Chess Club Sponsors Berliner In Simultaneous Match Play

The Colorado Springs Chess Club will sponsor Hans Berliner, one of America's leading chessmasters, in a simultaneous chess match against all comers at the Broadmoor Hotel tonight at 7:30.

Berliner, an industrial psychologist at the Martin Company's Titan missile plant in Littleton, is one of the country's most active players and is ranked as a Senior Chessmaster by the U.S. Federation. His transfer to Colorado last year gave the state its first chessmaster, and Berliner obliged by winning the 1959 State Championship.

Berliner's record of tournament wins over a seven year span includes the New York State, District of Columbia (four times), Eastern Open, the Washington, D.C. Chess Club (six times), North Central Open, and the Mid-Continent Open. He finished fifth in the U.S. Open last summer at Omaha.

Tonight's exhibition will pit Berliner against the region's leading players in which he will give his opponents a time advantage of approximately 30-1 to study their moves, while he moves from board to board making his moves in rapid succession.

The exhibition will be held in the Broadmoor Hotel ballroom, and spectators will be admitted free of charge. Participants will be charged a board fee to defray expenses and will be expected to provide their own boards and chessmen.

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Chessmaster Hans Berliner, one of the country's top 10 chessmasters and current Colorado state champion, met 37 of the state's best chess players in a simultaneous match played at the Broadmoor Hotel Friday night and won 29, lost five and drew three.

George Bailey and Jerry Conley won their matches and Juan Reid and Melvin Davis drew with the chessmaster. All four are members of the Colorado Springs Chess Club. Other winners were Dennis Naylin and Robert Shean of Denver and Glenn Mullins of Cotopaxi. John Miller of Rocky Ford was the third player to draw.

Berliner's opponents had a 37 to 1 advantage to study their moves while he was going from table to table making his moves. Although most of the games were over in a few hours, it was 3:00 a.m. before the final game was completed, extending the match over a seven hour period.

The Colorado Springs Chess Club sponsored the event as a feature of the membership drive for the United States [Chess] Federation, national governing body for the game of chess. Twenty-one participants joined the national organization as a result of the exhibition.