Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — Seven-Year Chess Game at Last Comes to End [ARTICLE]

Seven-Year Chess Game at Last Comes to End

Portland, Ore.--Walter J. Dodge, of Portland, recently completed a chass game that started in 1926, seven years ago, and believes that he holds a record of some kind. His opponent was George S. Dodge, of Montebello, Calif., a brother. The two men played a game, which was one of three chess contests started by mail in 1922 between three Stanford university chums. The three pals decided chess games by mail were at least one way of keeping alive their college friendship. Alan E. Payne was third member of the chess clique. He plays one of the Dodges while the other “rests.” The brothers compete in the third tilt First contests were completed in 1926, after a mere four years of cogitation and planning of moves. The next series, which was just completed, took seven years. An average of ten moves a year was made in the last game, Dodge reported.