Irving Chernev. Estimated 1940.
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Irving Chernev, 1918
September 12 1918
September 12, 1918, Irving Chernev, Military Registration Card. Provides January 31, 1900 as date of birth.
Irving Chernev, 1981
October 01 1981
The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, Thursday, October 01, 1981
Irving Chernev
Memorial services were held this morning for author and chess master Irving Chernev, who died here Tuesday. He was 81.
Mr. Chernev was the author of “Invitation to Chess” and 17 other volumes credited with popularizing the game in this country.
A native of Odesa, Ukraine, who came to the U.S. in 1905 and spent most of his life in New York, where he managed a family paper business and engaged in chess tournaments and national championships, Mr. Chernev came to San Francisco in 1967.
A witty, well-traveled person, he lectured and gave exhibitions and continued to produce what critics acclaimed as lively classics in chess literature.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Selma, a son, Melvin and a daughter, Amy.
Irving Chernev, 2008
November 09, 2008
The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California, Sunday, November 09, 2008
Chernev, Selma Kulik
Apr. 5, 1907 - Nov. 7, 2008
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sadie Kulik became an exceptional pianist. At the age of 17, she gave her first concert, changing her name to Selma. A young man, Irving Chernev, attending one of her concerts, decided he had to meet her. He arranged to take piano lessons from her to accomplish that. Eventually they married and had one son, Melvin. Irving Chernev was a great Chess Master. He is remembered as the most outstanding and best-selling writer of chess books of all time. After retirement in 1968, the Chernevs moved to San Francisco. Irving passed away in 1981. Selma continued to live in their Marina apartment until a fractured hip forced her to move. She came to Sacramento to be near her family son, Mel, and his wife, Marlene, and grand-daughter C.C. Selma lived happily at the Albert Einstein Residence Center where her own Mason and Hamlin piano remains as a memorial to her. Funeral services will be private and held graveside in Colma, where she will be buried next to Irving.
Cornelis Lambertus Christiaan Dekker, 1939
May 27, 1939
The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, Saturday, May 27, 1939
Game No. 5322.
An interesting game from the London Stock Exchange v. Amsterdam Bourse Match. Q.P.
Frank Parr (white) vs. C. L. C. Dekker (black)
King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Immediate Fianchetto
(a) White makes a speculation sacrifice of two minor pieces for a Rook and two Pawns; Black is not prepared to accept the material advantage and sports a dangerous counter-attack which gives White some anxious moments; he survives and manages a draw. A lively and exciting game.
Jose Capablanca, 1936
January 09 1936
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, January 09, 1936
Another ex-champion will make his entry into the Port of New York tonight, when the French Liner, Ile de France, delayed by heavy weather, reaches her pier. After an absence of just a year, Jose R. Capablanca will step ashore to renew old acquaintanceships, en route to home in Havana. It is understood that he will tarry long enough to give exhibitions of his skill, if club managers are awake to their opportunities and get in touch with him promptly.
April 15 1936
The 1936 Margate International commenced play on April 15th, featuring José Raul Capablanca taking on Philip Stuart Milner-Barry in the opening match. Ultimately Salo Flohr won the tournament with the former world champion placing second.
Jose Capablanca, 1934
January 08 1934
Evening Star, Washington, District of Columbia, Monday, January 08, 1934
Jose R. Capablanca returned to his native Cuba to spend the holidays. Before leaving New York he expressed a willingness to play 10 of New York's best players simultaneously, with clocks, upon his return.
He also ventured the opinion that Alekhine would again defeat Bogoljubov if the projected match between them is played.
Jose Capablanca, 1933
January 26 1933
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, January 26, 1933
Capablanca to Make Chess Trip to Panama And Visit U. S. Next
Out of the limelight for a full year, Jose R. Capablanca of Havana is about to emerge from retirement. While his successor as world champion was exceptionally busy throughout 1932, the Cuban stayed at home in his native land, playing but little chess. However, while there, he did establish a new record by playing against 330 opponents at 66 boards.
