Leslie Hastings Ault, 1959

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June 29 1959

Press of Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Monday, June 29, 1959

Junior Chess Champ—The N. J. junior chess champion, Robin Ault, 17, of Cranford and other top players were congratulated by E. F. Daigle, right, director, at the close of a three-day tournament at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel. The young lad in front is Jeffrey Harris of 51 N. Windsor Ave., who was awarded the tournament's “Brilliancy Prize.” Others, from left, are Ault, first runner-up Roger Pitasky, 16, of Trenton, and third place winner Leslie Ault, 18, the champion's brother. Press photo.

Cranford Boy Wins Tourney Here To Become State Chess Champion
Seventeen-year-old Robin Ault of Cranford became New Jersey's junior chess champion yesterday at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel.
Ault defeated Glenn Reitze, 16, of Jersey City in the championship match to end the three-day State Junior Chess Tournament here. His record was four wins and one draw.
Reitz and five other competitors came through the tournament with three wins, one draw and one loss. Their places were determined by a tie-breaking system based on how they played their matches, with these results:
Second place went to Roger Pitasky, 16, Trenton; third to Leslie Ault, the winner's 18-year-old brother; fourth to Reitze; fifth to William Lukowiak, 16, Belleville, and sixth to Jerome Finkelstein, 17, Long Branch.
The first six placers were awarded trophies. Pitasky also won a trophy for accumulating the highest score of any competitor under 17.
Jeffrey Harris of 51 N. Windsor Ave. was awarded the tournament's “Brilliancy Prize” for his first-round victory Friday evening over John Yehl, 19, of Hamonton.
Yesterday's competition opened with the two Aults, Pitasky and Reitze tied with two wins and one draw each. In the morning's fourth tournament round, Robin Ault beat Pitasky and Reitze defeated Leslie Ault.
Reitze lost to Robin Ault in the fifth and final round, while Pitasky and Leslie Ault were recording wins over other opponents.

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December 31 1959

Republican and Herald, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Thursday, December 31, 1959

Leslie H. Ault Wins Chess Title
University Park, Pa. (UPI)—Leslie H. Ault, a Columbia University sophomore, won the national intercollegiate chess championship Wednesday at Pennsylvania State University.
Ault, of Cranford, N.J., finished the three-day tournament with five out of a possible six points when he drew in the final round with Sanford Greene, Elmsford, N.Y., a student at City College of New York. One point was awarded for a win and a half-point for a draw.
Greene, finishing with four points, tied for second place with J.T. Higginbotham, Westwood, N.J., Case Institute of Technology: George Baylor, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Tech, and Carl E. Warner, Toms River, N. J., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Defending champion Charles Kalme, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, did not compete this year.

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Leslie Hastings Ault, 1981

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April 15 1981

The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, Wednesday, April 15, 1981

Chess Treasures
Eleven-year-old Hoainhan Truong of Hillsdale, left, winner of the Bergen County Open Chess Championship, and Dr. Leslie Ault of Closter, New Jersey, runner-up, with their trophies and chessboard plaques from seven-week Dumont Chess Mates matches at Dumont High School.

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Leslie Hastings Ault, 1977

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September 17 1977

Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia, Saturday, September 17, 1977

Dr. Leslie Ault, an expert on the psychology of game playing, explains the challenge of the British game, Mastermind, for which he authored the official handbook. He demonstrates a floor model of the game which normally is played on a small board.

