The team
rosters were:
City College-
Anthony E. Santasiere,
Erling Tholfsen, H. Grossman and M. Levine
Pennsylvania-
G.O.
Petty, S. T. Kosovsky, J.
F. Casciato, and H. E.
Everding
N.Y. University-
H. Kabatsky, A. Adams,
D. G Gladstone, W.
Namenson and S.
Alpern
MIT-
Weaver
W. Adams, J. Brimberg,
T. Shedlovsky,
H. J. Stark and T. M. Edison
Cornell-
G. Neidich, W. J. Bryan, D. C. Haight, J. J. Singer, C. K. Thomas and L. Samuels
For MIT you will notice the name of T.M. Edison. According to an article in the American Chess Bulletin he joined the team in the third round and he was listed as "Thomas M. Edison", but that name is incorrect. He was actually Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 - November 24, 1992, 94 years old).
Edison only played two games. He started by administering a defeat to William Namenson of New York University, who up to then had a 2-0 score. On the following day Edison lost a hard game against Everding of the Pennsylvania team.
Ted Edison was a businessman, inventor, and environmentalist. He was the fourth son and youngest child of inventor Thomas A. Edison. He was the third child of Edison with his second wife. He was his father's last surviving child and today there are no direct descendants of Thomas A. Edison carrying the family name.
Ted Edison was born at Glenmont, the Edison home in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. He ended his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he earned a physics degree in 1923 and remained there another year to pursue graduate studies.
In 1925, he married Anna Maria (Ann) Osterhout, a graduate of Vassar College.
After graduation, he worked for his father's company, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., starting as a lab assistant. He later founded his own company, Calibron Industries, Inc. and built his own smaller laboratory in West Orange. He earned over 80 patents in his career.
In later years he became an ardent environmentalist and helped preserve Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in southwest Florida. He was also an opponent of the Vietnam War and advocate of Zero Population Growth.
He lived in West Orange, New Jersey and died from Parkinson's disease on November 24, 1992.
Here is is only known game, at least as far as I know. Nothing is known of his opponent, but according to one poster in chessgames.com he was the son of a lawyer who was involved in The Tungsten Light Bulb Scandal of 1908.
While I am not sure exactly what it means even after reading the Chessbase article on Weighted Error Value HERE, the auto-analysis assigned a WEV of 0.33 to white's play which apparently is pretty good. Black's value was 0.68 which appears to be not bad. In any case, Edison seems to have been a pretty decent player.
H.E. Everding (Penn)–Theodore M. Edison (MIT)1–0D02Intercollegiate Chess LeagueMarshall CC, New York29.12.1922Stockfiah 15.1
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense 1.d4 d5 2.f3 f5 3.c4 This is t
unusual Baltic Defense. Because black has difficulties developing his B on c8
he takes this radical approach to the problem by bringing out the B
immediately. It's never been popular, but Paul Keres and Alexei Shirov have
used it on rare occasions. There is virtually no thgeory on it although back
in 1993 Chess Digest published a small book on it. f6 The most popular line
has black playing ...e6 and ...c6, but in practice the text has performed
better. 4.c3 4.cxd5 xd5 5.bd2 b6 6.e4 g6 7.h4 h6 8.d3 8d7 9.a4 a5 10.h5 h7 11.0-0 and white has a significant space advantage and is much
better developed. 4...e6 5.g5 e7 6.b3 This immediate attempt at
taking advantage of the unguarded b-Pawn doesn't accomplish anything so it
should be delayed a bit. 6.xf6 xf6 7.cxd5 exd5 8.b3 Attacking two Ps. c6 Forcing white to tend to the defense of his d-Pawn. 9.e3 Mira,H (2148)
-Schwaninger,U (2045) Oberpullendorf 2002. Black can't defend both Ps so he is
advised to let the b-Pawn go and play 9...Ne7 6...b6 6...dxc4 is correct
and then after 7.xb7 bd7 8.xf6 xf6 9.e3 The chances are equal. 6...dxc4 7.xc4 bd7 8.e3 h6 9.xf6 xf6 10.e2 is also equal. 7.xf6
Well played. xf6 8.cxd5 0-0 8...exd5 9.xd5 xd5 10.xd5 d8 11.e3
White is clearly better. 9.e4 g4 10.e5 Thanks to black's
faulty 6th move whiote has a huge advantage. xf3 This leaves white with a
confusing choice of captures. Which is best? 11.gxf3 or 11.exf6. Or...does he
have another move? 11.dxe6 This yields the advantage to black! 11.exf6
is good for black after xd5 12.c4 xc4 13.xc4 xf6 Black is a sild P
ahead. 11.exf6 xd5 12.xd5 exd5 13.fxg7 e8+ 14.e2 is not very good
for white either. 11.d6 is tricky, but black is OK after xe5 12.dxe5 c6 Better that ...Bb7 because is prevents white from playing Nb5. In this
position black can claim a slight advantage. 11.gxf3 This is the correct
move after which white can claim a significant advantage. h4 12.d1 exd5 13.xd5 White's advantage is nerly decisive. 11...xd4 This results in some
tricky play where both side have chances. 11...c6 12.exf6 xd4 13.e7 d6 14.exf8+ xf8 15.a4 e5+ 16.d2 d8 17.e1 f4+ 18.e3 c6 is winning
for black. 19.d1 xf2+ 20.c1 xe3+ 11...c6 12.exf7+ h8 13.gxf3 xd4 14.d1 xe5 15.d3 f6 16.0-0-0 xf3 Black is much better. 12.exf7+ h8 There was no reason to fear the pin after taking with the R. 12...xf7 13.exf6 e5+ 14.e2 xe2 15.xe2 c6 16.f4 16.fxg7 d4 wins after 17.d3 e8 16...a5+ 17.c3 xc3+ 18.bxc3 In this unbalanced position the
chances would be about equal. 13.exf6 h5 14.fxg7+ xg7 15.e2 d6 15...xe2 would be very bad. After 16.xe2 xf7 17.0-0 White has what should
prove to be a decisive advantage. 16.g3+ xf7 Black would have had better
defensive chances by exchanging Qs. 17.xd6 cxd6 18.0-0-0 e7 19.f3 g6 20.c3 c8 21.b5 a6 22.he1+ f8 23.d3 b5 24.xg6 hxg6 25.b1 c6 26.e6 d5 27.xc6 xc6 28.xd5 There is little doubt that it's only
matter of time before black makes the decision to resign. As Hamlet said, "The
rest is silence." e8 29.d6 b4 30.a3 e1+ 31.d1 xd1+ 32.xd1 KN-KN d3 33.e3 e1 34.a2 a5 35.b3 d3 36.c3 c5 37.d4 a4 38.d1 e7 39.b3 b6 40.c5 d7+ 41.xb5 d6 42.xa5 c6 43.b4 g5 44.e3 b7 45.f5 a7 46.d6 b6 47.e4 c4+ 48.a4 e3 49.g4 c4 50.xg5 b6+ 51.b3 d7 52.h4 b7 53.h5 a7 54.h6 e5 55.h7 g6 56.f7 e7 57.h8 c6 58.g7 b8 59.d8+ Facing mate in 2
Edison finally resigned. 1–0
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