ADetroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Wednesday, February 12, 1964 - Page 36
“After watching national chess champion Bobby Fischer in action, Newell Banks, at 76 still the national blindfold checker champion and no slouch at chess, rated Jose Capablanca, Paul Morphy and Alexander Alekhine the three greatest chess players of all…
At the Manhattan Chess Club in 1913 he witnessed what he still believes to be the most virtuoso performance of all time. Capablanca and David Jankowski, the French champion, went at each other in rapid transit chess—a move required every three seconds. Making moves with both hands and setting up the board in between, the men played 41 games in 43 minutes…with Capablanca winning them all. The longest game took only 72 seconds.
