Alexander Kevitz

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• Game, Alexander Kevitz vs. Frank Marshall, Metropolitan League of New York, 1935.
• Game, Alexander Kevitz vs. Albert C. Simonson, Manhattan CC, Supplementary match, Game 1, 1936.
• Game, Albert C. Simonson vs. Alexander Kevitz, Manhattan CC, Supplementary match, Game 2, 1936.
• Game, Alexander Kevitz vs. Albert C. Simonson, Manhattan CC, Supplementary match, Game 3, 1936.
• Game, Arthur Bisguier vs. Alexander Kevitz, Championship Tournament of Manhattan Chess Club, New York, 1956

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Alexander Kevitz, from page 44 of the March 1929 American Chess Bulletin. 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/alexander-kevitz.html.

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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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1946

From front to back: Samuel Reshevsky, Alexander Kevitz, Isaac Kashdan, Weaver W. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Dake, and Albert Pinkus. 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/samuel-reshevsky.html

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August 03 1946

Not Another Talking Dog 03 Aug 1946, Sat The Daily Item (Port Chester, New York) Newspapers.com

THIS IS NOT ANOTHER talking dog story but Tex, German police dog, makes sure that Alexander Kevitz, Yonkers druggist, carefully considers his next move. Mr. Kevitz has been named on the United States chess team which will meet Russia in an international match at Moscow in September. Tex is owned by Clifford Jackson, a neighbor of Kevitz.

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