Oscar Chajes, 1914

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March 24 1914

The Stirling Observer, Stirling, Central Region, Scotland, Tuesday, March 24, 1914

New York Championship.—The championship tournament of the New York Chess Association has resulted in R. T. Black and J. Rosenthal tieing for first and second places, F. J. Marshall being third, and 0. Chajes fourth. To come out ahead of such a master as Marshall is a proud distinction, and it is curious to note that the American champion has on two former occasions been an unsuccessful competitor in these tournaments.

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Oscar Chajes, 1913

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January 20 1913

The Montana Record-Herald, Helena, Montana, Monday, January 20, 1913

CHESS EXPERTS IN TOURNAMENT
FOURTEEN LEADERS OF GAME MATCH WITS AT NEW YORK CLUB
New York, Jan 20.—The opening round of the second American National Chess tournament was begun yesterday at the Manhattan Chess club with only 14 players entered.
Only 12 men were at the boards, David Janowski, French champion and F. J. Marshall, United States champion, having postponed their match until today. The other contestants are:
J. R. Capablanca of Havana; Oscar Chajes, Chicago; L. B. Zapoleon, Washington; H. Rubinstein, Baltimore; N. T. Whitaker, Philadelphia; Harry Kline, Boston; J. S. Morrison, Toronto; J. Stapfer, New Jersey champion, and Charles Jaffe, A. Kupchik, A. Tenewurzel and S. Rubinstein, New York.
Capablanca, Kupchik and Stapfer each won his game respectively from Liebenstein, Zapoleon and Rubinstein. The contest between Morrison and Chajes, Tenewurzel and Jaffe and Whitaker and Kline all were drawn.

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Oscar Chajes, 1912

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February 29 1912

Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Thursday, February 29, 1912

JAFFE NODS; CHAJES WINS CHESS MATCH
New York, Feb. 29.—Oscar Chajes of Chicago and Charles Jaffe of this city contested the second game of their series at the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club yesterday with the result that the former Western champion won after forty-six moves and tied the score. Jaffe had the white side of a queen's pawn which was developed on both sides with excellent judgment.
Jaffe won a pawn on the thirty-seventh move, as the Chicagoan had jeopardized it in order to leave bishops commanding squares of different color on the board. With only queens and bishops to work with a draw should have been the result, but Jaffe, at his forty-sixth turn, committed a grievous oversight, costing him a piece and the game.

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Oscar Chajes, 1911

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January 23 1911

The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Monday, January 23, 1911

BIG CHESS TOURNEY
BEST PLAYERS IN THE COUNTRY START IN FIRST ROUND.
New York, Jan. 22.—Play in the national chess tournament, in which are entered the best metropolitan experts and representatives of Boston and Chicago, in addition to F. J. Marshall, United States champion, and J. R. Capablanca, Cuban champion, began in New York shortly before noon to-day. Capablanca, who will arrive from Cuba in time to start in the second round to-morrow, was the only absentee and was given his bye in the opening round.
The winners of the opening round were F. Marshall, R. T. Black, champion of the Brooklyn Chess Club; Charles Jaffe, Paul Johner and Oscar Chajes of Chicago, the Illinois State champion. Only one drawn game was recorded and this was credited to A. F. Kreymberg of this city against Albert B. Hodges, the Staten Island player. The players were paired as follows: Morris vs. Johner, Jaffa vs. Baird, Black vs. Smith, Marshall vs. Walcott, Hodges vs. Kreymberg, Chajes vs. Tenennulzel, Capablanca, a bye.
Chief interest centres around Marshall and Walcott, the new England champion. The contest was unexpectedly short, lasting only thirty-four movies, when it was scored to Marshall's credit as a result of Walcott's overstepping the time limit.

