Additional Games
- Chessgames
- Game, Charles S. Jacobs vs. Sidney Thomas Sharp, 1933.
C.S. Jacobs 03 Apr 1921, Sun Boston Post (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
C.S. JACOBS
Who defeated Samuel Rzeschewski, the boy chess wonder. He was at one time connected with the Post advertising department.
02 Nov 1959, Mon The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Charles S. Jacobs, Ad Executive and Noted Chess Player
Private services for Charles S. Jacobs, 86, advertising and public relations executive and noted chess player, will be held Tuesday.
Mr. Jacobs, of 22 Fletcher st., Winchester, died Saturday at Winchester Hospital. Born at York, Pa., he studied at Dickinson College, York, and in 1896 became associated in the advertising field with a Des Moines, Iowa department store.
He later served as assistant advertising manager for the Montreal Star and served in a similar capacity with the Cleveland News and later the Boston American.
He was a member of the Boston Chess Club and taught chess at the Young Men's Christian Union on Saturdays in Boston and at the Boston Center for Adult Education for a time.
Mr. Jacobs leaves a wife, Laura (Creswell); a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sumner C. Jacobs of Winchester, and a son-in-law, Frederick L. Churchill of Winchester.
Charles S. Jacobs 29 Nov 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Charles S. Jacobs, Winchester, died Oct. 31. He was 86 years old. Jacobs was master emeritus of the U.S.C.F. and had been for many years a pillar of Boston chess. Up to the end he was a member of the Boylston Chess Club and he taught classes in the game at the Boston Center for Adult Education. In his youth he was a friend of the legendary Harry Nelson Pillsbury. This association began in the 1890's when Pillsbury was a touring maestro and Jacobs was a young Des Moines advertising man fresh from Dickenson College.
Later, Mr. Jacobs shifted to newspaper work and brought his advertising skill to dailies in Montreal, Cleveland and, finally, Boston.
When McLeod won the “Western Championship” forerunner of the U.S. Open, in 1901, Mr. Jacobs, then Iowa state champion, challenged him to a match of six games. McLeod had been Canadian champion and Chess Life said the match was “in effect, for the championship of the whole country.” McLeod won the match 3½-2½. Below is the fifth game which by some stretch of the imagination might be called a Dutch Defense but which I prefer to call Irregular.
Charles S. Jacobs (white) vs. Nicholas Menelaus MacLeod (black)
French Defense: Normal Variation
