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Show Mil MARVEL MUSS Polish Lad Takes on 20 at Once and Defeats All Except One W EST I'oINT. N. Y.. Nov 11 -eighteen officer strategists all and most of them trained in the postgraduate post-graduate school of war -and one picked cadet, the chess slar of the ... adeiny, wont down to defeat in as many games of ehesa last night be- ! fore the Invincible onslaught of Samuel Sam-uel Rsesohewlski. eight -and-a-half-vear-old Polish wonder of the chess board, line of the boy's twenty op-ponent op-ponent played to a draw nt the end of xr. moves. IVGED oi'IDM NTS The bo. who added to the Uurels In has iron from the champions of Vienna, Berlin, Pari Warsaw. Lon-I Lon-I don and other European capitals, played all Of his adversaries slmul- . ,i-uusly moving rnpldlv- from one board to Ihe other and making hi-I hi-I play after lightning calculatlonp Throughout the play Samuel, who is lother an under-stzed child f.r hi year and HppareiilJv differing in no respect, other than his proficiency on the chess board, from others of hin age. was unperturbed in the presence of his opponents many of whom were gray-bearded senior officers who.sr after-dinner games at the officers' mess table are noted throughout the service BOY LAYS TRAP. Before a gallery which thronged the academy irymnasium. the childish prodigy, clad in a blue suit with knickerbockers knick-erbockers and sailor collar, effected his firnt checkmate after 12 moves Tvbich occupied 3' minutes 11 If first victim wa-s P. '. Muver. organist of the school, who I counted U ne of the most formidable players In the state. Mayer, like those who followed him to 'he downfall of their respective pet "systems" got caught I in a trap skilfully laid for him by a ai-c Vision of plays leading to an open formation. |