Jose Capablanca, 1917

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February 21 1917

The Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, February 21, 1917

Checkers and Chess Player's Big Record
Playing checkers and chess against 42 opponents at the same time and defeating all except one was what might be called the world's record achieved by Newell W. Banks, world's checker champion, Tuesday night at the Elk's club.
Twenty-four of the opponents were playing checkers and the others, of whom Henry Kurth made the sole winning, played chess. Kurth won games against Jose Capablanca, the renowned chess master, and Frank Marshall, United States chess champion, when they were in Portland.
The games, under the auspices of the Portland Chess and Checker club, lasted from 8 o'clock to 1:10 o'clock this morning, during which time Banks was held to seven draws in checkers and five in chess.
He will leave tonight for Salem, and subsequently will tour the north west before returning to Chicago by way of San Francisco.

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