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Kashdan's <72.Rxc2+> should win, but he missed the winning move later. Can you spot it?

<72.Rxc2+ Kxc2 73.a7 Rd8 74.Ka6 Kb3 75.b5 Kc4 76.b6 Kc5 77.b7 Rd6+ 78.Ka5 Rd1 79.Ka4 Kc4 80.Ka3 Kc3> 1/2-1/2

Donald MacMurray - Isaac Kashdan
Western Championship (Finals) Chicago, IL (7), 31.07.1934

<1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3 dxe4 4.fxe4 e5 5.Nf3 exd4 6.Bc4 Bb4+ 7.c3 dxc3 8.Bxf7+ Ke7 9.Qb3>

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Still book at this point. Well, we can fix that.

<9...cxb2+ 10.Qxb4+ Kxf7 11.Bxb2 Nf6 12.Qb3+ Ke8 13.Nbd2 Na6 14.Ng5>

The beginning of many, many adventures.

<14...Qe7 15.Ba3 c5 16.0-0 Ng4 17.Nf7 Rf8 18.Nc4 Qe6 19.Rad1 Ke7 20.Rd6 Qxe4 21.Rdd1 Be6 22.Rfe1 Qf4>

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Now 23.Rxe6+! wins briliantly; for instance, 23...Kxe6 24.Rd6+ Kxf7 25.Ne5+ Ke8 26.Qe6#. White's choice should also win, though.

<23.Qxb7+ Qc7 24.Ng5>

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Once again 24.Rxe6+ was the move. But how does Black get out of this mess?

<25...Rf1+ 25.Kxf1 Qxb7 26.Nxe6 Kf6 27.Rd6 Kf7 28.Rd8 Qb5 29.Rxa8 Qxc4+ 30.Kg1 Qc3 31.Rxa7+ Kf6 32.Rf1+ Ke5 33.Bc1 Nb4 34.Ra3 Qc2 35.Re1+ Kd5 36.Rf3 Kc6 37.Ba3 Nd3>

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Once again, my computer (are you kidding? I value my sanity too much to try and analyze this stuff) indicates a winning game for White with 38.Bxc5! Nxe1 39.Nd4+ Kxc5 40.Nxc2 Nxf3+ 41.gxf3, with a pawn up ending. However, it's likely the time control was at move 40, and I'm sure both flags had been hanging by a proton for quite a while. Not that it would have mattered, since any tournament officials would have been paying too much attention to the game to notice a flag fall.

<38.Ref1 Nge5 39.Rf5 Qxa2 40.Nxc5 Qxa3 41.Nxd3 Qxd3> 0-1

White could argue the point for a while, but he probably didn't have any nerves left.

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<Phony: Kashdan's <72.Rxc2+> should win, but he missed the winning move later. Can you spot it?

<72.Rxc2+ Kxc2 73.a7 Rd8 74.Ka6 Kb3 75.b5 Kc4 76.b6 Kc5 77.b7 Rd6+ 78.Ka5 Rd1 79.Ka4 Kc4 80.Ka3 Kc3> 1/2-1/2 >

http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/...

Manhattan Chess Club tournament, 1926

1. Kupchik 12.0
2. Kashdan 11.5
3. Horowitz 9.0
4-5. Bornholz 8.5
4-5. Maroczy 8.5
6-8. Pinkus 8.0
6-8. Steiner 8.0
6-8. Tenner 8.0

Dake, Kashdan and wife, Simonson, Marshall, Fine>

Great pic, thanks! I wish I was there...then again, maybe not as I'd be a goner by now, too. :)

See http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (#6364. Stoltz v Kashdan)

Also http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (#6339. Kashdan)

An autographed item, signed <Irving Kashdan> is shown:

http://www.worldchesshof.org/upload...

Apparently he was quite a ladies man - ha!

<The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 31 Mar 1932 p28>

<In recognition of what Isaac Irving Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess Club, has performed in behalf of the game through his achievements abroad in the international tournaments against the best that Europe could put forward and as a member of the United States teams which finally brought the Hamilton-Russell trophy to this country, the Empire City Chess Club has decided to arrange an exhibition of simultaneous ply by him at the Hotel Prince George in Manhattan on April 24.>

http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/5...

That's quite a lot of info packed into one sentence... whew!

