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August 31 1952
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, August 31, 1952
Even Charles Boyer has taken time out from his film lovemaking to order kings and pawns around on the checkered square, Steiner said. So has Linda Darnell, he added.
With Hollywoodesque news journalists and chess players alike taking pointers from Charles Boyer's role in “Gaslight” (1944) on how to better manufacture creative fiction about Bobby Fischer in mainstream news media.
August 1955
U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. Valley Chess Club (seated) W. Male, J. Drago, G. Norman, E. Malmuth, P. Senge and I. Talmadge (standing) Ralph Hagedorn, Lou Pinson, Charles Boyer, Lynn Mercy, John A. McCardle, A. Manson, B. Slate, William Melworm, G. MacMahon and Frederic Dunn.
U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. 1955 Valley “B” Team (seated) Lou Pinson, G. Norman (standing) Lynn Mercy, William Melworm, Charles Boyer, John A. McCardle and Ralph Hagedorn.
March 26 1951
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, March 26, 1951
DR. PIERRE MACY, president of the Charlotte Chess Club, is shown here looking over the prizes which will be awarded during the North Carolina Chess association open championship tournament to be held in the Hotel Selwyn April 7 and 8.—(Observer Staff photo—Dumbell.)
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, March 26, 1951
CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY SET FOR APRIL
North Carolina Chess Aces Will Converge On Charlotte
BY WINK LOCKLAIR
Observer Staff Writer
Chess, apparently one of the few games in the world which has not so far been the subject of a probe or a scandal will attract a large number of visitors to the city during the first week end in April when the open championship tournament of the North Carolina Chess association gets under way in the Hotel Selwyn.
Host for the two-day event will be the Charlotte Chess club, a fairly new organization whose members gather every Tuesday evening at 7:30 in room 111 of the Y.M.C.A. The clubs roster is made up of businessmen, lawyers, and salesmen as well as some of the younger crowd, all in all a pretty staid, gentle group of men.
The game itself is considered the most cosmopolitan of all games having been invented in the East, introduced into the West, and now played all over the world. “It has often been said that life is just a game of chess and those who have made a study of the game and its history can well agree: it represents the battle of life of here and hereafter.” says George Goodwin one of the game's local enthusiasts, treasurer, and acting secretary of the Charlotte Chess club.
NOAH'S ARK TRAP
“There is an ancient story that goes back to the days of the great flood when Noah built his ark. The story goes that, to while away the dreary hours on the ark and to steel themselves against the raging waters, Noah and his sons got into the habit of playing chess. One of the games which was recorded and used as a warning for the future has since become known as the Noah's Ark Trap. This is a warning that could be well used today.
“As many folks know the Russians are the world champion chess players, Uncle Joe Stalin and his men are trying every way they know to lead the United States into the Noah's Ark Trap. If they could have their way we would all be slaves and subjects of Russian dictatorship. But we are now awake and if the Russians don't watch out they'll walk into another kind of trap more severe than Noah's Ark.” warns Mr. Goodwin.
The trap Mr. Goodwin was referring to is known as the Legal's Trap in which greed overcomes judgment and a complete checkmate comes about with strokes from the bishop and the knight.
Because of its relation to the movements of armies chess has been highly regarded by military men since the reign of Emperor Charlemagne and even rulers before him. A complete set, including pawns, can represent the Crusaders and the Saracens, with the white pieces symbolic of the Christians and the black ones symbolizing the Turks. Tables for the local tournament will be set up with various kinds of sets some very valuable with hand carved pieces, others carved from rare wood representative of ancient wars when knights in armor went out with their armies to fight for the protection of their king and country.
Strategy in chess has been handed down for generations. There are many planes of attack and maneuver both as to openings middle game and end play. In some of the tournaments many hours are necessary for the completion of one move. However the local contest will require 50 moves in two hours.
“Chess players resemble two generals fighting it out. It is a form of battle for life between those who would dominate and those who refuse to submit,” Mr. Goodwin points out.
YOUNGSTER TO PLAY
If this is the case, one of the generals is going to be considerably younger than most commanders. He is 15-year-o1d Kit Crittenden, a high school student from Raleigh, who, in 1948, became the nation's youngest state chess champion. He has been a member of the Raleigh club for some time and is expected to give most of the old-timers stiff competition.
The local tournament was arranged by Henry A. Gaede, vice president of the club and Ephraim Solkoff, president of the North Carolina Chess association. Entries have been coming in from Raleigh, Durham, Wilmington, High Point, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, as well as from Charleston, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Rock Hill in South Carolina. Entries from Michigan and Maryland have also been received. All in all it will be an interesting two days of battle for the prizes which include a handsome chess set, a set of clocks, and a copy of the book “Royal Masters in Battle Royal”.
