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1. Game, Kit Crittenden vs. Jim Cross, United States Junior Chess Championship, 1949
2. Game, Samuel Reshevsky vs. James Cross, Reshevsky Exhibition, 1950.
3. Game, James Cross vs. Sven Elias Almgren, Hollywood Invitational, 1950.
4. Game, George Steven vs. James Cross, Hollywood Invitational, 1950.
5. Game, James Cross vs. Milton Otteson, Junior Championship 1950.
6. Game, James Cross vs. Jack Kagetsu, National Junior Championship Tournament, Milwaukee, July 1950.
7. Game, Eldis Cobo vs. James Cross, Capablanca Chess Club of Havana and the Hollywood Chess Group, 1951.
8. Game, James Cross vs. Eldis Cobo, Capablanca Chess Club of Havana and the Hollywood Chess Group, 1951.
9. Game, Raymond Martin vs. James Cross, Hollywood Chess Group vs. Santa Monica Chess Club, 1951.
10. Game, James Cross vs. Edmar Mednis, West Orange Log Cabin Tournament, 1959.
11. Game, James Cross vs. Larry Evans, 8th Round of Log Cabin Invitational tournament, 1959.
12. Game, James Cross vs. Zoltan Kovacs, Southern California Chess Championship, 1959.
13. Game, Stephen Sholomson vs. James Cross, California State Tourney, 1959
14. Game, James Cross vs. Leonard Frankenstein, California State Championship, 1959.

James Barry Cross
April 13, 1930 — May 16, 2016

First, Middle and Last Name: James Barry Cross
Date of Birth: April 13, 1930	Date of Death: May 16, 2016
Name of Father: James Barry Cross Sr.
Name of Mother: Theresa Mary (born Bohnen)
Birth: Wilmet, Illinois
Education:
Military Enlistment: United States Air Force	Occupation(s):
Residence(s): (1940s) Evanston, Illinois; (1950s) Glendale, California; (1956-1997) Los Angeles, California; (1997-2016) Waukesha, Wisconsin; (d.) Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
Spouse(s): Sylvia Haldis Ingeborg Svanoe m. March 20, 1954
Siblings:
Children: Carolyn Cross Ward
Other: Won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship in 1950 held in Milwaukee

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August 20 1950

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, August 20, 1950

CHESS CHAMP—Glendale's Jim Cross, 20, is back home after capturing U.S. junior title in Milwaukee. A player six years, he thanks Herman Steiner's tutoring. Times photo

Glendale Youth Returns With U.S. Chess Title
A new national champion arrived back at his home in Glendale the other day. He is Jim Cross, 6 feet 4 inches of 20-year-old youth, who last month won the United States Junior Chess Championship at Milwaukee, Wis.
Jim will be a junior this fall at UCLA “if not drafted,” he explains. He lives at 332 Brent Place, Glendale, and has been a resident of California for five years since his parents come here from his native Evanston, Ill.
Jim started playing chess six years ago by reading Hoyle. He must have studied the old master of games pretty thoroughly because two months later he won the school championship at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill.

Tutored by Editor
When he came to Glendale, he was a confirmed chessomaniac and started studying under Herman Steiner (editor of The Times chess column). With Steiner's Hollywood Chess Group, Jim says he got some of the best competition in the Los Angeles area.
He started tournament play in it, and in the following four years placed among the first four in the national junior meets. He won it this year—the last that he will be eligible for competition. In Milwaukee, he had eight straight wins, losing only the final round after he had already mathematically won the title.
“Any one can play chess.” Jim says. “It is much easier than is commonly believed if properly taught. Like anything else it requires study and practice if you are going to be any good. But chess can be fun without going too deeply into the fine points of the game.”
Jim thinks that children should be taught the game by recreation departments in schools. “Milwaukee's chess program for children is wonderful,” he says enthusiastically. “Their annual tournament has 500 or more youngsters from 7 years old up in competition.”

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1952

Eugene Steiner observes while James Cross (playing white) and Vladimir Pafnutieff study their moves in a 1952 Hollywood International. Photo by Nancy Roos.

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December 1954

Vol. 4, No. 4, California Chess Reporter, December 1954. Seated, left to right: William Addison, Sven Elias Almgren, James Cross, Eugene Levin, Ray Martin. Standing: Dmitri Poliakoff, Milton O. Meyer, Irving Rivise, Herman Steiner, Jim Schmitt.

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