The Games People Play Are Revealing
By Kathy Wells, Assistant TODAY Editor
The games people play shouldn't be taken so lightly.
Whether you play poker or bridge, chess or checkers tells something about your make-up, personality and motivation.
In poker there isn't inter play whereas many bridge players play chess and vice versa. Some games take longer to learn and longer to play; within some games there is an element of patience while other games contain an element of luck, says Dr. Leslie Ault, professor of behavioral sciences and an expert on the psychology of game playing. He was recently in Tidewater at Rices Nachmans to demonstrate “Mastermind,” a unique British game for which he authored the book “The Official Master Mind Handbook” which is in its revised edition. His appearance is part of the “British Affair” going on in all Tidewater Rices Nachmans through Sept. 24.
Some people prefer games where there is chance and luck because these types of games do not threaten their ego or prestige. “They can rationalize it when the dice come out wrong or they get bad cards. The other extreme is the game of skill where such a person is turned on by the intellectual challenge, the mastering of the game.”
The playing of games is increasing around the world, and Dr. Ault says this reflects the need for active stimulation. Going back historically, adults had little recreation but in the 20th century work time is declining. Some adults have spent their extra 20-30 hours a week glued to the television sets, but more are recognizing the bad side effects of this habit and are seeking more constructive ways of spending time which takes in camping, sports, hobbies of collecting and games of all types.
“The monetary outlay for leisure is doubling every 10 years,” notes Dr. Ault.
“Americans have bad trouble with obesity, but people are beginning to realize the importance of physical fitness and are turning to active stimulation.”
What makes a good child's game? A game the child can understand, that isn't above level for the child. Look for a game which offers an intellectual challenge and where there is some strategy. A game should be a social activity as well as a contributor to the learning process. “The more you learn, the easier it is to learn,” says Dr. Ault. The sophistication of games today reflects the interest of adults in games, he observes. As far as the electronic games and games played on the television screen, Dr. Ault views them as a novelty which soon wears off. “It's a pale substitute for doing the real thing.”
Dr. Ault's fascination with Mastermind and his love for chess brings him communication from all parts of the world, especially computer specialists who employ the computer wizards to print out sheets upon sheets of Mastermind solutions. He tries to answer each one encouraging them and thanking them for the printouts and analyses of Mastermind probabilities. “It's very easy to get technical about Mastermind,” he says.
If you're not familiar with Mastermind, it's a game of logic and wits between two players. It is played with plastic pegs in holes. The objective of Mastermind is to guess a secret code consisting of colored pegs. Each guess results in feedback narrowing the possibilities. The winner is the player who solves his opponent's secret code with the fewer guesses.
There have been two British Mastermind tournaments, and this winter there will be an international championship. Invicta, the producer of Mastermind, will sponsor contests throughout American colleges with the winner receiving an expense-paid trip to the British championship.
Dr. Ault is also the author of “Chess Tutor” and “Elements of Combinations,” and he co-authored Bobby Fischer's first book of chess, “Bobby Fischer Teacher Chess.”