June 29 1990
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, Friday, June 29, 1990
UNCC French Professor Pierre Macy Dies
By Ted Mellnik
Staff Writer
Dr. Pierre Macy, a French professor who was the first full-time UNC Charlotte faculty member to hold a doctoral degree, died Wednesday, June 27, 1990, at Anderson, S.C., Memorial Hospital.
He was 90.
Dr. Macy came to Charlotte in 1949 from William and Mary College, where he was chairman of the foreign language department for eight years.
He came to be a partner with his brother in the Devonde Macy dry cleaners on West 6th Street uptown. But he also began teaching at three-year-old Charlotte College. The school was the forerunner of UNCC and held classes at the old Central High school.
Dr. Macy, a short man with thick glasses and a charming manner, was head of UNCC's Romance languages department until 1966.
“He was tactful, considerate, hardworking person,” said foreign language Professor Paul Saman. “He was very professional, and very dedicated.”
Dr. Macy in 1965 became UNCC's first commencement marshal, leading the procession of professors and guests each spring at graduation.
He retired from the university in 1969, then moved to Clemson, S.C.
UNCC's language building, originally known as L Building, was named the Dr. Pierre Macy Building in 1971. In a tribute, the faculty committee said the language department was “clearly one of the solid blocks of foundation of the new university.”
Dr. Macy, a native of Nancy, France, fought in the French army in World War I. He first came to the United States in 1920, then returned to France in the 1930s.
He was educated at universities in Nancy, Dijon and Paris.
Dr. Macy served in the French Underground in 1940 during the German occupation, helping slip Allied pilots out of France by way of Spain and Portugal.
He was captured by the Gestapo, but he managed to flee Europe with his family on a boat from Portugal in 1941.
Survivors are his wife, Charlotte of Clemson; son, Jacques Macy of Pendleton, S.C.; daughter, Mrs. Nicky Stange of Savannah; brother, Roger Macy of Nice, France.
Memorial service is private. Duckett Funeral Home of Clemson is in charge.
November 24 1962
Abrahams (White) Knox (Black) 24 Nov 1962, Sat Nantwich Chronicle (Nantwich, Cheshire, England) Newspapers.com
Nantwich Chronicle, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, Saturday, November 24, 1962
Below is a game between young Victor Knox and the British Championship player, Gerald Abrahams, taken from last season's Lancashire Championship, semi-final round. Knox is Black.
Gerald Abrahams (white) vs. Victor Knox (black)
Catalan Opening
Knox, with many examinations and cricket matches to occupy him, defaulted the final.
December 06 1961
Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, Wednesday, December 06, 1961
Liverpool’s most distinguished chess-player Gerald Abrahams is also a distinguished chess writer His “The Chess Mind” opened new vistas in what might I suppose be called the philosophy of chess and he has also to his credit at least one other chess book in a more routine vein. Now comes Technique in Chess (Bell, 18s 6d) which must stand somewhere between the orthodox and the exotic in chess literature.
In purpose it is clearly austere. It seeks to examine those necessary but not always sparkling passages of the game which depend on exactitude and information rather than flair and inspiration. But Mr. Abrahams himself is so much a player of flair that all his illustrations are illuminated with comments that arise not from bare technique but from chess imagination of a high order. If the effect of this is to make apparent rich potentialities in apparently routine positions that surely deserves our gratitude.
WHITE KNIGHT.
April 20 1958
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Texas, Sunday, April 20, 1958
Chess Players I Have Met by George Koltanowski
The principal English players of the present day can hardly be accused of having polychromatic personalities—in fact they are decidedly sub-fuse. But there is one rousing and pleasing exception, and that is Gerald Abrahams.
He is a lawyer and practices in Liverpool. He played for Oxford against Cambridge in 1927 and two years later was considered good enough to take part in the first of many British Championships that he has adorned. “He played,” we are told, “with a youthful vigor that aroused admiration even when it failed to succeed.” His style of play, it is clear, was already formed, and the passing of years has not changed it in the least.