The former world champion expects soon to leave Havana and has his mind set on visiting Panama. After that, according to his plan, he will head for California, which held its first international congress last Summer. His program, as outlined thus far, calls for his departure the latter part of February, reaching Panama about the 24th. He is due to arrive in Los Angeles around March 16.
The presence of the famous Cuban in that section of the country will afford players on the Pacific Coast and those in the South, where recently there has been a genuine revival in chess interest, another opportunity to witness him in action. Information concerning his forthcoming tour can be obtained by clubs interested from the American Chess Bulletin, 150 Nassau Manhattan.
February 19 1933
José Raúl Capablanca (fourth from left) at a luncheon
February 19, 1933. José Raúl Capablanca surrounded by those attending the tribute lunch offered to him by the Swiss colony of Havana. Original b/w from University of Miami. Library. Cuban Heritage Collection
April 06 1933
Jose Capablanca, 1916
January 03 1916
The Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York, Monday, January 03, 1916
Jose R. Capablanca, the wonderful Cuban chess player, won the rapid transit chess tournament held at the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club yesterday. He won first prize from a field of eleven with score of 9½ to 1½. J. Rosenthal won second prize, and was the only player to draw with the Cuban.
Jose Capablanca, 1937
September 1937
September 1937
José Raúl Capablanca speaking at the Chess Club of Havana
José Raúl Capablanca, the brilliant chess master, former world champion, speaking at the Havana Chess Club about the orthodox defense of the Queen's gambit. Capablanca gave his opinion that research has demonstrated the superiority of the orthodox defense over the hypermodern defenses of the gambit—August 08, 1937. Original b/w photo by Kiko y Funcasta, via the University of Miami, Cuban Heritage Collection Library.
Jose Capablanca, 1929
January 02 1929
The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, New York, Wednesday, January 02, 1929
The Day's Personality
Jose R. Capablanca, the noted Cuban chess expert who recently returned from a successful European trip, started to play chess at the of four. He is possessed of a mind that works as quickly and unerringly as the shutter of a camera, and to watch him at games—for he is seldom to be seen engaging less than a score of players at one time—one realizes that the comparison is justified.
January 03 1929
The Eagle, Bryan, Texas, Thursday, January 03, 1929
After defeating Jose R. Capablanca at Buenos Aires, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, the champion chess player of the world, has not been called upon to defend his title during the year 1928. He is open and ready to defend his title. This is printed for the benefit of some of the faculty of Allen Academy who I think would give Alekhine a tough battle according to their way of thinking.
June 06 1929
The Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, June 06, 1929
Chess Champ Dies
Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, June 6 (UP).—R. Reti, Czecho-Slovakian chess champion, died to-day after several weeks' illness with scarlet fever. He was 39. Reti played in many famous international matches, including one in New York in 1924, when he defeated Jose R. Capablanca.
June 09 1929
Evening star, Washington, District of Columbia, Sunday, June 09, 1929
CAPABLANCA IS SLICK.
Jose R. Capablanca, the chess marvel, recently played against 50 women in as many games in a tournament in London. He won every game.
June 26 1929
July 31 1929
August 01 1929
The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia, Thursday, August 01, 1929
CHESS AT CARLSBAD
Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, July 31.—(AP)—Frank J. Marshall. of the United States, lost his first round match in the fourth international chess masters tournament which opened here today. He was defeated by Dr. M. Vidmar, of Jugoslavia. Jose R. Capablanca, of Cuba, got a draw with Dr Tartakower of France.
Jose Capablanca, 1932
January 14 1932
The Palmer Journal, Palmer, Nebraska, Thursday, January 14, 1932
Jose Raoul Capablanca, former chess champion of the world, attended Columbia university, where he played a bit of baseball. Capablanca lives in the Buena Vista section of Havana. He now has a job with the Cuban government. I think his title is inspector of consulates and legations. It permits him to travel around the world on an expense account. He might almost as well be a tennis player. Capablanca, a few years ago, won the main prize in the government lottery. As he had sold half of his ticket, his share of the prize, was $50,000.
