A blind boy recently defeated the chess champion of the world. Signor Capablanca, the champion, visited Worcester < England) Blind College, where tho studeuts have achieved great Mie-c-oi-s in inter-school panics, and engaged 15 ofthem in simultaneous matches, in addition to '2~> representatives of T\'or-ecstt-r City, Stourbridge, .TCvershnm, Malvern, and other district clubs. The champion won 39 of the 40 games. Heed, -who played fourth board for tho school, had the honour of tho solitary victory. Signor Capablanea opened with the Iluy Lopez panic, to which Reed replied with the classical defence. The chJmpion lost his queen in tho middle of tbo frame, and also tho exchange. He resigned on the 37th move, llcod is in his fourth year at tho college, and learned his chcss there, lie •*lB years of age.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16729, 12 January 1920, Page 8
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