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93 - Arthur Dake

was born on April 8, 1910 in Portland, Oregon, a family of Polish farmers (his real surname was Darkowski) emigrated to the United States. At 16, he boarded a merchant ship as a seaman, visiting China, Japan and the Philippines. In 1927 was back in Portland, he attended high school and learned the game from a Russian. Seafaring wanderings resumed, in 1929 he landed in New York and began playing at a Coney Island booth where the public could challenge him for 25 cents per game.
In 1930 he joined the New York State Championship, finishing in third place, and in 1931 he won the Marshall Chess Club Championship Thanks to these results was drafted into the U.S. Olympic team of 1931 (Prague) where he obtained a good + 5 = 7 -2 in the third game board. That same year he was the first (ex aequo with Rubinstein and Yates) in the tournament in Antwerp in 1932 and came third in Pasadena, after Alekhine and Kashdan; the game that I will show below, which defeated the world champion, established a kind of record, as was the first American player who managed to win against Alekhine.
In 1933 he was deployed in the fourth board of Folkestone Olympics, winning the individual silver (+9 = 2 -2) and in 1934 was third in the championship and third U.S. also open the tournament in Syracuse, won by Reshevsky, while at the tournament in Mexico City Year's came first ex aequo with Kashdan, and Finish.
In 1935, after a second place behind open end to the use , won the individual gold on the fourth Olympics board of Warsaw, with a remarkable +13 = 5 -0. On ship bringing back the American squadron met his future wife Helen, were married and returned to Portland, where he was employed at the ' Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles , employment he held for over thirty years.
Apart from some occasional appearances for a third of a century Dake disappeared from important events, until, at age 65, played at the tournament in Lone Pine, and then play 77 years (!) To 'USA open that disputed that year in his Portland, where he earned a remarkable 8 to 12. The previous year the FIDE awarded him the honorary title of Grand Master in consideration of his findings in the Thirties. He died in
Reno, Nevada, April 28, 2000, seized with a fatal illness after an evening spent playing blackjack the famous Sands Casino.
And here's the game where he beat the world champion.
Dake - Alekhine (Pasadena, 1932): 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e: d5 c: d5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. AE6 CF3 7. c5 g6 8. Bb5 Bg7 9. Se5 Dc8 10. DA4 Bd7 11. 00 00 12. AF4 a6 13. A: b c6: c6 14. Tfe1 Ch5 15. Ad2 Ta7 16. TE2 AE8 (this stage of initial skirmish gives the impression of a Dake with clear ideas and a Alekhine slightly undecided about what to do) 17. Tae1 f5 18. CF3 Nf6 19. T: T e7: e7 20. T: e7 f4 21. A: Ce4 f4 22. AE5 Ah6 (failing to provide a brilliant continuation of the opponent) 23. C: d e4: e4 24. Ng5! DF5 25. Db3 + AF7 26. C: T f7: f7 27. T: D f7: f7 28. Db8 + DF8 29. d5! e3 30. D f4: b8 31. A: b8 Rf7 32. d: c6 Ke8 33. g5 b4 34. g3 g: f4 35. g: f4 Kd8 36. RC8 a4 37. Ad6 Bg7 38. RF1, Black leaves.