<Kashdan>
Kashdan has sprung up into fame
All of a sudden, as it were.
Scarcely a handful till quite late
Had been familiar with his name.
"Divine afflatus" he has shown
A gift bequeathed him by the gods,
Now far and wide his power is known.

<How Benny Leonard Explains Jewish Sport Depression
By HARRY CONZEL
Outstanding Jewish Sports Writer

The reviewer of the Jewish sport year must hang his
head because of the definite downfall of Jewish champions in every branch of sport. Harry Conzel and Benny Leonard tell us why Jewish topnotchers in sports are becoming scarcer just now.
—THE EDITOR.>

A little later the "outstanding" writer finally gets around to Kashdan...

<But America saw one real Jewish champion emerge last year. You
openair fans will shrug your shoulders
when I mention his name. Probably
you will frown and say: "Chess isn't
a sport, anyhow." Perhaps you are
right. But the question of whether or
not chess is a sport is too complicated
to discuss on a hot summer day.
In any case, chess is to be found on
the sports page, and you'll accept it
as a sport—and like it. Now, the boy
who has come through is none other
than I. Kashdan, the New York player
who on his first trip to Europe,
last year, came back with flying colors.
Experts like Charles Jaffe, himself
once a great master, insist that
Kashdan is ripe for a title match with
Dr. Alekhine. Until this year Kashdan
was playing in minor New York
City tournaments, and did not reveal
his real strength until he was confronted
by the best players of Europe.
Now, whenever Frank Marshall,
official champion of the United States,
will give Kashdan the opportunity to
play him for the title, we shall have
a new national champion here. Yes ?
Rather a poor consolation for you
gridiron, boxing and baseball fans—
but chess is the only sport where we
have not only held our own but made
advances and discovered new blood.

It is also rumored that when the
game of ping-pong, or table tennis,
will be given recognized standing in
the world of sport, the Jews will
capture all honors. In this game
which is to tennis what miniature
golf is to real golf it seems, from a
personal investigation, that we have
the best talents. Take it from me—
the time is not far off when pingpong
will be prominently displayed
on your sports page.

The other day I was discussing this
strange downfall of the Jews in
sport with none other than our own
Benny Leonard. "How come," I
asked Benny, who besides being an
artist in the ring is one of the brainiest
sport thinkers in the business,
"that we Jews seem to have reached
our peak in sports some years ago,
and now are on the down grade?"

Said Benny: "Sport is a strange
business when you think of it in racial
or national terms. It goes in
cycles, if you know what I mean.
There was a time when the Negro
dominated the field; one Jack Johnson
acted as the inspiration, and suddenly
colored champions sprang up
in practically every branch of sport.
Then, after a few years, another race
comes to the fore. At the time of
Carpentier, the French had a number
of other champions in boxing, race
and track—you remember Bouin and
Andres ? At another time it was
the Italians who hoarded all the
glory, with Dundee and Mandell in
boxing, and also in soccer. Irish and
Jews have had their day. Now, I
think, the Germans will have their
inning. Just watch what Max
Schmeling's victory over Stribling
will do for the Germans. I shouldn't
be surprised to see the Germans run
away with the Olympic games in
1932. That's how it works—it goes
in cycles. Jews will have another period
of success in sports; it may be
just around the corner, and it may
come in ten years. After all, we had
Lenglen, Abrahams, the Hakoahs and
Benny Friedman almost all at once
That's enough, isn't it?"

<Is that strictly legal?>

If a published, pre-1963, non-renewed then yes:

http://copyright.cornell.edu/resour...

Plus CMU allows the PDF to be freely downloaded.

But copyright law is complicated, and the above should not be construed as legal advice.

<And where's the concluding section?>

I would suggest cleaning off your glasses and giving it another look (if not a read).

Kashdan's photo looks chintzy⁽¹⁾ with the top margin uneven like that (imo). I know that's how the wiki photo is, but can't we do better?

Either crop it or even it out with photoshop ink-stamp, would be my suggestion.

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(1) <chintz (n.) 1719, plural of chint (1610s), from Hindi chint, from Sanskrit chitra-s "clear, bright" (compare cheetah). The plural (the more common form of the word in commercial use) became regarded as singular by late 18c., and for unknown reason shifted -s to -z; perhaps after quartz. Disparaging sense, from the commonness of the fabric, is first recorded 1851 in George Eliot (in chintzy).>

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php...