Author: Reinfeld, Fred (1910-1964)
Year: 1940
Publisher: United States Chess Federation
Place: Milwaukee
Description:
[ixv]-[15]-82+[4 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spien and front cover. Edited by George S Barnes. (Betts: 25-146; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5609) First edition.
This tournament marked a transition in the history of chess in the United States, when at the closing dinner an announcement was made of the agreed merger between the American Chess Federation and National Chess Federation. Beginning the next year, the United States Chess Federation would organize the US Open, and the tournament took another step in its development. As for 1939, there is some confusion about the official name of the tournament. Usually, it's called the 40th American Chess Federation Congress, keeping the traditional numbering alive. And officers of the ACF were heavily involved in the organization. Also, this was the name used in daily reports in the New York Times. While the report in The Chess Review of September 1939 called it "1939 North American Championship, that may have applied only to the formal name of the Championship Final. Two rounds daily, at 1:30 and 7:30 pm. Time control of 40 moves in two hours, adjournments after four hours play to be continued the next morning. Originally, there were to be three eight-player sections each qualifying four players for the Championship Final, though late entries changed this to four seven-player sections, each with three qualifiers. Play apparently began on the 18th, following an organizational player's meeting on the 17th. There were four preliminary rounds and the qualifiers from each were: Preliminary Section 1: Samuel Reshevsky, Olaf Ulvestad and Weaver Warren Adam; Preliminary Section 2: Ruben Fine, Herbert Seidman and Gabriel Hellman qualified with a coin toss with Daniel Abraham Yanofsky who had been tied; Preliminary Section 3: Israel Albert Horowitz, Charles Jaffe and Matthew Green; Preliminary Section 4: Albert Pinkus, Anthony Santasiere and Boris Blumin. Fine and Reshevsky left absolutely no doubt who were the big dogs in town. Fine won all his game except with Reshevsky which was a draw, and Reshevsky was kept from a tie with a draw from Pinkus. Horowitz was a distant third with only eight points.
Condition:
Points bumped, text becoming detached from boards still with the original onion skin wrapper else a very good to fine copy.
Year: 1940
Publisher: United States Chess Federation
Place: Milwaukee
Description:
[ixv]-[15]-82+[4 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spien and front cover. Edited by George S Barnes. (Betts: 25-146; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5609) First edition.
This tournament marked a transition in the history of chess in the United States, when at the closing dinner an announcement was made of the agreed merger between the American Chess Federation and National Chess Federation. Beginning the next year, the United States Chess Federation would organize the US Open, and the tournament took another step in its development. As for 1939, there is some confusion about the official name of the tournament. Usually, it's called the 40th American Chess Federation Congress, keeping the traditional numbering alive. And officers of the ACF were heavily involved in the organization. Also, this was the name used in daily reports in the New York Times. While the report in The Chess Review of September 1939 called it "1939 North American Championship, that may have applied only to the formal name of the Championship Final. Two rounds daily, at 1:30 and 7:30 pm. Time control of 40 moves in two hours, adjournments after four hours play to be continued the next morning. Originally, there were to be three eight-player sections each qualifying four players for the Championship Final, though late entries changed this to four seven-player sections, each with three qualifiers. Play apparently began on the 18th, following an organizational player's meeting on the 17th. There were four preliminary rounds and the qualifiers from each were: Preliminary Section 1: Samuel Reshevsky, Olaf Ulvestad and Weaver Warren Adam; Preliminary Section 2: Ruben Fine, Herbert Seidman and Gabriel Hellman qualified with a coin toss with Daniel Abraham Yanofsky who had been tied; Preliminary Section 3: Israel Albert Horowitz, Charles Jaffe and Matthew Green; Preliminary Section 4: Albert Pinkus, Anthony Santasiere and Boris Blumin. Fine and Reshevsky left absolutely no doubt who were the big dogs in town. Fine won all his game except with Reshevsky which was a draw, and Reshevsky was kept from a tie with a draw from Pinkus. Horowitz was a distant third with only eight points.
Condition:
Points bumped, text becoming detached from boards still with the original onion skin wrapper else a very good to fine copy.