Roy T. Black, winner of the championship of Brooklyn seven times, was born in that borough of New York City. His local successes were supplemented by his winning the N. Y. State championship in 1914 and participation in the last two cable matches of the series of thirteen between America and Great Britain, wherein he won both of his games. He tied with Chajes for second and third prizes in the Metropolitan League masters' tournament in 1915, finishing with a score of 11½-3½, The title of Brooklyn champion came to him in 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1917 and 1918.
Placed just below the prize winners in the New York tournament of 1911. Black was the only one to win a game
from Capablanca, a reverse that cost the Cuban master the first prize. The Brooklyn champion's finest performance in international chess was his winning of the third prize in the Rice Chess Club's masters' tournament in 1913, when he made a score of 10-3, his two defeats being at the hands of Capablanca and Duras, who alone were ahead of him.
In 1909 Black accomplished the seemingly impossible by scoring a match against Charles Nugent without winning a single game; in fact, he lost the only game contested, his opponent forfeiting the rest, which gave Black the match by 5-1. In 1917 Black defeated Howell by 3-1, with 1 draw, and in 1918 he won from A. Schroeder by 5-3, with 2 draws.
Source: Book of the 1918 International Masters' Tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club
In 1920-1921, he tied for 1st at the Manhattan Chess Club championship, but lost the playoff to David Janowski.
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