Abraham Kupchik

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• Game, Anthony Santasiere vs. Abraham Kupchik, Metropolitan League of New York, 1935.
• Game, Albert Simonson vs Abraham Kupchik, Manhattan Chess Club championship, New York City, 1937.

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April 22 1915

Chess Masters Off On Three Weeks' Grind 22 Apr 1915, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com

CHESS MASTERS OFF ON THREE WEEKS' GRIND
With Capablanca and Marshall showing the way, the eight experts in the chess masters tournament are playing their third round at the Hotel Grenoble, in Manhattan, today. In the photograph herewith, showing the opening of the congress, the following well known players and enthusiasts appear: Seated in front (left to right) J. R. Capablanca, Eduard Lasker, J. Bernstein, F. J. Marshall. Seated in rear (left to right) A. Kupchik, O. Chajes, A. B. Hodges, E. Michelsen. Standing (left to right) G. Koehler, R. J. Brown, L. Rosen, F. P. Beynon, John L. Clark, Hermann Helms, Frank I. Cohen, Julius Finn, Hartwig Cassel, W. M. de Visser, A. Martinez, Frank Rice Marshall, Mrs. F. J. Marshall. (Courtesy of Pathe News.)

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1927

Players in the First National Tournament, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
August 25 to September 05, 1927.
Top left: Lewis J. Isaacs, Charles Westcott (Referee), Marvin Palmer, Herman Steiner, Dr. A. E. West (Tournament Director), Eugene J. Roesch.
Bottom left: Samuel Factor, Stasch Mlotkowski, Samuel Reshevsky, Norman T. Whitaker (Champion), Abraham Kupchik.

1929

On the Roof of the Hotel La Reine.
Seated (left to right)-Alexander Kevitz, Hartwig Cassel, Victor Spark, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Dr. Norbert L. Lederer, Frank J. Marshall and Abraham Kupchik.
Standing (left to right)-George P. Northrop, I. S. Turover, Rafael Cintron, Herman Steiner, Lajos Steiner, H. Ransom Bigelow, Maurice Fox, Hermann Helms and J. Edmund Lister.

Alexander Alekhine (first row, middle chair) surrounded by the participants and officials of the Bradley Beach tournament in 1929. The World Champion took first place with eight wins and only one draw. Original b/w credits, David Delucia Collection.

Alekhine Wins Title 12 Jun 1929, Wed The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

Alekhine Wins Title.
BRADLEY BEACH, N. J., June 12. Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris Tuesday won the International Chess Masters' Tournament which has been in progress here for the past nine days. Alekhine did not lose a game. Lajos Steiner, of Budapest, won the second prize, losing only to Dr. Alekhine.

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May 16 1936

U.S. Chess Championship, Final Round, Hotel Astor, New York, May 16, 1936. Players and officials at the biennial U.S. Championship Tournament. At left center, Marshall hands the Frank J. Marshall Trophy, emblem of the title, to Samuel Reshevsky, winner of the tournament and the new champion. Seated, left to right, are tournament officials Hermann Helms, L. Walter Stephens, Harold M. Phillips, Fritz Brieger and Theodore S. Barron. Standing behind officials, left to right, are Sidney Bernstein, Samuel D. Factor, Milton Hanauer, F. J. Marshall, G. N. Treysman, Samuel Reshevsky, I. A. Horowitz (rear), Alexander Kevitz, Isaac Kashdan, Arthur W. Dake (rear), Abraham Kupchik. Standing at the top of picture, l. to r., are Reuben Fine, Arnold S. Denker, Albert C. Simonson and Herman Steiner. Reshevsky won the subsequent tournaments in 1938, 1940 and 1942. Original b/w photo by Empire photographers. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://best-in-chess.blogspot.com/p/herman-steiner.html.

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