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Oscar Chajes, 1927

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January 16 1927

The Pittsburgh Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sunday, January 16, 1927

Kupchik and Chajes Win.
While Kupchik won his game from Jaffe in the third round of the tournament at the I. L. Rice Progressive Chess Club, Chajes disposed of Kashdan in his best style. Both games were at the Ruy Lopez, in which Kupchik and Chajes conducted the white pieces.
The scores:

Abraham Kupchik vs Charles Jaffe
Rice Progressive CC ch (1926), New York, NY, rd 3
Spanish Game: Closed Variations (C84) 1-0

Oscar Chajes vs Isaac Kashdan
Rice Progressive Memorial (1926), New York, NY USA
Spanish Game: Open Variations. Classical Defense (C83) 1-0

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Oscar Chajes, 1928

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February 29 1928

The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, February 29, 1928

FORMER CHAMPION CHESS PLAYER DEAD
New York, Feb. 29 (A.P.)—Oscar Chajes, a familiar figure in chess circles in the United States and abroad died yesterday, following a collapse Monday, after a recent sickness. He was 54 years old.
Chajes was born in Galicia, studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and came to the United States in 1904. In 1909 he won the Western Chess Association championship and in 1911 participated in the international chess tournament at Carlsbad. At various times he was champion of Illinois and New York.
At a tournament in 1918 he was the only competitor to win a game from Jose Capablanca. In 1918 he defeated Janowski, 7 to 5, with 10 games drawn.

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March 01 1928

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, March 01, 1928

Oscar Chajes Is Buried by Hermann Helms
Demise of Oscar Chajes.
Oscar Chajes, for many years financial secretary of the I. L. Rice Progressive Chess Club of this city, of which he has held the championship in addition to being champion at different times of New York State, Illinois and the Western Chess Association, died early Tuesday at Bellevue Hospital in his 55th year. He had only recently been convalescing from an illness and was found Monday unconscious in his room at 15 E. 21st st., Manhattan. He died without regaining consciousness.
The burial took place yesterday afternoon from the Alpert Funeral Chapel, 216 Lenox ave., Manhattan, with representatives of the leading chess clubs in attendance. The interment was in the plot of the Abraham Goldfader Mutual Benefit Association at the Riverside Cemetery, Rochelle Park, N. J.
Chajes was born in the city of Brody, Galacia, Austrian Poland, but had been a resident of this country since 1904 and a citizen since 1910. Abroad he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, where an uncle of his, Rabbi Chajes, died recently. He won the Western championship in 1909, and he was a participant in the international tournaments at Carlsbad in 1911 and 1923. When champion in the Manhattan Chess Club in 1918, Chajes defeated David Janowski in a match by 7 to 3, with 10 draws. Chajes was the only one of 14 competitors able to win a game from Jose R. Capablanca in the Rice-Memorial Tournament in 1916, in which he won third prize.

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Oscar Chajes, 1926

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August 19 1926

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Thursday, August 19, 1926

Chess Wizards Meet Here For U.S. Tournament
Chess champions from all over the country are arriving in the city for the annual convention of the Western Chess association, and the national chess tournament coupled with the championship tournament of the Western association at the Hotel La Salla from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2. Eighteen hundred dollars in prizes is offered.
The contestants as already listed are Frank J. Marshall of Brooklyn, N. Y., present national champion; Carlos Torre of Mexico City, champion of Mexico; Geza Maroczy, champion of Hungary; J. W. Showalter of Georgetown, Ky. former U. S. champion; Newell W. Banks of Detroit, checker champion of the United States; Oscar Chajes of New York, former western champion; Samuel D. Factor of Chicago, former western champion; A. J. Fink of San Francisco, champion of the Pacific coast; Lewis J. Isaacs of Chicago, former champion of Illinois, and, Edward Lasker of Chicago, former western champion.

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Oscar Chajes, 1910

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February 13 1910

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, February 13, 1910

Chajes Wins Twelve Games.
Oscar Chajes, champion of the Western Chess association, met sixteen players in a simultaneous exhibition last Monday at the Chicago Chess and Checker club. Of these he defeated twelve and lost to four. The winners were: H. Abrahams, D. Hutchinson, E. Michelsen, and T. L. Reeve, while W. L. Cox, W. R. Doolittle, H. F. Doyle, A. J. Ebner, J. S. Junkin, G. H. Knover, M. Levy, W. J. Platten, F. Powell, J. Shallcross, and N. Spira lost their games.