Jose Capablanca, 1913
January 20, 1913
The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Monday, January 20, 1913
Chess Masters Begin Second Annual Play
Fourteen Entered in American National Tournament; Results of First Day.
New York. Jan. 19.—The opening round of the second American National chess masters tournament began here today at the Manhattan Chess club, with fourteen players entered.
Only twelve of the players were at the boards today, the game in which David Janowski, the French champion, and Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion, were paired having been postponed until tomorrow owing to the fact that both these masters had only arrived in New York today from Europe after a tempestuous voyage on the steamer Mauritania. The contestants in the tournament, besides these two, are:
Jose R. Capablanca, of Havana, winner of the San Sebastian tournament in 1911; Oscar Chajes, Chicago; L. B. Zapoleon, Washington; H. Liehenstein, Baltimore; Norman T. Whittaker, Philadelphia; Harry Kline, Boston; J. S. Morrison, Toronto; J. Stapfer, the New Jersey champion, and Charles Jaffe, A. Kupchik, I. Tenenwurzel and S. Rubinstein, New York.
Capablanca, Kupchik and Stapfer each won his game, respectively, from Libenstein, Zapoleon and Rubinstein. It required twenty-six moves by Capablanca to be declared the winner, while Kupchik took 57 and Stapfer 34 to dispose of their opponents. The contests between Morrison and Chajes, Tenenworzel and Jaffe and Whittaker and Kline all were drawn.
The pairing for tomorrow's round, in addition to the postponed game between Janowski and Marshall, is as follows: Jaffe vs. Leibenstein, Chajes vs. Zapoleon, Marshall vs. Kupchik; Whittaker vs. Capablanca, Janowski vs. Rubinstein, Morrison vs. Tenenwurzel, and Stapfer vs. Kline.
Jose Capablanca, 1931
January 02 1931
Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, Friday, January 02, 1931
India Chess Player Fourth Round Winner
Hastings, England, Jan. 1—(AP).—Sultan Khan of India was again a winner in the early session of the fourth round of the international tournament of the Hastings chess festival Thursday. He defeated Sir George Thomas in 36 moves. Jose R. Capablanca of Cuba was held to a draw by Dr. Euwe of Holland in 25 moves. Michell of England defeated Miss Menchik of Czechoslovakia in 18 moves and Yates won from Tylor in 30.
March 15 1931
José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess champion
Capablanca, Roussillon, March 15, 1931. Original b/w from University of Miami, Library, Cuban Heritage Collection.
Jose Capablanca, 1912
January 17 1912
The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin, Wednesday, January 17, 1912
Capablanca, Cuban Chess Expert, Anxious To Play Lasker, The Champion
New York, Jan. 16—Word comes from Havana that Jose R. Capablanca, the Cuban chess champion, who is resting after his South American and European tours, has decided to prolong his stay until the end of February. He will then prepare for his next tour of the United States, which he will open at New Orleans. Incidentally Capablanca is waiting for the next move from Dr. Emanuel Lasker in the negotiations for the world's championship match.
Jose Capablanca, 1930
1930
José Raúl Capablanca with two officers, estimated 1930. Original b/w photo from University of Miami, Library. Cuban Heritage Collection
January 03 1930
Chattanooga Daily Times, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Friday, January 03, 1930
Cuban Leads Chess Meet.
Hastings, England, Jan. 2 (AP).—The seventh round of the International chess tournament was contested here today. By drawing with Dr. Vidmar, of Jugoslavia, Jose Capablanca, of Cuba, kept his place at the head of the list, with five games won and two lost. Miss Menchik, of Russia, the woman champion, surprised the talent by defeating Sir George Thomas, of London.
Jose Capablanca, unknown date, unknown photographer.
Jose Capablanca, 1928
January 01 1928
The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, January 01, 1928
Alekhine Wins Chess Title In Lengthy Duel
Alexander Alekhine of Russia sprang a big surprise on the chess world late in 1927 when he dethroned Jose Capablanca of Cuba, considered invincible. In a world's championship tournament extending over a period of seventy-four days at Buenos Aires. He won with a score of 6 to 3 with twenty-five drawn games.