“Toujours l'attaque” is his motto. Curiously enough, he generally plays rather stolid openings, though, as we shall see, he sometimes makes incursions into Tartakower's preserves. But after some Queen's Pawn game has dragged its weary length for some 15 moves or so, Abrahams spies an opportunity for a demonstration. A few more moves and all is changed; there are alarums and excursions; Bishops and Knights hurry to KN5 or KR6; Rooks are left en prise with the utmost abandon—in short, there is a devil-may-care melee. Very often it succeeds, for Abrahams has imagination and resource; but there are occasions when he will look round a shattered field and say, in almost an injured tone, “Why, I'm two pieces down—it's hardly worth my going on, is it?” “Talent without discipline” is how Golombek once described his play. He will never, I think, win the British championship, but he will always be one of the most dangerous of opponents.
A Genial Player
In appearance Abrahams has retained most of his youthful slimness, and his curly black hair is only beginning to grey above his plump and cheerful face. He is one of the most genial of chess players. He has the shining good humor that accompanies self-contentment; for he knows all the answers, and is “assured of certain certainties.” He beams optimism over the chess-board. In the Hastings Premier of 1952 he was in the rear of the field. “That Abrahams did badly,” wrote Golombek, “the tournament table shows. But so powerful and full of color is his personality that throughout the tournament I had the impression that either he was in the lead or else engaged in some super-Premier tournament conducted way up above my head at a speed faster than sound and with a brilliance too dazzling for the human eye.”
It is not only a player that Abrahams has won renown at chess. He is the inventor of the Abrahams variation in the semi-Slav Defense to the Queen's Gambit Declined. It runs:
1. P-Q4 P-Q4
2. P-QB4 P-K3
3. N-QB3 P-QB3
4. N-B3 PxP
5. P-QR4 B-N5
6. B-Q2 P-QR4
7. P-K3 P-QN4
8. PxP BxN
9. BxB PxP
10. P-QN3 B-N2
11. PxP P-N5
12. B-N2 N-KB3
It has been much under a cloud, however, since Abrahams played it against Gligoric in 1952 and never recovered. For though Black has established two dangerous passed pawns on the Queen's side, White has an excellent opportunity for a King's side attack with two ranking Bishops, of which Gligoric made good use.
Abrahams's other contribution to chess is as a writer. His book “The Chess Mind” was published in 1951. Written in a fresh and racy style, it is most readable; and though its incursions into psychology are sometimes a little naive, some of the illustrative games—and their annotating—are a delight.
Two of his own games follow. I include his defeat by Dr. Euwe at a Congress at Bournemouth in 1939 because it seems such an amusing example of “Dignity and Impudence.” Dignity opened with 1. P-Q4, and Impudence replied with 1. … P-QN4, which is known as the Polish Gambit and usually confined to skittles. The sequel was speedy annihilation.
February 08 1940
The Minneapolis Star, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday, February 08, 1940
Four Winners in Chess Exhibition
O. K. Klock, K. Auerbach, S. Engstrom, Dr. L. Knapp and R. G. Konkel were winners in a simultaneous chess exhibition at the Minneapolis Chess an Checker club in which Robert Ott of St. Paul played 15 contestants. R. Rice obtained a draw.
July 31 1979
The Minneapolis Star, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday, July 31, 1979
Knapp, Dr. Lester T., age 80 yrs. of Christmas Lake, Excelsior. Survived by wife, Marjorie M., son & daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. (Nancy) Knapp of St. Paul; grandsons, Andrew T., Peter R., and Stephen H., all of Minneapolis; brother. Dr. Milande of Excelsior; 2 great-grandchildren. Memorial service Tues. 2 pm at the Excelsior Congregational Church. No visitation. Memorials preferred to American Heart Association or charity of donors choice. Arrangements by Huber Funeral Home, Excelsior.
February 16 1942
February 16, 1942 Starr M Cook, in the U.S., World War II Draft Cards
April 05 1957
Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Friday, April 05, 1957
Cook, Klotz Lead Chess
Leading in the race for the Phoenix metropolitan area chess championship after three rounds of play are Starr M. Cook, 3121 E. Palm Lane, and Ben Klotz, 926 E. Taylor.
After Wednesday's play, the two had stacked up two wins and one draw each. Following closely are Dr. Frank Honsik, Mable Burlingame, F. W. Heineman, William Fox, and Philip Luks, each with two wins and one loss.
Two rounds, to be played in the next two weeks, remain in the contest. Leading currently in the restricted section play is Charles E. Hunter, with three wins and no losses.
The contest, sponsored by the Encanto Chess Club, is being played at the Encanto Park Den.
July 27 1959
Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Monday, July 27, 1959
Chess By Radio—Ten members of the Encanto Chess Club deliberate moves while Jim Jeffries, 17, of 105 E. Lamar, maintains two-way radio contact with opponents in China Lake, Calif. Seated, from left, are Danny and David Gollub, Valentine Tirman, and Jim Smith. Calling the moves to radio operator is Starr Cook, standing, secretary-treasurer of the Encanto Chess Club.—Photo by Frank Fafara.
