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25: 108: 145:, Finn swiftly rose to become New York's champion chess master and one of the country's best blindfold chess entertainers. Finn's first tournament in America was a Handicap Tournament played in New York's Café Boulevard in 1895 where he was ranked as a 2nd class player at the beginning of the competition. As it happened, he took home the 1st prize ahead of 191:
and the president of the 1927 New York Tournament. He also served as adjudicator for the college chess league with which Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton were affiliated. He had been a member of the Manhattan Chess Club and Rutgers Club for many years.
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in 1903 and the other was the New York – Berlin Cable Match from 1905 where he played on the third board for New York, drawing his game with
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in 1903. Finn did engage in two interesting cable games. One with a Cuban team led by
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He won thrice the New York State Championship (1901, 1907, 1908), and won the
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and José Raúl Capablanca in Havana. He was one of the organizers of the
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in 1887. From a humble start as a street peddler on the
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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