George Shainswit

Back to Home Index

Additional Games

• Chessgames
1. Game, George Shainswit vs. Jacob Bernstein, Metropolitan League Match, 1936.
2. Game, Weaver Adams vs. George Shainswit, 1951.

George Shainswit
January 03, 1918 - September 05, 1997

---

1942

Players and officials at Ventnor City, 1942. Front row, left to right, Abraham Yanofsky, Walter B. Suesman, Councilman E. L. Wood, Miss Mona May Karff (woman champion, who gave simultaneous exhibition), Mayor Harry S. Hodson, Albert S. Pinkus, Director Richard W. Wayne. Back row, left to right, Sidney Bernstein, J. Moskowitz, L. R. Chauvenet, George Shainswit, Jacob Levin, Louis Levy, J. E. Donovan, Referee J. Roy Dessauer.

---

July 07 1943

The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, July 07, 1943

Bostonian Tied for Chess Lead
Ventnor City, N. J.. July 7 (AP)--Private George Shainswit of the Bronx, N. Y., and Weaver A. Adams of Boston were tied today for the lead in the fifth annual invitational chess masters' tournament under the auspices of the Ventnor City Chess Club.
The two played to a four-hour draw yesterday. Adams, playing the black pieces, used the Albin counter gambit to neutralize the soldier's base advantage in having the white side, and after 19 moves they agreed to a draw.
Edward S. Jackson Jr., national amateur champion, who had won his match on the opening day of the tournament Monday, met Anthony E. Santasiere of New York. Their game was adjourned after 40 moves.
The match of Milton L. Hanauer of New York and Walter B. Suesman of Providence also was adjourned after 40 moves.