Hams Relay Moves
Long-Distance Chess Play Moves Made By Radio
“K6HPC at China Lake…this is W7FMZ. King six Henry Peter Charley at China Lake…this is William seven Fox Mike Zebra.”
This begins a chess game?
If you're playing a team match with China Lake, Calif., it does.
Another Phoenix first took place yesterday. Jim Jeffries, 17, of 105 E. Lamar and Gary Hamman, 17, of 1420 E. Missouri served as ham radio operator “go betweens” for a broadcast chess match between the Encanto Chess Club and the China Lake Chess Club of China Lake, Calif.
The Phoenix end of the match was played in the Jeffries home.
Radio contact was made at 1:32 p.m. Constant naming of moves continued throughout the afternoon until signals were disrupted by last night's storm.
The chess teams matched 10 of their best men against each other in championship games. Chess players ranging in age from 27 to 72 became absorbed in matches, the longest of which were still being played at the time of interruption six hours later.
Manning the chess boards for Phoenix were Jim Smith, Valentine Tirman, David and Danny Gollub, Starr Cook, Charles Gray, F. L. Kelsey, Tom Cunningham, Vic Masters, and Joe Talla. All have been impatiently awaiting the match planned since May.
“Although the constant chatter doesn't allow for much thinking, the radio set makes for much faster play,” pointed out Tom Cunningham, vice president of the Encanto Chess Club.
Team matches by telegraph played Oct. 12, 1953, with Albuquerque, N. M., lasted until 4 a.m. the following day.
Although yesterday afternoon's matches were not completed entirely, Starr Cook, secretary treasurer of the club, assured members that play will be continued “just as soon as I can contact China Lake and set another date.”
April 11 1976
Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday, April 11, 1976
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Starr M. Cook of Mesa was celebrated Saturday.
The couple has lived permanently in arizona since 1950 and now live at Apache Wells Mobile Home Park.
They were born in Kalamazoo, Mich., and were married on April 10, 1926, in Elkhart, Ind.
Mrs. Opal (nee Babcock) Cook is a former member fo the Order of Eastern Star in Kalamazoo and, as does her husband, loves to play golf.
Cook is now retired. He was employed with Arizona Messenger as a printing pressman. His hobbies include baseball, chess and checkers. For 30 years he has been a member of the Elks Lodge, No. 2291 in Sedona and is a life member and past master of the Masons, Anchor S.O. 87, in Kalamazoo.
July 20 1994
Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday, July 20, 1994
Starr M. Cook, 95, of Mesa, a retired printing pressman with Arizona Printing, died July 15, 1994. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and was a member of the Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his wife, Mildred. Services: 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary, 719 N. 27th Ave.
January 13 1938
The Herald-News, Passaic, New Jersey, Thursday, January 13, 1938
Rutherford Club to Play West Point Cadets Chess
RUTHERFORD— The Progressive Chess Club with whom the former Rutherford Chess Club joined forces will play a match against a select team of cadets on Saturday.
The team will be entertained by the cadets. Play will start after dinner.
A hard struggle is expected and the club will line up the best possible team against the cadets, including such veteran players as W. S. Pontier, Richard H. Bots and Adam Wetzel.
H. Kussmaul, former State champion, and F. Bartholy, former local champion, will be absent. Their place at first board will be taken by M. E. Teichmann.
The team will be housed overnight at West Point and return Sunday.
Walter Wootton, president of the club, arranged the match.
May 20 1959
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Wednesday, May 20, 1959
Chess Players Battle to Draw
A 16-year-old junior chess player wrestled the defending' champion to a draw to tie for the lead after the first half of the Broome County Chess Championship at the IBM Country Club.
Teenager Anthony Serafini stunned tableside observers Sunday by playing a draw with Chester Hinaman, who won the county title at the most recent contest in 1954.
Neither player has lost. They share records of 2½-½.
Mr. Hinaman opened his title defense Friday night with a win over Robert Boughton, who won the recent Watson Trophy guest tournament at IBM with a 10-1 record.
Close behind the champion and the youngster after Sunday's play were another 16-year-old, Martin Nitka, Fred Bartholy, Andrew Krisko and Mr. Boughton, all with 2-1 marks. Other standings:
Wilson White and another Junior, 20-year-old Philip Sharpsteen, both l½-l½; Zoltan Czmor, Norman Stockdale, 16-year-old Charles Little and 15-year-old Paul Okonewski, all 1-2, and Bernard Cawley, youngest in the field at 12, 0-3.
