March 29 1925
Marshall Chess Club 29 Mar 1925, Sun The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
At the farewell reception tendered to the departing masters by the members of the Marshall Chess Club Friday night, Marshall played simultaneously against a strong team of 24 opponents, making a score 18 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses in an hour and 20 minutes. H. R. Bigelow, Isaac Kashdan and Herbert Koslan were the winners and G. Christenson, E. Tholfsen and R. Spector drew their games. Alrick H. Man, president of the Marshall Chess Club, was chairman of the function and complimented Marshall and Torre upon their selection as representatives of this country at Baden-Baden. To Torre was presented a gold medal commemorating his achievements in the New York State and Western tournaments.
April 05 1925
Problem No. 1068 05 Apr 1925, Sun Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Problem No. 1068
Composed for the Pittsburgh Post by I. Kashdan, New York City.
White mates in three moves.
FEN 1B6/2R5/1p1kP1PK/1B4P1/4p3/4p3/2P1P3/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. c3 Kd5 2. Rf7 Kxe6 3. Bc4#
November 05 1925
Hallgarten Tourney Results 05 Nov 1925, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Hallgarton Tourney Results.
With the playing off of five adjourned games, four rounds were completed in the Albert Hallgarten tournament at the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club, and Isaac Kashdan and Herman Steiner were leading with scores of 4 to 0 each in Sections A and B, respectively. The results were the following:
Berman 0, Bornholz 1;
Norwood 0, Kashdan 1;
Berman 1, Wintner 0;
Huszar 1; Lliso 0;
Kashdan 1, Pinkus 0.
The leading scores after four rounds:
Section A—Kashdan, 4 and 0;
Bartha, 3 and 1;
Pinkus, 2 and 2.
Section B—Steiner, 4 and 0;
Steinberger, 3 and 1;
Smirka, 2½ and 1½;
Huszar, 2 and 2.
December 27 1925
December 27, 1925. Maroczy To Compete. Geza Maroczy, chess champion of Hungary, and Abraham Kupchik, holder of the Western championship title, will be among the entrants in the annual tournament for the championship of the Manhattan Chess Club to be started on January 8, entries closing a week earlier. Albert Hallgarten has donated a prize fund of $600. The names on the entry list are the following:
G. Maroczy, A. Kupchik, O. Tenner, I. Kashdan, H. Steiner, E. Berman, R. Smirka, L. Samuels, A. S. Pinkus, G. J. Gelsoff, C. E. Norwood, R. L. Bornholz, I. Horowitz, A. Hallgarten, O. W. Field and N. Halper.
