A VISITOR FROM SWITZERLAND
Br. Kltner, a member of tlio chess clj bat Basle, paid two visits recently to the "e™»Br ton Chess Club, dellßhtlug members with his rapid and very* enterprises play. i»o frequency with which he offers material that his opponent dare not capture is one of the many auractlvo featured of ..hi. >»«f» uW *fS Dr. Either. It may be added has -roguently met Dr. Aliechln. the -woria-jrUa-rapiori. "whose mother is buried in Basic. -.AlJechln was playing a game of chess in Russia when he was arrested by the Soviet authorities. tinder the impression that the . police J^ °n* detain him a few minutes, he «*ld to h!» ?t ponent that ho would soon bo back U nntsii the game. It was, however, over five years when ttiey next met (In another country), S nd Aljechln once more gave proof of having a wonderful.memory by immediately Putting up the position of the Kame that had been so rudely- interrupted, thus enabling It to be finished after all. ■?■ -■■ ■ -
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 51, 4 March 1929, Page 14
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A VISITOR FROM SWITZERLAND
Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 51, 4 March 1929, Page 14
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