i Tale of Contents

ii, iii Introduction

SECTION I: ANTECEDENTS AND QUALIFYING EVENTS

Chapter 1

01 "The Mystery of Chess": An Historical Introduction to New York 1936

Chapter 2

24 Changing the Guard: United States Chess in the Early 1930s

Chapter 3

63 The Preliminaries

Chapter 4

86 Fred Reinfeld Handicaps the Championship

SECTION II: NEW YORK 1936: THE FINALS

93-187 Round 1 to 15

196 Crosstable

197 Index of Openings

199 Index of Players