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Oscar Chajes, 1925

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January 04 1925

Times Union, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, January 04, 1925

CHAJES RETAINS LEAD.
Oscar Chajes, by defeating J. Berman in the fifth round, maintained his clean record in the championship tournament at the I. L. Rice Progressive Chess Club yesterday. His score is 5-0. H. Steiner is a close second with 4½-½.
Steiner, after winning his adjourned game from Berman, drew with Mishook. C. Jaffe, 3½-½, and A. Kupchik, 1-1, are third and fourth, respectively.

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Oscar Chajes, 1909

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August 21 1909

Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saturday, August 21, 1909

CHESS TOURNAMENT
Chajes Takes the Lead in Western Tourney
Chicago Expert Wins Both His Matches in Play of Friday.
Champion Elliott Loses and Now Out of the Running.
Several things happened during the ninth and tenth rounds in the chess tournament of the Western Chess association at Excelsior yesterday. Chajes, defeating Coombes in the morning and Stacy in the afternoon, made himself leader by half a point. Goldsmith lost to Erdeky in the afternoon and dropped back. He also has an adjourned game with Schraeder. Widmeyer lost to Uedeman in the afternoon in his first weak game. Elliott lost both games, one to Wolbrecht and one to Blake, thus practically cutting out his chance of retaining the championship. With an adjourned game to play with Goldsmith which looks like a draw, each having a knight and two pawns, E. F. Schraeder practically is practically tied with Chajes for first place, making this tussle between St. Louis and Chicago. Goldsmith and Uedeman, with seven points each, are by no means out of the running.

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Oscar Chajes, 1924

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February 04 1924

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, February 04, 1924

Foreign Chess Stars to Sail For U.S. Soon
New York, Feb. 3—[Special]—Plans for the New York International Chess Masters' tournament opening at Hotel Alamac March 16, have progressed so far that arrangements have been completed for the five foreign experts, who will make a special trip here to compete, to sail on the steamship President Cleveland of the United States lines, leaving Hamburg Feb. 27.
Dr. Emanuel Lasker, Richard Red, Dr. S. Tartakower, E. Bogoljubov, and Geza Maroczy constitute the foreign contingent. All of these players are certain to come. A place will be left open for Sir George Thomas of London, the British chess champion, who has not yet responded to the invitation.
Alexander Alekhine, the Russian champion, now is in Chicago. Jose R. Capablanca of Havana, the world's champion, expects to be here about March 10. The other experts are in this country. They are Frank J. Marshall, David Janowski, Edward Lasker, A. Kupchik, and O. Chajes. The competition will be limited to twelve contestants.

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Oscar Chajes, 1922

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April 18 1922

New-York Tribune, New York, New York, Tuesday, April 18, 1922

Announce Chess Team to Play Argentine Club
A powerful team of six experts has been selected by the Manhattan Chess Club for the cable match with the Argentine Chess Club of Buenos Ayres to be contested next Sunday and play in which will last from 10 o'clock in the morning until midnight. The tournament committee of the club, consisting of Robert Raubitschek (chairman) and Leonard B. Meyer, yesterday gave out the following list as the official team:
Board 1, Oscar Chajes; 2, Roy T. Black; 3, Albert Marder; 4, Jacob Rosenthal; 5, Alfred Schroeder; 6, Harold M. Phillips. Substitutes, F. K. Perkins, L. B. Meyers and Robert Raubitschek. Walter Penn Shipley, president of the Franklin Chess Club, of Philadelphia, will act as referee of the match.