Capablanca had held the championship only six years, whereas for Emanuel Lasker of Germany, his predecessor, had held it twenty-seven years and the champion before him for twenty-eight years.
Alekhine also won the international tournament at Kecskemét, Hungary, during the summer.
Unknown date, estimated 1928? EfimLG47 writes: “The picture has nothing to do with Havana, but was taken in Germany when Capablanca was playing against German publisher and chess promoter Bernhard Kagan.”—chess set
“The above photograph from our archives was included in the plate section of our 1989 monograph on Capablanca. The caption duly noted that the Cuban’s opponent was the publisher and promoter Bernhard Kagan.”—chesshistory source. Unknown date. Unknown location. Unknown photographer. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly).
Jose Capablanca, 1926
January 03 1926
The Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, January 03, 1926
Chess
E. D. Bogoljubov won the Moscow tournament. Dr. Lasker and Jose R. Capablanca rating second and third. At Buffalo, Herman Helms won the New York State title. In college chess Columbia won the N. Y. Chess League tournament for the tenth time in succession, thereby getting permanent possession of the trophy placed in competition thirty-two years ago. Harvard, Yale and Princeton thereupon withdrew from the league and a new coalition, including the United States Military Academy at West Point, resulted in the formation of the “H. Y. P. W.” Chess League. The twenty-sixth annual tournament of the Inter-collegiate Chess League, formally known a the Triangular College Chess League, was won for the first time by New York University, with City College second, Pennsylvania third, Buffalo fourth and Cornell fifth. Rutgers has since been admitted and Columbia will play in the next tournament by invitation.
The championship of the Metropolitan Chess league was again won by the Stuyvesant Chess Club. The Manhattan Chess Club won the Intercity match with Philadelphia, 10½ to 5½.
Jose Capablanca, 1924
January 02 1924
The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, New York, Wednesday, January 02, 1924
Alekhine Willing To Meet Marshall Before Capablanca
Alexander Alekhine, the Russian chess champion, before completing his arrangement for a world's championship match with Jose R. Capablanca, is willing to meet Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion, who also has challenged Capablanca, according to a statement made by Alekhine at the Manhattan Chess Club.
Alekhine expects to remain here for several months and, upon his return from a tour of the West, would be ready to play Marshall.
Jose Capablanca, 1910
January 02 1910
The Tacoma Daily Ledger, Tacoma, Washington, Sunday, January 02, 1910
Special Chess Prizes.
New York, Jan 1.—Baron Albert Rothschild of Vienna has offered special prizes at the tournament of the German Chess association to be held at Hamburg at a date not yet decided. America probably will he represented by Jose R. Capablanca, Frank J. Marshall and Paul Johner.
Jose Capablanca, 1908
February 03 1908
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Monday, February 03, 1908
CHESS NOTES.
At the conclusion of the simultaneous exhibition given by Jose Capablanca at the Brooklyn Chess Club Saturday night the Columbia University crack had won against twenty-four of the twenty-six opponents drawn with C. Curt and lost only one to H. Blumberg, who played second board for Columbia in the last Intercollegiate tournament. Blumberg is a Brooklyn boy and a graduate of the Boys High School. He forced the victory with Capablanca in brilliant fashion, sacrificing his queen and announcing a mate in three moves. The performance of the young Cuban prodigy was one of the finest ever witnessed at the local club and has not been surpassed by any of the masters who have played here. The seance lasted a little over three hours.
Jose Capablanca, 1923
January 06 1923
Sun Herald, Biloxi, Mississippi, Saturday, January 06, 1923
World's Chess Champion Accepts Challenge
Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
Senor Jose Capablanca the world's champion chess player who has just accepted the challenge of Rubinstein winner of the recent International tournament at Vienna for a championship match. The purse will be three thousand pounds sterling and the match probably will be held in England.
