THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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‘•IT'S YOUR PLAY BIG JIM"
Eskimos Take Up Playing Game Chess
"Hey, pawn, when did you
queen?”
That expression, considered
humorous slang by the early
Persians in western Asia by the
time Mohammed came along, is
just another way of saying, “How
do you get that way?” It was a
hangover from the oldest of in
door sports—not postoffice, but
chess.
And this same game of chess,
which is not only the most an
tiquated of all sports but the
most widespread, is also played
among the Indians and Eskimos
of Alaska. However, contrary to
popular opinion, it is a fairly new
one in Alaska, Chas. W. Hawkes
worth stated recently, according
to a recent issue of the Alaska
Daily Press of Juneau, Alaska.
“Dr. Condon recently met an
Eskimo cripple at Point Barrow
who was in a tent playing chess,"
Hawkesworth said. “The doctor
asked the boy where he learned
the game. ‘Oh, Hawkeschmidt
taught me,’ the man said. And
that was supposed to be yours
truly.”
Main Diversion
It seems that back in 1908
Hawkesworth. who was taught
chess by the famous explorer,
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, made a
trip to Point Barrow. Chess was
the main form of diversion on
this trip, and many of the Eski
mos learned the game from those
on board the ship.
"The Russians, Siberians, and
Catholic priests, who have been
playing the game for centuries,
also taught the game to Alaskan
natives,” Hawkesworth added.
“However, chess is not indigen
ous to Alaska. It is particularly
common around canneries here
where Chinese and Filipinos
work.”
Hawkesworth has two beauti
ful walrus ivory chess sets—one
made by a native boy at Point
Barrow, and the other (wffiich he
keeps in his Bureau of Indian
Affairs office) carved by Eskimos
of King Island.
The King Islanders often de
sign their chess players with a
native teach, it was pointed out.
A K ng is a sea lion, a Eishop a
walrus, a Knight a bear and a
Castle an igloo.
Chess Everywhere
Chess is played everywhere in
the Occident from Iceland to
Turkey, a little boy by the Yaku
tat Indians of Alaska and a great
deal of the furtherest-south set
tlers in Patagonia. There are
over 1,000 chess clubs in the Un
ited States. Russians, so travel
lers say. are almost as mad about
chess as they are about parachute
jumping. In the 1935 tournament
held at Warsaw, there were
teams from 20 countries.
In Asia chess is by all odds the
universal game, it was learned.
It is played in Tibet, India, Mon
golia. Siberia. Japan and Persia—
and everybody plays it, all creeds
and all castes.
Authorities do not agree as to
where chess originated,but its be
ginnings have been traced to
Ceylon in 3000 B. C., and chess
men were found in Tutankha
men's tomb. It was, in fact, en
ough of a fad in India in the fifth
century B.C., for Guatoma Bud
dha to preach against it.
As yet there are no organized
chess clubs in Juneau, and the
trend seems to indicate that there
are relatively few long-winded
species of this brand of homo
sapiens. However, it is under
stood from good authority that |
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first six moves, there will have
been more than 4,000,000,000 oth
er moves they might have made.
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