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Oscar Chajes, 1908

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July 27 1908

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Monday, July 27, 1908

The match between L. Uedemann and O. Chajes is proceeding steadily at Chicago, Uedemann having won the first and second games, and Chajes the third. The players do not consume the limit of twenty moves per hour. The first game was an Evans Gambit, offered by Chajes; the second a Petroff defense, and in the third Uedemann declined an Evans Gambit, but lost the game. Following is the score of the second partie:

Louis Uedemann vs Oscar Chajes
Match (1908), Chicago, IL USA, rd 2
Russian Game: Modern Attack. Center Variation (C43) 1-0

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Oscar Chajes, 1921

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May 29 1921

The Washington Post, Washington, District of Columbia, Sunday, May 29, 1921

Chajes Loses to Hodges.
Two of the York city experts were matched in a recent interclub contest in Manhattan, and Hodges, by some brilliant play, gained an advantage in midgame which he maintained, winning 34 moves by the following score:

Oscar Chajes vs Albert Hodges
Rice Progressive CC - Marshall CC m (1921), New York, NY USA, rd 2, Feb-12
Philidor Defense: General (C41) 0-1

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Oscar Chajes, 1907

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November 03 1907

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, November 03, 1907

Oscar Chajes to Give Exhibition Open to All on Tuesday Evening.
By L. UEDEMANN.
At the West Side Chess club, which now has its quarters at 211 Twelfth street, the winter season was opened last Monday by Einer Michelsen, the young champion of the Western Chess association, who met twelve of the members in simultaneous play. The single player annexed ten scalps, but the other games went against him.
Tuesday evening the club's champion, Oscar Chajes, will give a similar exhibition and players from any part of the city are invited to take a board, but, to be sure of a game, must bring their boards and men. The club is arranging for a handicap tournament which style of contest, in most chess clubs is of greater advantage to all classes of players than even tournaments.
The tournament committee of the Chicago Chess and Checker club has arranged a program for every Monday of the season and this night will be open to non-members. There will be simultaneous play Nov. 11, Dec. 4, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, and March 9. The above dates are at the same time special “ladies nights.” Lectures on openings or other chess talks take place Nov. 18, Dec. 16, Jan. 26, Feb. 17 and March 16.

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Oscar Chajes, 1905

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Oscar Chajes, Portrait, estimated 1903-1905.

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May 21 1905

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, May 21, 1905

Brooklyn To Play Chess With Chicago Experts.
Telegraphic Match for Sixteen a Side Scheduled Between Eastern Team and Local Cracks for Memorial Day.
[By E. Kemeny.]
A telegraphic match, sixteen players a side, between the Brooklyn and the Chicago Chess clubs is scheduled for Memorial day. The two clubs have had two similar encounters, each club winning one match. Dr. E. Lasker, who will be the referee, probably will be in Chicago at the time of play.
Lasker's simultaneous play at the Chicago Chess club was a success principally on account of the numerous pretty games that came about. Out of thirty-seven games he lost but four.

Emanuel Lasker vs Oscar Chajes
Simul, 37b (1905) (exhibition), Chicago, IL USA, May-06
Center Game: Accepted (C21) 0-1

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Oscar Chajes, 1923

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February 16 1923

Oscar Chajes, Passport Photo

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Oscar Chajes, Passport Application

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April 27 1923

Jacob Bernstein and Oscar Chajes, Carlsbad Chess Tournament, April 27 to May 22, 1923.

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Oscar Chajes, 1918

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September 12, 1918

Oscar Chajes, Military Registration Card

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Oscar Chajes, 1915

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April 22 1915

Chess Masters Off On Three Weeks' Grind 22 Apr 1915, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com

CHESS MASTERS OFF ON THREE WEEKS' GRIND
With Capablanca and Marshall showing the way, the eight experts in the chess masters tournament are playing their third round at the Hotel Grenoble, in Manhattan, today. In the photograph herewith, showing the opening of the congress, the following well known players and enthusiasts appear: Seated in front (left to right) J. R. Capablanca, Eduard Lasker, J. Bernstein, F. J. Marshall. Seated in rear (left to right) A. Kupchik, O. Chajes, A. B. Hodges, E. Michelsen. Standing (left to right) G. Koehler, R. J. Brown, L. Rosen, F. P. Beynon, John L. Clark, Hermann Helms, Frank I. Cohen, Julius Finn, Hartwig Cassel, W. M. de Visser, A. Martinez, Frank Rice Marshall, Mrs. F. J. Marshall. (Courtesy of Pathe News.)

