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Arthur Blaine Stamer

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Years covered: 1913 to 1952


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ARTHUR BLAINE STAMER
(born Apr-27-1884, died Feb-17-1964, 79 years old) United States of America

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Director of the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco from 1951 until 1964. He won the Mechanics' Institute CC championship in 1905 and 1923.


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A B Stamer vs A J Fink  0-1201913Mechanics InstituteC45 Scotch Game
2. Reshevsky vs A B Stamer  ½-½601921Simul, 12bC79 Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred
3. W P Barlow vs A B Stamer  0-1361952San FranciscoC30 King's Gambit Declined
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Aug-02-08  myschkin: . . .
<A. B. Stamer>,
one of the last of the old-timers of the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club, died in San Francisco in early 1964 after a short illness. Arthur was a veteran of the famous team which played <telegraphic chess> in the 1920s (and started the North vs. South over-the-board team matches by meeting Los Angeles at Atascadero in 1926), and he was a contemporary of E.W. Gruer, Dr. W.R. Lovegrove, A.J. Fink, E.J. Clark, Dr. G.E.K. Branch, Bernardo Smith, W.H. Smith, J.F. Smyth, L. Rosenblatt, E.O. Fawcett and many other members of the Mechanics' Institute Hall of Game. Arthur won the premier tournament of the Mechanics' Institute in 1908. He sometimes showed the inscribed gold medal to youngsters: One side read "Champion, Mechanics' Institute Premier Tournament." Then came his little joke when he showed the date on the reverse!

Stamer was in his seventies and was a retired superintendent of city deliveries, U.S. Post Office. He was secretary of the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club, and his death was a sore blow to the club. However, his brother Walter and his son Chet are still holding up the chess tradition of the family. (Chet won a special prize in the A.B. Stamer Memorial Tournament held in May, 1964).

<Art> was a San Franciscan through and through. He was working with his dad in the restaurant business when the 1906 earthquake and fire hit our city. In 1910 he began working with Uncle Sam's post office here in S.F. and stayed with it until he retired in 1941. He loved to recall the many great events that have happened at Mechanics' Institute through the years. He believed the most memorable event was when <Pillsbury> put on an exhibition here in 1902. Pillsbury played 16 games of chess blindfolded while he also played 4 games of checkers and some 6 hands of whist. He won all of his whist games and checker games, and all of his chess games but two - one of the victors being A. B. Stamer.

(Jim Reynolds)

RIP Art ...

Sep-24-10
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  GrahamClayton: Director of the Mechanics Institute Chess Club in San Fransisco from 1951 to 1964. Was Mechanics Institute Chess Club champion in 1905 and 1923. Pictures of the championship medals here:

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Dec-08-18
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  mifralu: ARTHUR <BLAINE> STAMER

< San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Nov 1905, Page 31 >

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