chess program for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. World Champion Alexander Alekhine played a blindfold simultaneous exhibition on a record-setting 32 boards, winning 19, drawing 9, and losing 4. This broke the previous record of 30 simultaneous blindfold games set by George Koltanowski in Antwerp. Alekhine also played three games of living chess, in which the chess pieces were people in medieval costumes arrayed on a large outdoor board. The last of these games, held on June 19, was against Edward Lasker. A masters tournament was planned for the Fair but was canceled due to lack of funds. The scheduled Intercollegiate Tournament was held and was won by Lieutenant John O. Matheson of West Point. Births Burt Hochberg, American chess writer and editor February 3 — Raúl Sanguinetti in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentinian GM March 5 – Evgeni Vasiukov in Moscow, Russian/Soviet GM May 29 – Nikola Padevsky in Plovdiv, Bulgarian GM September 30 – János Flesch in Budapest, Hungarian GM October 7 – Jonathan Penrose in Colchester, English GM and Correspondence GM October 15 – Zadok Domnitz in Tel Aviv October 15 – James Sherwin in New York City, American IM November 12 – Borislav Ivkov in Belgrade, Serbian/Yugoslavian GM November 13 – Bukhuti Gurgenidze in Surami, Georgia, Georgian/Soviet GM November 15 – Egon Varnusz in Budapest, Hungarian FM and chess writer Deaths March 7 – Hermann von Gottschall, 70, German player March 27 – William Samuel Viner, 52, Australian player April 23 – Henry William Barry, 54, American problemist and problem editor of the American Chess Bulletin July 22 – Adolf Georg Olland, 66, leading Dutch player October 17 – Johann Berger, 88, Austrian player, theorist, and endgame composer References External links 1933 crosstables 20th century in chess Chess by year