James Allan Anderson (chess player)

James Allan Anderson was an American chess player.

Biography

James Allan Anderson was a three-time St. Louis Chess Champion who defeated Alexander Alekhine in a simultaneous exhibition in 1929. He finished second in the 1929 Western Chess Association Championship.
James Allan Anderson played for United States in the Chess Olympiad:

In 1930, at reserve board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg.

Anderson finished fourth at the 1931 Western Chess Association Championship in Tulsa and won the St. Louis championship in 1932 with 8½ from 9, before disappearing from the chess world at the age of 26.
Anderson died in Antioch, California, and is buried at Oak View Memorial Park in that city.