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70+directory+[5 ad] pages with diagrams, illustrations, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red wrappers. (Betts: 25-134;(Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5578) First edition.The 39th American Chess Federation Congress, also known as the North American Championship, was held at the Hotel Touraine. A total of 42 players participated (with one additional no-show), and were divided in six seven-player preliminary sections from which the top two finishers qualified for the Championship final, 3rd-4th for the Consolation Masters, and 5th-7th for the Class A Final. In the preliminary phase, two rounds were played most days in the afternoon and evening, with adjournments played off in the afternoon before round 5. The qualifiers for the championship round were Isaac Kashdan, Israel Albert Horowitz, Boris Blumin, David S Polland, Anthony Santasiere, Harold Morton, George Shainswit, John W Collins, Charles Jaffe, Jack Moskowitz, Paul Rosenzweig and Burton O… Read More

Milwaukee. : American Chess Federation. , 1939. Red stapled wraps. . A very good copy. . 24.4x16 cm. . Inscribed and signed on the endpaper by chess master George Koltanowski.

x-[11]-86 pages with frontispiece, tables, diagrams and photographs. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (Betts: 25-125) First edition.In the early years of the tournament, the number of entrants was small, and play was conducted as round robins with preliminaries, Championship Finals, and Consolation Finals. At first, the tournament was the championship of the Western Chess Association (originally the Northwestern Chess Association), and was a round robin among whoever happened to show up. It remained a round robin through a semi-inviational phase, but gradually introduced preliminary and final sections to accommodate more players. The exact area controlled by the Western Chess Association varied from the Mississippi Valley region to all of the United States and Canada west of Pennsylvania and New York. The American Chess Federation staked its claim in the East this year, and drew a record turnout of fifty players who braved… Read More