From Former Times (Chess)

Edward Winter



C.N. 10162 included this cutting from page 7 of the New Castle Herald, 28 March 1923:

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The caption prompts us to give the following:

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CHESS, 14 September 1935, page 19

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CHESS, May 1949, page 195

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CHESS, End-December 1965, page 129.

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Another cartoon from CHESS (page 50 of the December 1939 issue):

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Source: page 13 of “Among These Mates” by Chielamangus (Sydney, 1939).

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For the accompanying article, see C.N. 10973.




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Source: page 187 of Chess Review, September 1939.

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From page 17 of Melbourne Punch, 20 July 1871:

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Source: Chess Review, August 1934, page 133.

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From page 39 of Chess the Hard Way! by D.A. Yanofsky (London, 1953) comes this passage regarding the 1939 Olympiad in Buenos Aires:

‘By winning the next two games I scored 9˝ points out of a possible 10 and was awarded a silver cigarette holder inscribed: “Mejor Jugador del Torneo” [best player of the tournament].’

Times have certainly changed, as it is hard to imagine that organizers today would offer a 14-year-old boy anything smacking of smoking.

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See Chess and Tobacco.

A news item on page 231 of the September 1952 CHESS:

‘H.V. Trevenen, several times West of England Champion, and as nice a fellow as anyone could wish to meet, has been in a mental home for some months. We understand there is a family history.’



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