FRANCE, ADOPTIVE HOMELAND OF CHESS PLAYERS

We said yesterday that the chess champion Alekhine would play, on February 1st, in the lobby of the Petit Parisien, twenty-eight simultaneous games of chess, on the occasion of his French naturalization.
Another chess player, of Russian origin, has also recently opted for French nationality. This is the young Aristide Gromer, who, on January 28th, won nineteen games out of twenty-three simultaneous games. Aged sixteen and a half, he has just passed the first part of the baccalaureate with great brilliance and is a philosophy student at the Collège Chaptal, where he is preparing for the École Normale Supérieure.