsky.
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