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November 21 1977

The Kansas City Times, Kansas City, Missouri, Monday, November 21, 1977

Games a Cure To Primal Urge For Conquest
By Michael Nelson
A Member of the Staff
There lurks in all of us a savage self, an unforgetting Neanderthal soul longing for the hunt, the conquest, the primeval victory.
Lacking the spear not needing the daily kill we satisfy this wild craving through—you won't believe it—Monopoly or other games — at least according to Dr. Leslie Ault.
“We don't have the excitement of hunting for our meals,” says Ault, a psychologist at the City University of New York. “Now we just go to the supermarket. Our needs are taken care of; we have money. It seems as if adult games could serve as a psychological substitute for hunting and other activities. We have to prove in adulthood that we are the masters of our minds and bodies.
“This is something that we knew in childhood,” he says. “As children we have a drive to master our environment. Look at how quickly a child picks up words and wants to master the language. By playing games we try to prove that we are masters of our minds and bodies.
“Since we no longer spend time hunting for our meals and have lots of leisure time we satisfy this desire to master our environment in about three ways: hunting for sport, sports and collecting. We spend billions on games and recreation because of this surge in leisure time.”
But the increase in leisure time an outgrowth of modern society is not the only reason for the popularity of games he contends. It is known for example that some games were popular during the Middle Ages although “we can't be sure because the history of the world is more a matter of wars and conquest than games.”
This is not to say that games are a frivolous matter. To the contrary, Ault says, they provide a needed outlet for physical and mental stimulation and a constructive use of leisure time. In adulthood he says there is an urgent need to exercise the body's mental and physical capabilities to provide excitement to what for many people are years of boredom.
“In playing adult games we can suffer the anxiety of imminent defeat and the thrill of victory,” he says. “We can experience vicariously some excitement. This is a reaction to the confines of modern life.
“Most people in their work get very little feedback. When I'm lecturing there isn't a magic number that lights up telling me how I'm doing. It's a very vague standard. Even with a lawyer arguing a case he may win or lose it but it could be for the wrong reasons.
“With a game you get immediate feedback on how your mind is working,” Ault says. “You can even get that from something as simple as a crossword puzzle.”
Ault, the author of the Official MasterMind Handbook and several other game manuals has firsthand experience. He won the intercollegiate chess championship in 1959 and was a member of the Eastern Championship Chess team in 1962 while attending Columbia University.
He is paid to promote MasterMind a code game involving logical deduction cunning and luck. Played by two persons one player establishes a hidden code with colored pegs and the other tries to break the code within 10 tries.
Despite his job, Ault's first love is chess something evident through the interview. For example:
•“Games of skill like chess suggest that the more you know about something the more you can learn. You can't overload the brain.”
•“You can learn lots of ways that things inter-relate through chess and MasterMind. Chess teaches you to consider options and MasterMind teaches you how to group things.”
•“Learning to play a game well has differing effects in other areas. Chess teaches you strategy and MasterMind has a mathematical application.”
Games may be the best way to teach good sportsmanship, Ault says.
“In some ways children are pushed to win but not to lose gracefully,” Ault says. “This isn't possible in table games because they are played through mutual consent; the child learns to savor success and cope with failure. If you lose and are a bad sport about it the next time you're ignored. The other person says ‘I'm not going to play with him anymore.’
“In organized sports you can be a bad sport. If you lose and stomp off the field you're going to be there next week anyway. In fact, in Little League the kid who is a gentleman after a loss frequently is thought of as the child who didn't want to win that bad, so bad conduct is in a way encouraged.
“Sports are good because they promote physical well-being but table games teach you how to handle the ups and downs of life gracefully and how to judge what's important”.

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Leslie Hastings Ault, 1973

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February 19 1973

The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, Monday, February 19, 1973

Second Place Team—Leslie Ault ponders a tactical problem of Dumont teammate Ken Regan. Staff photo by Emmett Francois.

Dumont Second in Chess Meet
By Joe Rura, Staff Writer
The Dumont Chess Masters finished second yesterday in the largest team chess tournament ever held in the country.
The two-day event in the Bergen Mall auditorium, Paramus, drew 63 teams, and 289 participants from every county in New Jersey.
First prize—four chess clocks—went to the Bayonne Chess Club, which won all five of its match games.
The Dumont team had the most number of individual wins, but tied in the fifth round with the top-rated Westfield Chess Club for a team score of 4½ each.
The four members of the Dumont team were county champion Ken Regan, 13, of Paramus, Leslie Ault of Closter, Kenneth Lebow of North Bergen, and Bernard Friend of Leonia, who also won a prize for best play on a third board.
St. Peter's Prep School Chess Club of Jersey City won top high school team honors for the second consecutive year.
Expert Eugene Shapiro, who led the Westfield Chess Club, was the tournament's top player.
Shapiro, who once attained a master rating, was given hard competition by high school student Catalda Stolfa of St. Peter's.
Tony Cottell, director of the Passaic-Clifton YMCA, has announced he will hold a U.S. Chess Federation-rated quadrangular chess tournament the first Sunday of every month in the Passaic-Clifton Y.M.C.A., 45 River Drive, Passaic.
The first tournament begins March 4 at 9:30 a.m. The entry fee is $5.

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Leslie Hastings Ault, 1956

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1956

Cranford High School, Cranford, Union County, New Jersey Yearbook 1956

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September 16 1956

Daily News, New York, New York, Sunday, September 16, 1956

Leslie H. Ault, 15, and dad Leslie Sr., practice chess. News photo by Almon Johnston.

Almost everyone in the household of Leslie F. Ault, of 22 Munsee Dr., Cranford, plays chess and at least two of the family are champions.
Chess players include Ault, and his sons, Leslie H., 15, Robin, 14, and David 9. The only non-player is Mrs. Ault.
The senior Ault won the Class A championship in the New Jersey chess tournament at Asbury Park and young Leslie won the crown for players less than 16 years old.
“The other boys are coming along,” Ault said. “They play a good game and show a lot of interest.

