Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster

A Career Summary with 757 Games
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4766-9295-1
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

This work chronicles the chess career and games of Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan, one of the leading United States players of the 1930s (along with such notables as Fine and Reshevsky). The main body of the work examines Kashdan's game play, with diagrams and analysis provided for many hundreds of his tournament games, match games, speed games, simultaneous exhibitions, training games and consultation games. Some games are accompanied by detailed contemporary analyses written by Kashdan and other prominent chess masters of his era. There are numerous photographs, as well as facsimiles of correspondence. Also included are tournament crosstables, and indexes of Kashdan's opponents.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments     
Introduction     

Part One: The Career of Isaac Kashdan

1. The Early Years
The Years 1923–1929     
Chicago International 1926     
The Hague Olympiad 1928     

2. The Early Thirties
Lajos Steiner Match 1930     
Hamburg Olympiad 1930     
Berlin Quadrangular 1930     
Frankfurt International 1930     
Gyor 1930     
Stockholm 1930     
New York International 1931     
Prague Olympiad 1931     
Bled International 1931     
Hastings Christmas Tournament 1931-32     
London International 1932     
Pasadena International 1932     
Mexico City International 1932     
A Visit to Dallas 1932     
Early 1933     
Folkestone Olympiad 1933     
A Challenge to Marshall 1933     
Resigns as Chief Editor of Chess Review     
Plays Against 26 Teams     
Metropolitan League Play     
35th Western Chess Congress, Chicago 1934     
Syracuse International 1934     
Manhattan Chess Club Championship 1934     

3. The Simultaneous Exhibitions     

4. The Late Thirties
36th Western Championship, Milwaukee 1935     
New York State Championship 1935     
First United States Championship, New York 1936     
37th Western Championship, Philadelphia 1936     
New York State Championship 1936     
Puerto Rico International 1936     
Manhattan Chess Club Championship 1936-37     
Stockholm Olympiad 1937     
Manhattan Chess Club Championship 1937     
Metropolitan League Matches 1938     
Simonson Match 1938     
Helen Kashdan in the United States Women's Championship 1938     
Second United States Championship, New York 1938     
39th American Chess Federation Tournament,
Boston 1938     
Horowitz Playoff Match 1938     
New York State Championship, Hamilton 1939     

5. The Forties
Havana International 1940     
Third United States Championship, New York 1940     
Lasker Memorial     
New York State Tournament, Hamilton 1941     
Manhattan Chess Club Formal Opening 1941     
Fourth United States Championship, New York 1942     
First United States Lightning Championship 1942     
Reshevsky Playoff for the National Title 1942     
Second United States Speed Championship 1943     
Metropolitan Chess League 1944     
Third United States Speed Championship 1944     
Manhattan Championship 1944-45     
Fourth United States Speed Championship 1945     
Pan-American Chess Congress, Hollywood 1945     
United States vs. USSR Radio Match 1945     
Manhattan Speed Tournament 1945     
Metropolitan Championship 1946     
Swedish Speed Tournament 1946     
United States vs. USSR, Moscow 1946     
Sixth United States Championship 1946     
Metropolitan Chess League 1946-47     
A Reception for Former Champion Euwe     
48th United States Open, Corpus Christi 1947     
Argentina–United States Radio Match 1947     
Manhattan Masters Tournament 1948     
49th United States Open, Baltimore 1948     
Seventh United States Championship, South Fallsburg 1948     
New York International 1948-49     

6. The Fifties
Kashdan and Family Move to California     
52nd United States Open, Fort Worth 1951     
Hollywood International 1952     
Hollywood Invitational 1953     
North vs. South California Match 1954     
California Open 1954     
Pan-American Chess Congress, Hollywood 1954     
North vs. South California Match 1955     
USSR–United States Match 1955     

7. The Later Years
Chess Editor of the Los Angeles Times 1956     
North vs. South California Matches 1956–1961     
The Olympiad, Leipzig 1960     
Remains Active     
First Piatigorsky Cup Tournament 1963     
Delegate to FIDE 1964     
Second Piatigorsky Cup Tournament 1966     
California Chess Hall of Fame     
Lone Pine Tournaments     
Fischer–Spassky Match 1972     
Final Years     
The Kashdan Legacy (by Arnold Denker)     

Part Two: The Games of Isaac Kashdan
The Outstanding Games (listed)     
Tournament and Match Games (1–661)     
Simultaneous Exhibition Games (662–717)     
United States Speed Tournament Games (718–734)     
Informal, Consultation, Practice, etc. Games (735–758)     

Part Three: Appendices and Indexes
Isaac Kashdan's Overall Record
The Five Olympiads, 1928–1937     
The U.S. Championships, 1936–1948     
The Tournament Record     
The Match Record     
Metropolitan League Matches     
Tournament Crosstables     
Bibliography     
Index of Players     
Index of ECO Openings     
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

The late Peter P. Lahde was a former editor of Tennessee Chess News. He had written on Albert Beauregard Hodges, Alekhine, the Hastings tournaments, the modern United States Chess Championship, and chess in Tennessee. He was a retired research chemist and lived in Nashville.