January 09 1933
Chess Tournament Runs All Night 09 Jan 1933, Mon The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
CHESS TOURNAMENT RUNS ALL NIGHT
Herman Steiner. The sketch of Steiner deeply engrossed in play is by Graziella Jacoby.
A chess tournament begun Saturday afternoon at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and continuing all through the night ended early yesterday morning with Herman Steiner, 26-year-old chess marvel, winning fifty-six games, losing nine and drawing three.
There were sixty-eight boards and a total of 272 players participating, among them being some of the Southland's most able players, including Harry Borochow, California State champion; Irving Spero, former Ohio State champion; A. H. Taylor of Pasadena, and Edward Everett. Of the four, only Taylor was able to win from the victor.
Included among others to defeat Steiner were teams from Pasadena' Junior College and Los Angeles High School.
A gallery of several hundred persons witnessed the tournament. Steiner was a member of the American chess team which last year won the international gold trophy at Prague, Czecho-Slovakia.
February 01 1933
Herman Steiner and wife, Selma Steiner, February 01, 1933.
Source: UCLA/LA Times Photographic Collection
February 02 1933
Chess Master Takes Queen 02 Feb 1933, Thu The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
CHESS MASTER TAKES QUEEN
International Champion Weds Pianist
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Steiner
Herman Steiner, international chess master, and his bride of three days, the former Miss Selma Siegelman, concert pianist, received the congratulations of their friends yesterday following announcement of their marriage at Santa Ana. The announcement was made at a reception and opening of the International Chess Club and College at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The marriage is the culmination of a romance that began last August when they met at the Pasadena chess tournament, where the groom was one of the outstanding contestants in international play.
Steiner, Chess Club Head, Weds Pianiste 02 Feb 1933, Thu Los Angeles Evening Citizen News (Hollywood, California) Newspapers.com
Steiner Chess Club Head Weds Pianiste
Friends gave twofold congratulation today to Herman Steiner, International chess master, on his wedding with Selma Siegelman and the opening of his International Chess Club and College.
The couple was married in Santa Ana the early part of the week preceding the opening of the chess club at the Hollywood Athletic Club Tuesday night. Their romance began when they met in Pasadena last August at a chess tournament Miss Siegelman attended as a concert pianist.
April 06 1933