Jose Capablanca, 1907
March 14 1907
The Morning Journal-Courier, New Haven, Connecticut, Thursday, March 14, 1907
CABLE CHESS MATCH.
That Between American and British Universities Begins March 23.
New York, March 13.—The inter-university cable chess match between representatives of Harvard, Columbia, Yale and Princeton, on the one side, and Oxford and Cambridge university on the other, will be played on Saturday, March 23. There will be six men on each team, and the American colleges will be represented by J. R. Capablanca and I. J. Wolff, of Columbia; O. A. Brackett, and P. W. Bridgman, or G. T. McClure of Harvard, E. B. Burgess of Yale and W. M. Ward of Princeton.
The teams will play for the Isaac M. Rice international trophy, which has been abroad since 1903.
Jose Capablanca, 1941
January 11 1941
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York, Saturday, January 11, 1941
Former Chess Champion Dr Lasker Dies at 72
New York, Jan. 11 (AP).—Dr. Emanuel Lasker, 72, world famous chess expert and writer on chess subjects died at Mt. Sinai Hospital today of uremic poisoning. Doctor Lasker won the world's chess championship in 1894 and held it until 1921 when he lost to Jose Capablanca.
Jose Capablanca, 1939
February 03 1939
The Standard-Star, New Rochelle, New York, Friday, February 03, 1939
Capablanca Honored
Cubans know how to honor their chess hero Jose Capablanca. A letter recently was received by an enthusiast in this City from Juan Gonzalez, the Cuban player. It had a special stamp which depicted a chess board in green and white. Below the board was the legend: Capablanca, 1888 19 Nov 1938, Cincuentenario de su Natalicio. Capa celebrated his fiftieth birthday during the AVRO tourney mentioned above, by losing to Dr. Alexandre Alekhine.
Jose Capablanca, 1920
January 04 1920
The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday, January 04, 1920
COLUMBIA BEST AT CHESS
Yale Team Makes Record By Losing All 12 Matches.
New York, Jan. 3. Columbia University won the intercollegiate chess tournament which ended here today with 10½ points out of a possible 12. Harvard, with 7 points, finished second, a half point ahead of Princeton, having defeated the Tiger representative today three games out of four. Yale lost all 12 games, an intercollegiate record.
Columbia, which has won the championship 14 times, made the highest score since Jose R. Capablanca aided the local university in winning the title. C. B. Isaacson and W. R. Thompson, of Columbia, went through the tournament without a defeat.
Jose Capablanca, 1938
January 02 1938
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday, January 02, 1938
Wins Second Prize.
One of Fine's best efforts was his winning of second prize, below Keres, in the international tournament at Semmering, without losing a single game. There he won 2 of his 14 games and drew the other 12. He also enjoyed the satisfaction of outranking, by half a point, Jose R. Capablanca of Havana, former world champion, and Reshevsky. He did not fare so well at Kemeri, where Reshevsky finished in a tie for first place with Salo Flohr of Czechoslovakia and V. Petro of Latvia. Dr. Alekhine and Keres tied for fourth place. Fine made a score of 9-8.
During the spring at Havana, Capablanca set a record for simultaneous play, meeting 350 opponents seated at 70 boards. The Cuban won 50, drew 14 and, lost 6.
The record for blindfold play made by Dr. Alekhine in Chicago during the Century of Progress Exposition was surpassed in September by Georges Koltanowski of Belgium, at Edinburgh, Scotland. Koltanowski conducted 34 games simultaneously, winning 24 and drawing 10.
Jose Capablanca, 1919
1919
A Group at the Hastings Victory Congress, 1919
Victor Leonard Wahltuch, Jose Raul Capablanca, Amos Burn, Henry Ernest Atkins, Sir George Thomas. Original b/w from A Century of British Chess by P.W. Sergeant (London, 1934) Source
January 09 1919
The Victoria Daily Times, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Thursday, January 09, 1919
Canadian Invited To Victory Chess Tourney
New York, Jan. 9.—Jose R. Capablanca, of Cuba; Frank J. Marshall, United States; Boris Kostich, Serbia; Jackson W. Showalter, France, and James S. Morrison, Canada, have received invitations from the British Chess Federation to take part in a “Victory Chess Congress,” to be held in England next August, and for which preparations are now under way.
