Events in chess in 1933: The 5th Chess Olympiad (known at the time as the Folkestone Team Tournament or the Hamilton-Russell Cup) is held in Folkestone. The United States wins the gold medal, Czechoslovakia silver, and Sweden bronze. The Women's World Championship is held in conjunction with the Olympiad. Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia) easily retains her title. The Bulgarian Championship is inaugurated in Varna. Chess Review is established by Isaac Kashdan. The leading American chess magazine for most of its run, the Chess Review would be published from January 1933 until November 1969 when it merged with Chess Life to form Chess Life & Review. Tournaments Hastings Christmas Congress, held 28 December 1932 to 6 January 1933, is won by Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) for the second consecutive year, scoring 7/9 with no losses. Vasja Pirc (Yugoslavia) is second with 6½ followed by Mir Sultan Khan with 6. Masters tournament in Budapest is won by Esteban Canal with 10/14, followed by Pál Réthy with 9½, Andor Lilienthal with 9, Lajos Steiner with 8½, and Erich Eliskases with 8. United States Team Tournament held to select players to join Frank Marshall and Isaac Kashdan on the US Olympiad team is won by Reuben Fine with 8/11, followed by Arthur Dake and A.C. Simonson tied at 7½. Aachen is the site of a National Masters tournament in June, won by Efim Bogoljubow. The tournament is organized by the Grossdeutsche Schachbund, a new state-supported chess federation with Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels serving as honorary chair. The editors of Chess Review decry the virtual exclusion of Jews from German chess, not only from tournaments but also from chess cafés and playing rooms. Western Open held September 23 to October 1 in Detroit is won by Reuben Fine with 12/13 over Samuel Reshevsky with 11 and Arthur Dake with 9½. Fine scored +10−1=0, the only loss being to Reshevsky. Matches 57th Varsity Match in April is won by Oxford over Cambridge, 5–2. Cambridge leads the overall series by 26 matches to 25, with 6 ties. Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) beats Henry Grob (Switzerland), 4½–1½. Reuben Fine defeats Arthur Dake +4−2=3 in a match held in New York City at the Marshall Chess Club and the Manhattan Chess Club. Flohr and Mikhail Botvinnik draw a match held in Moscow and Leningrad, 2 wins, 2 losses and eight draws each. Exhibitions The National Chess Federation (United States) organized a