My Grandfather's Game: 1937

I was really happy to find my grandfather Averill Powers game vs Dake talked about at chessgames website recently... my grandfather taught me how to play when I was little, and now that he's no longer alive, it's important to me to keep it alive.

Here is that intriguing little game, tell me what you think!

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243095

PS, my grandfather had a few really cute sayings, "Now you're cookin' with gasoline!" he said all the time, or he'd reach to shake your hand and say "Shake!" then when you went to shake his hand, he'd pull it away and say "Speare!"  He was a regular nerd.  But a well rounded one, a loving husband, great mind, not just for chess but for business as well, running a travel agency with his wife for some 40+ years...  I miss him.

Did he have any little story about the Dake game?

Did Dake make a face or sigh or just shake hands?

It's nice to see your contribution here.

Dake moved back to Oregon and for me was our only chess luminary, though still retired from the game for many years, for us in Oregon as Washington and Canada had better players.

Beating Dake, even in a simul, is something to brag about, even if it was a flukey quick knockout (but those are fun in any case). He was famously noted for his quickness of board vision and was a good simul exhibitor. Of course, his IM title came a bit later but for achievements in the era he played your grandfather.

My grandfather was Wisconsin Chess Champion in 1943, '45, '50, and '54, there's a great article about Bobby Fischer staying at his house one weekend when he was in town playing a tournament.

I'll have to ask my mom if he ever talked about the match.  My mom has the only copies of every Chess publication from my grandfather's column that he ran for many years "The Game of Kings", which is amazing, I want to publish them all in a single tome.  Even the newspaper doesn't have copies that far back and the library only has them on  microfiche.

Grandpa never bragged ever about any game that he won.  If he was thrilled, he always kept it to himself.