Charles H. Parker, recent winner of the Watson Trophy Tournament for IBM employes, was a round behind the field with a perfect 2-0 record. He substituted for Peter Andrevev, who withdrew with an 0-2 record.
Play will resume Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, when the title will be decided.
December 05 1980
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Friday, December 05, 1980
Frederick E. Bartholy of Binghamton
Frederick E. Bartholy, 81, of 41 Floral Ave., Binghamton, died Thursday evening at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Vivienne) Verklin, Pittsburgh, Pa., Mrs. Steven (Anita) Johnson, Grand Junction, Colo.; also several grandchildren. He was a member of the Boulevard United Methodist Church. He was the Patent Counsel for Ansco and Ozalid Divisions of GAF, until he retired in 1965. He was a retired Lt. Colonel in the United States Army. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to the Upstate Medical Center for Research purposes.
Memorial services will be held Sunday, December 7, at 11 a.m. at the Boulevard United Methodist Church. Inurnment will be in the Arlington National Cemetery. Arrangements are by the Thomas J. Shea Funeral Home, Inc., 137 Robinson St., Binghamton.
July 22 1956
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, July 22, 1956
Champions Compete In U.S. Open Tourney
The tournament for the Open Championship of the United States Chess Federation got under way Monday night in Oklahoma City with 115 chess players gathered from all parts of the United States and Mexico.
Arthur B. Bisguier, U.S. champion, was among the winners in the first round, defeating Thomas Jenkins of Detroit. Edmar Mednis, New York State champion, won from F. E. Bartholy of Binghamton, N.Y. Newly crowned Junior Champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn started with a victory over F. Swan of Midwest City, Okla.
The upset of the opening round was the defeat of Col. Jose J. Araiza, Mexican champion, by Dr. Steven J. Shaw, professor of economics at the University of Florida. Another surprise was the defeat of Dr. Peter Lapiken of Los Angeles by relatively inexperienced Rex V. Wilcox of Salinas, Cal.
Other winners in the early play were Gilbert Ramirez of San Francisco, James T. Sherwin, Anthony E. Santasiere, Paul Brandts and Jeremiah F. Donovan of New York, Ivan Romanenko of Plainfield, N.J., Edgar T. McCormick of Orange, N. J., Robert Steinmeyer of St. Louis and A. DiCamillo of Philadelphia.
Nicholas Rossolimo, who won the 1955 Open Championship in Long Beach, was expected to defend his title but withdrew at the last moment. Samuel Reshevsky and Larry Evans, high scorers in 1955, are also among the missing this year.
Among the Californians in the tournament, who will undoubtedly make their presence felt, are Sven Almgren, Ray Martin and Sonia Graf Stevenson of Los Angeles and Guthrie McClain, Henry Gross, W. G. Addison, S. H. Van Gelder and W. Bills of San Francisco.
April 07 1953
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Tuesday, April 07, 1953
Multiple Chess Play
Frederick E. Bartholy of the Binghamton Chess Club will take on all comers in simultaneous play at a meeting of the YMCA Chess Club in Room 11 of the “Y” at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow.
August 30 1952
The Post-Standard, Syracuse, New York, Saturday, August 30, 1952
Bartholy Captures State Chess Match
Frederick W. Bartholy of Vestal won the experts tournament at New York State Chess Association Congress at Cazenovia yesterday, scoring five and a half points out of seven.
Mr. Bartholy is a patent attorney with Ansco Co., Binghamton. A member of the International Business Machines Corp. Chess Club in Endicott, he is a friend of International Chess Master Richard Reti, a former schoolmate, who taught him the moves.
Other high scores were made Alton Cook of New York city B. L. Guckemus of Syracuse, who tied for second place with five points; James Joyner of Cortland, who had three points, and Donald D. Down of Syracuse, two and half points.
Leading the championship tourney which ends tomorrow is John W. Collins of New York city, who has six points. He is a half point ahead of Max Pavey of New York city, former state champion.
October 11 1961
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Wednesday, October 11, 1961
Broome County Chess Tourney Starts Oct. 20; Bartholy Defends
Fred Bartholy defends his Broome County Chess championship this month, in weekend play at IBM Country Club Oct. 20-21-22 and 27-28-29.
The tourney is open to all-Broome players for a $5 entry fee plus $5 deposit. Play will be under the 6-round Swiss system, with first-round pairings determined by ballot, those thereafter by matching scores.
