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Chess is Alive in Detroit
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Batgirl, if you really want to make a completely blank post, click on the "bullets" and then just erase what you wrote. Click post.
Here, I'll spam your thread with examples:
Also, you're probably more used to posting blogs than threads, but there really is no need to bump your threads that frequently (if that's what you're doing).
What's wrong with you known trolls eh?
Yeah... Ches is detroit. I feel it..! lol
macer75 wrote:
Also, you're probably more used to posting blogs than threads, but there really is no need to bump your threads that frequently (if that's what you're doing).
That's not at all what I was doing. I was overriding the anti-spam controls for recent posts placement. Since I've been using these forums for over 9 years, I'm probably somewhat accustomed to them.
Thanks for the comments but I'd really prefer that a comment, if one feels inclined to post one, should be about the topic.
I was researching something about the surgeon, Dr. Howard Gaba for a piece I'm working on involving Detroit chess and came across this thread I created 5 years ago. From the response it seems people aren't all that interested in the Motor City..
I played in the Metropolitan Detroit Association of Chess Clubs League (commonly called the Metro League) when I attended Wayne State University in 1965. I played against some of these men. Dr Gaba, Fred Morningstar, and Thomas Jenkins. And I even played a few casual games with Newell Banks. And apparently Banks had played several casual games against Casablanca, winning one and losing 5. So I got a draw against someone (Banks) who had beaten Capablanca!
I have a particular fondness to the idea of Living Chess pageants. A couple years ago I even dedicated an article to Living Chess. I stumbled across the following article in March 1960 "Chess Review" and thinking it might prove interesting particularly since one of the participants was Newell Banks, I took the time to disassemble and rework it, just to reassemble it here.
An unusual chess exhibition, a game played with human pieces, was held on Nov. 23, 1959 and was sponsored by the Detroit ROTC with the cooperation of the University's theatrical group, The Players, and the U of D Chess Club. Black and White sides were divided into a Monarchy and a Democracy, with the former being dressed in full medieval court costumes and the other pieces being dressed in modern military uniforms, complete with tanks for Castles, pilots for Knights and a president and first lady for King and Queen.
The Monarchy, whose moves were directed by noted chess and checker player, Newell Banks, with the able assistance of former U.S. Open champion Leon Stolzenberg, won the Exchange relatively early in the game, later trapped a Knight, and checkmated Democracy's President (King) on the 59th move.
Directing the movement of the pieces for Democracy was a five man cabinet consisting of former Iowa State champion Dr. William A. Henkin, U.S.C.F. director Thomas A.Jenkins, Michigan Chess Association secretary Fred L. Morningstar, Dr. Howard A. Gaba and Berry Lloyd. All are members of the University of Detroit Chess Club.
The cabinet realized they had a lost game about mid-way through the hostilities; however the game was played to a checkmate to demonstrate a complete game to those in the audience who had never witnessed a chess game.
Plans are being formulated to make this an annual event in conjunction with the annual Motor City Open Tournament, which is sponsored by the University of Detroit Chess Club.