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January 05 1920

New-York Tribune, New York, New York, Monday, January 05, 1920

Chajes and Black Tie In Chess Title Match
Largely owing to the efforts of Oscar Chajes, who defeated R. T. Black in the seventh round, A. Kupchik, state chess champion, was enabled to tie with Black for first place in the annual championship tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club yesterday. Kupchik had O. W. Field as opponent, the latter being defeated in forty-five moves.
M. D. Hago scored against Pokorny by default and tied with Chajes for third place, half a point behind the leaders. The game between Chajes and Black, in which Black adopted the Petroff defense, was a fine struggle, lasting sixty-nine moves.

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May 25 1919

New York Herald, New York, New York, Sunday, May 25, 1919

CHESS BY TELEGRAPH
TEST OF ENDURANCE
Manhattan Club to Compete With Capital City Players.
With twenty of the beat players to be found in New York and Washington and ten on a side, the Manhattan Chess Club of this city and the Capital City Chess Club of Washington will contest the much talked of match by telegraph next Friday, play beginning at noon and lasting, if necessary, until midnight. Besides being a test of skill on the checkered boards, it will assume, in a way, the nature of a test of endurance, because the contestants will be tied down to their tables at each end of the wire for twelve hours straight, with the exception of an hour for supper.
The officials of the match will be: Justice Mahlon Pitney of Washington, referee; H. Helms of New York, adjudicator; A. Lazinsk of New York, umpire at Washington; William T. Miller of Boston, umpire at New York. The lists of players from which the teams will be picked are the following:
Manhattan C. C.— R. T. Black, J. R. Capablanca, O. Chajes, J. Finn, A. Kupchik, S. Lubowsky, L. B. Meyer, F. K. Perkins, H. M. Phillips, R. Raubitschek, L. Rosen, J. Rosenthal, A. Schroeder.
Capital City C. C.— E. B. Adams, S. M. Ballou, J. W. Byler, A. W. Fox, E. M. Knapp, R. F. Lovell, W. L. Moorman, C. E. Norwood, V. Sournin, I. S. Turover, F. B. Walker, N. T. Whitaker, L. B. Zapoleon.

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Oscar Chajes, 1917

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February 04 1917

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, February 04, 1917

Chajes Defeats Twelve In Simultaneous Play
Playing against eighteen opponents at the rooms of the Rice Progressive Chess Club, Oscar Chajes, the international expert, made a score of 12 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws. The four successful opponents of the performer were M. Brett, D. Wolsky, H. Garfinkel and J. Grumbach. S. B. Muldofsky, the City College star, and William Witt drew their games.
The club's handicap tournament is under way with sixteen entries. The championship tournament will soon be started, and many of the leading metropolitan players will participate.

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Oscar Chajes, 1916

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January 16 1916

The Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee, Sunday, January 16, 1916

Memorial Chess Tourney.
New York, Jan. 15.—Twelve international chess experts will take part in the opening of the Isaac L. Rice memorial chess masters tournament, at the Brooklyn Chess club tomorrow. The entries are David Janowski, Serbia; Jose R. Capablanca, Cuba; B. Kostic, Belgrade; A. W. Fox, Washington; N. W. Banks, Detroit; F. K. Perkins, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; A. B. Hedges, A. Schroeder, J. Bernstein, O. Chajes, A. Kupchik and B. Tenenwurzel, of New York.
Capablanca is the favorite with Janowski second. The first five rounds will be played next week at various New York clubs. Succeeding rounds will be played in New York and at New Haven, Conn.

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