Oh ya, I have tons of games between he and Arpad in his own handwriting.
https://picasaweb.google.com/kpowers101/AverillPowersChessGames2#
Interesting fact, Arpad and my grandfather actually shared the Wisconsin championship title twice! Once in 1940 and also in 1950!
Source: http://www.wischess.org/state-champions-mainmenu-105.html
In my Chess Review collection I have:
L.Ayers v. A. Powers 1945 (Milwaukee v. Rest of wisconsin Team match) 1-0 33 moves
A. Powers A. Sandrin Jr. 1945 (Interstate Match) 1-0 22 moves
T. Terry v. A. Powers 1946 (Wisconsin Ch.) 0-1 14 moves
--Finished 3rd-5th Wisconsin Ch. 1947, after Kujoth and Ayers--
A. Elo v. A. Powers 1948 (Milwaukee Ch.) 0-1 20 moves
Check your games and if you don't have these I'll get them to you.
Will check right now, thanks!
I do not have those! Please send them.
THANKS!
Am curious how you got the games? What your source was, and why you kept them?
Delete that unless that's a junk email.
I can get them to you here.
Gotcha, thanks.
Am curious how you got the games? What your source was, and why you kept them?
Chess Review magazine had a long run from the 1930s to about 1970.
Lots of chess history in those pages!
I have a few bound years as well as some individual issues into the 50s and 60s.
Amazing, we have tons of Chess Life Magazine, but not Chess Review I don't think.
Games sent.
They are in pgn format, which is best choice for a collection like this.
Absolutely, thank you, I already uploaded them to my grandfather's website.
I have a game from 1937, Powers - Dake 1-0 (Milwaukee), But I have no name or initial for Powers?
Rooperi, is it this game? -> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243095
Yes, it is.
Now this is such a coincidence, I did not play through the game when I made the 1st post, but look:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/flummoxing-the-alekhine-again?lc=1#last_comment
I see in the December 1961 USCF rating list that he has a rating of 2032.
I see in the December 1961 USCF rating list that he has a rating of 2032.
Thanks for that information, I've been trying to find that out for awhile now.
Thank you for posting this and providing the links to his games. Your grandfather was indeed one of the strongest and dedicated players from Milwaukee during this period.
Have you posted the newspaper columns? I was planning to hunt for them just next week at the Milwaukee library for a project I am writing.
Both the google and his grandson's site have disappeared unfortunately. Perhaps he'll answer.
Averill Powers was my grandfather. A chess champion of Wisconsin for the years of 1943, '45, '50, and '54, my teacher, a friend I never got to spend as much time with as I wish I had.
According to the December 1961 USCF rating list, my grandfather had a chess rating of 2032.
He was a very bright and well-rounded man, he ran a travel agency with his wife Rose for ~40 years, and published a chess column for many years called The Game of Kings, of which my mom has every single article clipped in a scrapbook, which I intend to get published within the next few years so people can read them, as they are the only known copies in existence at this time, even the newspaper doesn't have them anymore, (we're talking '30s-'50s).
There is only one game of his on chessgames, but I have over 100 games in his own handwriting I've been translating and putting up on my website for people to play out: http://powers.kittysafe.net and if anyone wants to help translate someone please drop me a line.
Anyway, I wanted to mention him, he taught me chess as a little boy, and I miss him. He passed in 2000.
Some fun things about him:
Bobby Fischer stayed at his house for a weekend during a tournament, (story can be Googled), he had a few cute sayings, such as "now you're cookin' with gasoline" and he would reache out to shake your hand and say, "Shake!", and when you reached out your hand, he would pull his away and exclaim "Speare!"... he was pretty silly, but also an intensely serious and flexible chess player.