Winner receives a $50 prize plus the trophy, won the first two times by Chet Hinamon of Oakdale before Ansco patent attorney Bartholy kept the cup from being retired last year.
Play will begin at 7 p. m. in Friday-Saturday sessions, 2 p. m. on Sundays. There will be other prizes in both senior and junior play. Entries can be filed by calling Robert Boughton at SW 7-7892 evenings.
HAROLD EVANS, the Binghamtonian who is president of the New York State Chess Association, will give a simultaneous-match exhibition at the IBM Chess Club meeting this Friday. Evans was 1960 county runnerup.
October 21 1961
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Saturday, October 21, 1961
Bartholy, Gawley Advance in Chess
Defending champion Fred Bartholy and defending junior titlist Bernard Gawley were among the winners in first-round matches of the Broome County Chess Tournament last night at the IBM Fieldhouse.
The second of five rounds will be played tonight.
First-round results:
Harold Evans def. Al Schreiber, Chet Hinaman def. Duane Janowski, Bartholy def. Norman Bennett, Norman Stockdale def. William Gotiwald, Charles Parker def. James Little, Robert Boughton def. Andrew Krisko, Gawley def. Joe Altman, Peter Andreyew def. Walter Hunt, Russell Allen drew with William Sharpsteen.
November 06 1961
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Monday, November 06, 1961
Fred Bartholy, the Broome County chess champion of the tournament which ended last Sunday, was honored yesterday along with other winners at a dinner at the Hotel Frederick.
It was Bartholy's second straight win in the fourth annual tourney. Others who were presented prizes by Eugene C. Gerhart, the master of ceremonies, were Chet Hartman (second place), Harold Evans (third place) and Ricky Gawley (junior champion).
1942
Frederick Eduard Bartholy, Special Engineer Detachment, Los Alamos, New Mexico, World War II.
May 23 1960
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Monday, May 23, 1960
Snows The Under
Chess Champion Wins 38 of 41 Simultaneous Games
Chess players of the Southern Tier still are nursing their wounds after a mass assault on the national rapid transit champion at the IBM Field House.
James E. Sherwin, the champion, took on 41 hopefuls in simultaneous play and beat 38 of them, losing only to John Gerhart of Oneonta and playing two draws.
Chester L. Hinaman of 216 Oakdale Road, Oakdale, the Broome County champion, managed one of the drawn games during five hours of play, which ended at 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
Mr. Sherwin, a 26-year-old New York City attorney, also was held to no decision by Frederick E. Bartholy of 54 Orton Avenue, a patent attorney who was the winner of the last IBM Chess Club guest tourney.
The IBM Chess Club was host for the matches. Club officials said Mr. Sherwin achieved an unusually high percentage of wins for simultaneous play.
November 08 1960
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Tuesday, November 08, 1960
Bartholy County Chess Champion
Fingernail biting nominees awaiting their fate at the hands of the voter-today might well be envious of Fred Bartholy.
Mr. Bartholy, an Ansco patent engineer, has his victory in the bag.
He won the recent Broome County chess championships, edging Harold Evans, former upstate New York champion.
Mr. Evans spoiled a perfect score for Mr. Bartholy by holding the new champion to an 80-move draw in one game.
Chester L. Hinaman of Johnson City, Broome County champion in 1954 and 1959, placed third.
Bernard Gawley, a 14-year-old West Junior high school student, won the junior title with a 4-2 record, after failing to win a single match last year.
August 22 1954
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Sunday, August 22, 1954
Vestal Chess Star In Title Division
Fred Bartholy of Vestal, winner in the experts class the last two years, is expected to step up into the championship competition during the New York State Chess Association tournament, which opens here Saturday.
Bartholy is just one of many Triple Cities chess enthusiasts who will be active in the tournament, which will run through Sunday, Sept. 5, at the Roberson Memorial, 30 Front Street.
Two Binghamtonians, Lynn Bryant and Harold Evans, are members of the tournament committee, and Willis Hull of 30 Circuit Drive, secretary of the state association, is handling entries. Dr. Samuel Finkelstein of Endicott is association president, while Evans and Wilson White, another Binghamtonian, are members of the board of governors.
Mrs. Carl S. Nye of Syracuse, a two-time association president and now a board member, will be honored for her contributions to the chess organization at the tournament dinner Saturday, Sept. 4.