Tough Contests
The father is no more than a few moves ahead of his eldest son. “Competition with Leslie has sharpened my game,” he said. “The boy is a better student of the game and new developments in moves and defense than I am. The day isn't far off when he'll be better than me.”
Ault said all of the boys began playing chess when they were about nine and progressed quickly. Leslie and Robin play on the chess team at Cranford High School and are counting on David to bolster the squad after they are out of school.
“I've been playing chess about 20 years,” Ault said, “and I'm afraid my game isn't going to improve too much. But I'm confident the boys will go on to be first class players.”

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Leslie Hastings Ault, 1961

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June 26 1961

Press of Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Monday, June 26, 1961

Chess Winners—Robin Ault of Cranford is presented a trophy as winner of the New Jersey State Junior Chess Championship Sunday in the Penn-Atlantic Hotel. From left are Raymond Fasano of Red Bank, second place winner; Gladys Nan Pollock of Passaic, state girls champion; Leslie Ault of Cranford, third place winner; Robin Ault, and E. F. Daigle, tournament director. (Press Photo).

Cranford Boy, Robin Ault, Wins State Chess Tourney 3rd Time
Robin Ault, 19, of Cranford, won the New Jersey State Junior Chess Championship for the third year in a row Sunday by topping 25 other contestants in the tournament played at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel.
He won four and drew one in five matches conducted during the three-day tourney.
Runner-up was Raymond Fasano, 15, of Red Bank and third was Leslie Ault, 20, brother of the champion.
Gladys Nan Pollock, 15, of Passaic, was crowned New Jersey State Girls Junior Chess Champion. She was the lone girl entered in the tournament, which is open to state boys and girls under 21. She won a single match and was automatically recognized as champion.
Peter Irwin, 17, of Summit, placed fourth and won the brilliancy prize.
Robin Ault, Fasano and Irwin won trophies and were given $50 in cash each with the understanding they use the money as bus fare to the United States Junior Chess championships, to be held from July 31 to Aug. 5 in Dayton, Ohio.
Alan Spielman, 18, of Margate, placed fifth and won the prize awarded to the winner of the shortest game. Other prize winners were:
John Xenakis, 17, of Eatontown, sixth; John Greevy, 17, of West New York, seventh; Donald McCoy, 17, of Montclair, eighth; Leonard Karabell, 13, of Margate, ninth; Percy Whiting, 17, of Upper Montclair, tenth; Kenneth Orbach, 13, of Cedar Grove, eleventh, and James Goldman, 16, of East Paterson, twelfth.
Prizes were awarded by E. F. Daigle, director of the tournament. The tournament was co-sponsored by the resort Optimist Club and the New Jersey State Chess Federation.

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George Ernest Avery, 1939

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March 19, 1939

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Sunday, March 19, 1939

Checkers, Chess Editors Experienced In Games
James Moir Won First Championship at 16 In Scotland, Heads State Association; G. E. Avery Learned Chess On Bicycle Trip in 1900 Using Improvised Set
By Robert H. Zaiman
“Go and get interviews with our checkers and chess editors and write a story about them,” the boss said to me one night a few weeks back.
I nodded my assent, not knowing just exactly what I was letting myself in for with these two quiet and unassuming men, whom most of the reporters, copy readers, office boys and the rest of the people who go to make up a newspaper office, had never met or even seen although they edit weekly columns in The Sunday Courant.
I secured the interviews and ??und in the personalities of these two men, James Moir, checkers editor and G. E. Avery, chess editor. Two of the most interesting ones I have ever seen or hope to see.
[Omitting Checkers interview]
I thanked Mr. Moir, and gathered up my notes, prepared for my next interview
First Game of Chess
It wasn't until a week later that I was able to contact Mr. Avery, and set a date for our talk. I met him at the door, just I had Moir, and ????ered him into the boss's quiet office where I began to fire questions at him.
Where, when and how…” I ??anded first, and calmly Avery revealed a fascinating tale to me.
It was the year 1900 and he and a friend were on their way from Hartford to Washington by bicycle. Just outside of Baltimore, in a little town called Reinstertown, Md., they ???? forced to spend a night in a ???ll hotel. Faced with an evening of inactivity, his friend suggested ?? they play chess. But, alas, no-???? was there to be found a set with which to play, and besides Avery had never played the game.
But Avery's friend was not to be stopped by such trifles, and with a chess board drawn in the table and slips of paper for men, Avery played his first game of chess.

