October 27 1947
The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Monday, October 27, 1947
Just-Analyzed Opening
It happens maybe once in a lifetime that someone will play an opening you have just analyzed, especially when you have the black, Stone explained.
Bentz—David Bentz, 46, who won the Maryland State chess championship several months ago—did not participate in the exhibition because he “just didn't feel like it.”
However, the occasion was a happy one for Bentz, a disabled war veteran who works in the Post Office. He taught Kashdan to play chess when they were both students at Peter Stuyvesant High School in New York city.
“Now Pupil Can Beat Teacher”
“Kashdan didn't know a move when he joined the club,” said Bentz, who then was president of the Stuyvesant Chess Club and captain of its chess team. “Now the pupil can beat the teacher.”
Bentz brought his chessboard and pieces, a large tournament-size set of the Staunton pattern the biggest one used in the exhibition—and lent it to Graydon L. Schreiber, 16, of 4001 Round Top road, of the Polytechnic chess team. It almost brought him luck.
“I made one mistake,” said Schreiber. “Mr. Kashdan even said I played a fine game. Up until that error, I had a draw. I might have even won.”
