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[[File:Julius Finn.jpg|thumb|180px|Julius Finn]]
'''Julius Finn''' (28 April 1871 – 6 December 1931) was an American [[chess]] master.

Born into a Jewish family in [[Kudirkos Naumiestis|Władysławow]], [[Lithuania]] (then [[Russian partition|Russia]]), he came to [[New York City]] in 1887. From a humble start as a street peddler on the [[Lower East Side]], Finn swiftly rose to become New York's champion chess master and one of the country's best blindfold chess entertainers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4283-6 |title=McFarland - Publisher of Academic Nonfiction, and Serious Books about Pop Culture |access-date=2008-12-30 |archive-date=2012-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521013947/http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4283-6 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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 [[William Ewart Napier]], [[Hermann Helms]], and many other well-known players from the local American scene. In July 1897, Finn led a consultation team to victory against the veteran [[Wilhelm Steinitz]] in the rooms of the Metropolitan Chess Club.

He won thrice the New York State Championship (1901, 1907, 1908),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sicherman.net/chess/nyschamps.html |title=New York State Chess Champions 1878–1972 |access-date=2023-04-20 }}</ref> and won the [[Rice Gambit]] tournament at the [[Manhattan Chess Club]] in 1903.<ref>https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/07/26/105056138.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> Finn did engage in two interesting cable games. One with a Cuban team led by [[José Raúl Capablanca]] 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 [[Emil Schallopp]].

Mr. Finn acted as referee at the [[World Chess Championship 1921]] which was played between [[Emanuel Lasker]] and José Raúl Capablanca in Havana. He was one of the organizers of the [[New York 1924 chess tournament]] 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.<ref>http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles254.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

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