Average Game Two Hours
On his return to Hartford he joined the Hartford Chess Club which was then located on Main Street. A short time later the club was abandoned. However, Avery continued playing and was instrumental in the forming of the new Hartford Chess Club several years ago. He was elected the club's second president.
“Most people think of chess as a game that goes on for hours,” I told Avery. “How long would you say an average chess game lasted?”
“Well,” said Avery, “I have known matches to last as long as seven hours and others only several minutes but I should say that the average time for a match would be two hours.”
Avery has played several of the world's best chess players, including Marshall and Capablanca. He is captain of the Travelers chess team. With three others, he represented Connecticut in the Connecticut Valley-Western Massachusetts tournaments recently.
As he walked out of the office and I settled back with the notes of my two interviews, I suddenly became aware of the vast coverage of “Connecticut's Most Valued Newspaper” with such small and interesting groups, as the two men I had just encountered represented, so well covered in its columns.

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George Ernest Avery, 1938

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October 23 1938

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Sunday, October 23, 1938

Officers of Connecticut Chess League
Left to right—Charles Dutton, secretary-treasurer; Fred Pearson, president; Nathan Cornell, vice-president; George Avery, tournament director.

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George Ernest Avery, 1959

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December 03 1959

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Thursday, December 03, 1959

Avery Dies, Chess Editor Of Courant
George E. Avery, 78, of 36 Hillcrest Ave., Wethersfield, chess editor of The Courant for many years, died Wednesday afternoon at his home.
He was born in South Windsor, son of the late George Avery and Mary Beale Avery, and lived in Wethersfield for 33 years. He retired in 1950 from the Travelers Insurance Co. after 50 years in the accident department.
He was a member of the Travelers Men's Club and the Hartford Chess Club, and, for the past 10 years, did recreation work at the Hartford Rehabilitation Center and the Hartford Tuberculosis Society.
He leaves a son, Thomas H. Avery of Wethersfield; a brother, Westell R. Avery of San Gabriel, Calif.; and a sister, Miss Lilah M. Avery of Hartford.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Newkirk and Whitney Funeral Home, 776 Farmington Ave., West Hartford. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford.
Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hartford Heart Assn., 108 Gillett St.

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George Ernest Avery, 1931

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February 07 1931

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Saturday, February 07, 1931

G. E. Avery 30 Years At Travelers
Wethersfield Man, in Accident Department, Receives Gifts on Anniversary
George E. Avery of the accounting division of the accident department of the Travelers Insurance Company passed the thirtieth milestone of his service in the home office on Friday. Mr. Avery received many expressions of congratulation on his anniversary during the day from associates in the home office, and was presented a large bouquet of flowers, a wrist watch and a pen and pencil set by his co-workers.
Records of the office supervisor show that Mr. Avery has never been absent from his work because of personal illness and that he has never been late in arriving at work. Except for a year in civil engineering work after his graduation from the Hartford Public High School in the class of 1898, Mr. Avery has spent all his business life in the accident department of the Travelers. Among his fellow students in the class of '98 were Secretary Ahern and Assistant Secretary Lacy of the accident department.
On coming to the home office of the company, which in 1901 was located at the northeast corner of Grove and Prospects streets. Mr. Avery served an apprenticeship as a small boy. Approximately 100 persons were employed in the home office when Mr. Avery came to work for the Travelers, and the growth which has taken place in the organization during the 30 years of his service is indicated by the fact that in 1901 all incoming mail from the post office amounted to only one sackful, the contents of which were looked over and sorted out by John E. Morris, then secretary. Mr. Avery has a sister, Miss Lelah Avery, who is a member of the casualty claim department of the home office, and a brother, Westell Avery, an agent for the company in the Los Angeles branch office.
A number of years ago when chess was more widely played than nowadays Mr. Avery was the champion chess player of the home office, having won a number of tournaments held among home office employees. His home is at 36 Hillcrest Avenue, Wethersfield.

