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Charles William Phillips
December 19, 1860 - January 05, 1938
First, Middle and Last Name: Charles William Phillips |
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Date of Birth: December 19, 1860 |
Date of Death: January 05, 1938 |
Name of Father: William Phillips |
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Name of Mother: Eliza Newton |
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Birth: Sheerness-on-Sea, Kent |
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Residence(s): (b.) Burial January 08, 1938 Evanston, Cook, Illinois |
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Spouse(s): Jennie |
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December 08 1901
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, December 08, 1901
Champion Correspondence Chess Player
Charles W. Phillips
C. W. Phillips of Chicago holds the title of champion correspondence chess player of the United States. He has just won a brilliant correspondence game against Hermann Helms of Brooklyn in an East vs. West match, and is promoting a 100-board correspondence match between Chicago and Brooklyn. Mr. Phillips has been one of Chicago's strongest players for several years.
January 02 1904
Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, January 02, 1904
Messrs. Phillips Are Famous Chess Players.
Though of the Same Family Name the Two Are Not Related.
Both Men Are Champions.
Under the Nativity Rule They Are Barred From International Cable Matches.
Charles William Phillips of Chicago and Harold M. Phillips of New York are two of America's foremost chess players. The former is the present champion of the State of Illinois. The latter is champion of the Manhattan Chess Club.
Though of the same family name, they are not even remotely related. Both learned chess at the age of 17 and at college. The New Yorker possibly possesses the prouder title, but his namesake of the Windy City is a man of wider experience, especially so in the realm of correspondence chess, in which he is the acknowledged champion.
Both are unfortunately barred from participation in the international cable matches with Great Britain under the nativity clause in the deed of gift of the Newnes trophy.
C. W. Phillips, is, like W. E. Napier, a native of England, and, in fact, was born within a short distance of that young master's birthplace. In Sheerness-on-Sea, Kent, Phillips first saw the light and December 19, 1860, was his natal day.
In 1870 he went to Toronto, Canada, where he was educated in school and college, being admitted to the bar in 1882. He practiced for some years in that city, but in 1885 made his home in Chicago and has been a court reporter there ever since.
Learning the game at the age of 17, Phillips won the championship of Toronto Chess Club two years later. Subsequently he was champion of Canada for two years before going to Chicago. He has placed the Illinois state championship to this credit no less than four times.
As winner of the great Continental correspondence tournament, originated by Walter Penn Shipley of Philadelphia, and lasting four years, Phillips achieved his high rank in that branch of the game. This he accomplished against a field of the strongest experts ever engaged in a similar contest in this country. He is also a competitor in the pending Twentieth Century Tournament of the Pillsbury National Correspondence Chess Association, and up to a short time ago had made a clean score in the preliminary and semi-final rounds, winning 14 and drawing 1.
H. M. Phillips is a native of Russian Poland. He was born there December 15, 1875, and came to this country in 1887. His acquisition of and experience in chess he owes entirely to the metropolis. As a student at the College of the City of New York he first learned the moves in 1892 and during the four years following he held the championship of that institution.
This he supplemented by winning premier chess honors at Columbia College in 1896, 1897 and 1898. In 1896 he also won first prize in the Sun correspondence tournament and won all three of his games in a match against St. Francis Xavier. For Columbia against Pennsylvania he scored 3 to 1.
In the Manhattan Chess Club's handicap tournament of 1902 Phillips captured the seventh prize, but last spring he played for the first time in the club's championship tournament and secured the coveted title of champion of New York's famous club. Mr. Phillips is a member of the law firm of Phillips & Rippe of Manhattan.
Both the experts above named are on the list of candidates for the great international masters tournament, to be held at Cambridge Springs, Pa., next April and May.
January 06 1938
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Thursday, January 06, 1938
Charles W. Phillips.
Charles W. Phillips, a court reporter here for many years and former chess champion of Canada and Illinois, died yesterday of a heart attack in the office of Attorney Arthur Schwartz, 134 South La Salle street. He was taking a deposition. Mr. Phillips, who was 75 years old, lived at 2214 Sherman avenue, Evanston. Surviving are his widow, Jeanne, and a daughter, Mrs. Vernon Beebe of Kenilworth, wife of the president of the American School association.
Phillips, Charles William ➦ bio + additional games
December 19, 1860 - January 05, 1938
