AFebruary 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.
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.