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George Ernest Avery, 1905

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October 27 1905

Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Friday, October 27, 1905

Babson Plays at Chess Club
Well Known Player Will be in Hartford This Evening.
The first of a series of six games, on a challenge of George E. Avery by R. C. Webster, was played last night at the Hartford Chess Club and resulted in a victory for Webster. In the series, the one beating in the first two consecutive games will be the winner. Those already tried out for the club team are Harry Ring, Axel Wallenburg, J. W. Raymond and J. H. Kirkham and those on the secondary team are F. A. Steward, E. F. Shea, G. E. Avery and H. J. Loescher, Loescher joining last evening. The teams will be completed tonight.
The playing off of the members will bring a large number of chess players to the meeting this evening, but a still greater attraction will be the presence of Mr. Babson, at present from Boston but known to chess players from Maine to California as the 1900-move man, and the organizer of well known chess clubs. It is doubtful if any members of the local club will attempt to play with the visitor, but all will be interested in his demonstrations of some of his chess problems and difficult moves. The club invites all chess players to attend, whether connected with the club or not.

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Akiba Rubinstein, 1911

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April 09 1911

Akiba Rubinstein 09 Apr 1911, Sun Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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April 16 1911

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sunday, April 16, 1911

Chess Masters in International Tournament at San Sabastian
From left to right—Frank Marshall, Amos Burn (standing), David Janowski, Ossip Bernstein, Oldrich Duras, Akiba Rubinstein, Geza Maroczy (seated), Rudolf Spielmann, Paul Saladin Leonhardt, the referee; Jose Capablanca, Aron Nimzowitsch, Milan Vidmar, Hoffer, Richard Teichmann, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Mieses, tournament director.

1911, Chess Masters in International Tournament at San Sabastian

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Akiba Rubinstein, 1918

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September 28 1918

Chess tournament, Berlin Grandmasters, 1918 (between 28 Sept. and 11 Oct.). From left to right: Emanuel Lasker, Akiba Rubinstein, Bernhard Kagan, Carl Schlechter, Siegbert Tarrasch.

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Akiba Rubinstein, 1961

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March 30 1961

The Guardian, London, Greater London, England, Thursday, March 30, 1961

Akiba Rubinstein
The death in Antwerp on March 14 of grandmaster Akiba Rubinstein at the age of 78 closes one of the most unusual of all chess careers. Born as one of 12 children in an Orthodox Jewish family in a Polish ghetto, Rubinstein reached world prominence within a few years of learning the moves and was considered Lasker's leading rival for the world championship after tying with him at St. Petersburg in 1909. His chances were spoilt by the advent of Capablanca and by his own exceptionally shy and withdrawn personality. Around 1930 Rubinstein completely abandoned master chess and spent the remainder of his life in retirement in Belgium.
His name is perpetuated in the openings, where he contributed the Rubinstein variation of the Four Knights and the main line against the Tarrasch Defence to the Queen's Gambit. His reputation as an endgame artist was still greater, and one of the highest compliments which can be paid to an ending is to say that it was worthy of Rubinstein. The rook ending which he won from Lasker at St. Petersburg is one of a number he played which are still outstanding theoretical examples of technique. Although famed mainly for his subtlety and logic, Rubinstein also won some beautiful attacking games, among which the one below is the most brilliant of all.

Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein
5th All-Russian Masters, Lodz (1907), Lodz RUE, rd 6, Dec-26
Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Variation (D32) 0-1

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June 18 1961

The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, June 18, 1961

Akiba Rubenstein, chess great of this century's first three decades, died recently at 79. Chess Review's June issue pays tribute to his memory with two long articles, one on Rubinstein the man (Kmoch) and the other on Rubenstein the chessplayer (P.H. Little). Many of today's younger players seem to know little of Rubenstein's achievements or regard him as a passe old fogy. A collection of his best games is available in Dover's fine paperback series.

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