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From SHADOWS, a publication by inmates of Oregon State Penitentiary, April 1936.  Thanks to Russell Miller for this contribution!

"ACE" Gurton is calling Joe Silver an "old meanie" these days on account of a chess game. Ace and Joe occupy adjoining cells in the new cell block and while away the hours by playing chess. Each has his own board and chess men and moves are indicated orally from cell to cell. For the past month Ace has had the best of the play, which has not pleased Joe one bit, and it is said that Joe accused Ace of having his chess men marked, which accounted for his success. During the past few  days, however, the occupants of nearby cells have not heard the familiar, "Knight to King's Bishop four" etc., etc., ad nauseum, because Ace and Joe  have had a falling out.

Information from authoritative sources indicates that some two weeks ago, Joe read of a certain chess expert asphyxiating his opponent with vile-smelling cigar smoke, thereby winning an important match. Joe, having no cigars and scarcely enough "weed" to be squandering any on smoke screens, even if he could get the smoke into Ace's cell, began to think with his brain, and when Joe begins to think with his brain things start popping.

It is said by reliable persons that one day last week, Joe, while  frequenting his usual haunts about the incinerator, picked up and pocketed a small pill-box which had been dumped from the hospital garbage can, and walked off with a self-satisfied grin on his countenance.

A day or so later Joe called to Ace and wanted to play a game of chess; but Ace complained of a headache and wished to be excused. Joe, being solicitous, offered him some good headache pills, which were accepted
together with the instructions to take two pills immediately and two more before retiring, but Ace, in the hope of gaining relief sooner, took four pills at once. Apparently he got relief for a few minutes later when Joe again
challenged him for a game he accepted. The boards were brought out and play began. It was very strange, indeed, but that night Joe beat Ace three straight games in less than an hour, and Joe had won only two games during all the past month. Ace evidently did not like this, as he threw his chess men and board over the tier, and since then has not spoken to Joe.

On the following day Ace was seen in conversation with the doctor, and on concluding the interview was heard to mutter something about putting so and so on the spot for giving him goof-balls, which made him so drowsy he didn't know what moves he was making during those three games.

Truly a game of wits, this chess.

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