The 1945 Soviet-American Radio Match
| Born in New York on December 9, 1905, Santasiere won the championship of the Marshall Chess Club at the age of 17. After that he won the title three more times, won the New York State Championship several times, and divided first prize with Shainswit in the 1943 Ventnor City Tourney. He annexed the U. S. Open Title at Peoria, 1945. |
| Santasiere
was a school teacher, an accomplished pianist, a dabbler in painting and
poetry, and a first-rate chef. He was the only bachelor on the Soviet-American
team and lived in the Bronx, New York. He died in Hollywood, Florida, on
January 13, 1977.
Cf. Chess Review, August-September
1945, from the
Clippings in Paul Little's Chess Scrapbooks (Box I, v.1. ) |
