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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.