The entry list will be limited to experts from Allied and neutral countries. J. H. Blackburne, A. Burn, E. Atkins and F. D. Yates are the British masters expected to play in the chief tournament, which will last about a fortnight. The prize fund will be $1,500.
Jose Capablanca, 1918
April 21 1918
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, April 21, 1918
Girls in Cienfuegos Draw With Capablanca
Jose R. Capablanca, chess champion of Cuba, who is expected to arrive here soon, recently visited Cienfuegos and there, at the Liceo Club, gave an exhibition of simultaneous play against twenty opponents, including four young women, who conducted a consultation game and drew with the young master. Capablanca showed no mercy to his male opponents, among whom was Charles S. Winans, the American Consul at Cienfuegos, and defeated them all.
The following evening the famous international player gave a lecture on chess before a large gathering of society people, and this was followed by a ball given in honor of the visitor. During this function and while carrying on a lively conversation with a bevy of debutantes the Cuban champion played a blindfold game against five of the best local amateurs, conceding them the odds of a knight. This ended in a draw, although Capablanca had the advantage.
Jose Capablanca, 1914
January 04 1914
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, January 04, 1914
Capablanca In Russia.
Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, Jose R. Capablanca, the Cuban chess Champion, was enthusiastically received by the members of the famous St. Petersburg Chess Club, who arranged for him a series of match games against the leading experts. First he defeated E. A. Snosko-Borowski, playing the black of a Ruy Lopez in 37 moves. Next he won with the white pieces in a queen's gambit declined, against A. A. Alechine, which lasted only 29 moves.
April 21 1914
St. Petersburg International Chess Tournament, April 21, 1914 – May 22, 1914.
St. Petersburg 1914 was organized by the St. Petersburg Chess Society to commemorate its tenth anniversary. It invited the world’s top twenty players, but Amos Burn, Richard Teichmann, and Szymon Winawer declined for personal reasons. Oldrich Duras, Geza Maroczy, Carl Schlechter, Rudolf Spielmann, Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, and Max Weiss, on the other hand, declined due to tensions between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
The remaining eleven, nonetheless, made a formidable cast. These included the world champion in Emanuel Lasker, the leading title contenders in Akiba Rubinstein and Jose Raul Capablanca, former world championship contenders in Isidor Gunsberg, Frank Marshall, Siegbert Tarrasch, and David Janowski, a 19th century great in Joseph Henry Blackburne, a leading Russian master in Ossip Bernstein, and the joint winners of the 1913 All-Russian Masters Tournament in Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch.
Source: Chessbase, Revisiting St. Petersburg 1914
Chess tournament in St. Petersburg 1914. José Raúl Capablanca vs. Emanuel Lasker.
“The St Petersburg Tournament of 1914 featured the joint winners of the 1914 All Russian Championship (Alekhine and Nimzowitsch) and players who had won at least one major tournament. There were the veterans Blackburne and Gunsberg, established masters such as Tarrasch, Bernstein, Janowski, Nimzowitsch, Alekhine and Marshall as well as the World Champion Lasker and his two most prominent rivals, Rubinstein and Capablanca.
The tournament was divided into two sections. The first stage from the 21st April to the 6th of May was an all-play-all event with the first five finishers proceeding into the second stage which ran from the 10th to the 22nd of May. This second stage was a double round all-play-all with the scores from the preliminaries being carried over to the final.
It was expected that there would be a great struggle among Lasker, Capablanca and Rubinstein, but the latter failed to make the final, leaving Lasker and Capablanca to battle it out. Lasker was 1½ points behind Capablanca at the start of the finals but in the end ran out the winner by a ½ point, by scoring seven points from eight games, including a celebrated victory over Capablanca.”
Source: Chessgames.com: St. Petersburg (1914)
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