The Archive · 1939

Chess Championship 0f Shanghai

Second Round Played at Club on Wednesday

The second round of the Shanghai Bir net et be Sut of order in the ly signs

Bing rounds.

Serejnikoff, one of the youngest is, boldly but somewhat prematurely offered the sacrifice of a whole piece for the sake of an Poliakoff. The cham-extricated himself from a a jen position and finally paid the penalty for capturing his opponent, Kosovsky

a pawn early in the game against Karpen who eventually succeeded In working up a mating attack and 8 Kosoysky to give up the r à position with fairly even ange, The game was adjourned Be d master player fairly easily crushed *Shishkin's - timid defensive pay. Dr. Lippiner scored his second los of the tournament, Galkin t against "Prot, Ely, The two

pad Jiritsky, played a very interesting game Which was adjourned and Stesineviteh and Zerkovitz postponed their game, In the other sections results were as follows:—

Sabouroff X Favstritsky 0; Shiffsten ultzer 1, Baromidze Odentseff 0; Spitzer Sk e, Boldman 1. The feller adjourned their matches. Bek, Dr. aleck, Panchenko, Fine:

Hatlionott 3 Bûmoff, Major Febr. Mandel 0, Oksus 1; dolia ed Karmiloff lawing adjourn In view of Ampon's remarkable improvement during his stay in America the visitors should again find no difficulty in disposing of the best Shanghai has to offer.

gave both Adrian Quist and John Bromwich, the Australian stars, serious opposition in the Devis Cup matches. Later, at Forest Hills, Ampon met Bobby Riggs in the early round of the American Singles Championship and tok the world's ranking player to four sets. The Filipino elifaxed his tour by Winning a set to love from Riggs

early last month. in the Ta c Coast Championships The two visitors are to arrive in the morning of November T in the President Coolidge. According to the local office of the President Lines, the Coolidge is scheduled to reach here at 9,90 am, unless some lem: delay occurs,

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