September 26 1954
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Sunday, September 26, 1954
Red Chess Players' Success Called Reflection of Discontent
Binghamtonian Compared Game to Pact Parleys
By Jerry Handte, Sunday Press Writer
To the average, or canasta-playing person, chess probably seems a form of self-torture devised by ancient Arabs whose brainpans accounted for most of their heft, and currently practiced with most success by surly, Kremlin-ridden Communists.
They would be surprised to learn that, in the words of Eugene Gerhart, a Binghamton attorney, “chess involves all the physical hardships of negotiating a collective bargaining contract.”
In fact so exhausting is the concentration required of chess players, who must carry an almost limitless number of battle plans for attack and defense in their heads, that one world champion once lost his crown because he forgot his roadwork.
Victim of this fistic-type calamity was Raoul Jose Capablanca, the pride of Havana.
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Two of Mr. Gerhart's chessplaying cronies in the Triple Cities, Frederick Bartholy, an Ansco patent attorney, and Albert Schreiber, vice-president of the Triple Cities Traction Company, recently kibitzed the highly publicized Russian-American team combat at New York City.
They came home again convinced that Russian success at the game is not government-dictated, but rather reflects popular discontent with the strait jacket of totalitarian rule.
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While he was in the Army during World War 2, Mr. Bartholy met a chess player who was not always prudent.
The Ansco attorney, then a lieutenant colonel, was stationed at Los Alamos, N. M., as an electrical engineer at work on the A-bomb project. He played several times with a rather quiet Englishman, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, later to be notorious as an atom spy.
“If he had been a better chess player, maybe he would not have been a spy,” Mr. Bartholy said.
September 29 1954
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Wednesday, September 29, 1954
CHESS (K)NIGHT—Eugene C. Gerhart, right, chairman of the tournament committee for the Triple Cities Chess Championship which starts Friday night at the IBM Country Club, offers a chess knight to Albert Schreiber, left, tournament director, and Frederick E. Bartholy, Vestal, an early entrant. Binghamton Press Photo.
Friday's Chess Tourney Isn't Really a First
The old guard, chess division, is up in arms about advance billing given the checkmate party scheduled to start Friday night at the IBM County Club as the “first Broome County chess championship.”
Veterans of the royal game pointed out today that Harold C. Evans of Binghamton, a former president of the State Chess Association, defeated a field of Southern Tier thinkers in 1938 in the last official tournament sponsored by the Binghamton Chess Club.
Mr. Evans recalled today that the tournament was contested in the Lloyd C. Anderson law offices in the Capitol Theatre Building.
Ruth Opening
The food products executive used a Ruth opening to advantage in some of his tournament games. The opening was named for former Binghamtonian William Ruth, now a Philadelphian, and was sometimes as paralyzing to foes as a mighty blast from that other Ruth, George Herman.
Mr. Ruth, the thinker, once was the third ranking chess player in the United States.
The late Col. Charles Yeomans, former Binghamton commissioner of public safety, together with Lynn H. Bryant and Mr. Anderson founded the Binghamton Chess Club in 1919.
The club has been represented ever since in inter-county matches for the Genesee Cup, top team laurel in the state, Mr. Evans said.
Starts Friday
Colonel Yeomans, a crackajack at both chess and checkers, attained renown by serving as judge for a world's championship checkers match in Binghamton in 1913.
The late M. Earl Pomeroy of Binghamton won the world crown by defeating Alfred Jordan of England and defended his title successfully against Mr. Jordan the following year.
“I guess I'll have to represent the bald-headed old guard in this new tournament,” said Mr. Evans, who will be defending his laurels after a 16-year hiatus in formal brain-wrenchings.
The tournament will get under way at 7:30 p.m. Friday with play also scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The same schedule will be followed Oct. 8, 9 and 10. Potential entrants, old guard or new, are invited to get in touch with Eugene C. Gerhart or Albert Schreiber.
The public is invited to kibitz, the matches free.
September 05 1947
Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, New York, Friday, September 05, 1947
Byrne Takes Chess Crown
Donald Byrne of New York City last night won the New York State speed championship chess tournament at the IBM Country Club. Runnerup was Hans Berliner of Washington, D. C.
A gathering of 100 watched the competition.
The State Chess Association Congress will hold its annual dinner at 7 o'clock tonight at IBM.
June 13 1956
Evening star, Washington, District of Columbia, Wednesday, June 13, 1956
Hans Berliner Wins D. C. Chess Tourney
Hans Berliner, an international chess master, has been named winner of the 1956 District Individual chess championship after a 12-week round robin tournament at the Washington Chess Divan.
L. Russell Chauvenet, former Eastern amateur champion, won second place and Norman T. Whitaker of Shadyside, Md., veteran international chess master, was third.
August 20 1955
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York, Saturday, August 20, 1955
Reshevsky Ties For Chess Title, But Loses Auto
Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 20 (AP)—Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N. Y., and Nicolas Rossolimo of New York and Paris finished in a tie as the open chess ended early today.
Mr. Reshevsky, who beat the world champion in Moscow last month, and Mr. Rossolimo each had 10 plus or win point and 2 minus points. Neither was defeated however, the minus points coming from four draws each.
There were 156 players in the two-week tournament, each playing 12 rounds. Prize money totaled $5050, offered by local civic groups. First prize was a 1955 automobile and second, $1000. Mr. Rossolimo got the automobile on the basis of 62½ tie-breaking points to Mr. Reshevsky's 61½. The tie-breaking points consist of a median of the sums of their opponents' scores.
Mr. Reshevsky won his final game from James Sherwin, New York City, with a Sicilian defense in 43 moves, although Mr. Sherwin exceeded the time limit.
Mr. Rossolimo in his final game, lasting 7¼ hours, defeated Larry Evans, New York, former U.S. open champion, with a Ruy Lopez opening in 66 moves.
In the standings, Donald Byrne, Ann Arbor, Mich., was third with 9½ points; Abe Turner, Mr. Vernon, N. Y., and Mr. Evans tied at nine each. Five tied at 8½ points; Irving Rivise, Los Angeles; Mr. Sherwin, Herbert Seidman, Brooklyn; Ivan Romanenko, Plainfield, N. J., and Anthony Saidy, Douglaston, N. Y.
Nine tied at 8 points: Herman Steiner, Los Angeles; Larry Remlinger, 14-year-old Long Beach boy; Hans Berliner, Washington; Albert Sandrin, Chicago; Arthur Dake, Portland, Oreg., Robert Steinmeyer, St. Louis, Mo.; Ray Martin, Santa Monica, Calif., Alex Suchobeck, Pacific Grover, Calif., and I. Zalys, Montreal, Que.
January 31 1954
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sunday, January 31, 1954
Chess Experts Stage First Match on Radio
By T. M. Cherington
Chess Editor
If you were to tune in today between 11:00 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. to W3KXU on 3980 kilo cycles you would hear the first transmission of a chess match by short wave from this city.
The Chess Club of Pittsburgh has its eight best men playing the class of the combined clubs of Washington, D. C.
In Washington the Navy transmitter in the Pentagon is carrying the eight games, move by move, to the Pittsburgh players in the home of William S. Potter at 415 Maple Ave., Edgewood.
Potter is a pioneer in radio transmission.
When 14 years old in 1922 he built his first successful spark transmitter powered with an output of seven watts. He was granted a license and frequently was in contact with Dr. Conrad's KDKA from his home in Bellefonte. Those seven watts were heard as far away as Oregon.
NOW 1,000 WATTS
Today the equipment on Maple Ave. has an output of 1,000 watts and spans the world. The Byrd and McMillan expedition of the thirties were in frequent contact with Bill Potter.
It has been a rewarding work, often vital to isolated communities. More than a hundred countries have been in communication with Bill.
Representing Pittsburgh in the match are Fred Sorenson, a club champion; Paul Dietz of Dormont, who has held the club championship three times, intercollegiate chess champion and Pennsylvania state champion; Bill Byland of Dormont, a club champion, state champion and treasurer of the U. S. Chess Federation is playing, as are: Robert Bornholz, who played top board at New York University; Don McClellan, former state champion, Bob Smith, a club champion, David Hamburger and Paul Roth, metropolitan champion.
FAMED PLAYERS
Washington has the New York champion, Hans Berliner, as well as the famed players, Norman Whitaker, Chauvenette, Mugridge, Stark, Tilles, and a choice of a dozen powerful chessers to make up their team.
Glen Hartleb represents the Washington team here. Actual handling of the moves, a problem where time is of the essence and eight boards are involved, is the burden of your chess editor, assisted by Glenn Waltz, Alex Spitzer and Dave Spiro. Rules are for forty moves in two hours and twenty moves per hour thereafter.
A successful experience today means matches with France, Yugoslavia, Holland, South Africa, and Australia. The undertaking is a tremendous challenge to the skill of Bill Potter in maintaining clear contact in a most difficult transmitting situation. Tune in your short wave and join the fun. Set up a board and follow a master game.
'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains: Tweets by swilkinsonbc |
 “What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy. |
To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace. Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws -- https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks. |
This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.
March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.
