New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-16
DIR. zUKERToRT wlNs'AGAiN.
THIRD GAME IN Tna cHEss CONTEST.

lHlhl' OAhE IN iita CHl.,c CONl Eoi.
sTEINI1Z DECLINES Tag QUEENS GAMBIr-rHs
FIRST PART OF THx GAME IN HIS FAVOR
Each With a game to his credit, Messrs. Stein
z and zukertort yesterday resumed their contest for
the chess championship OF tina world Mt Carriers Hall
No so fifLh-ave.
selnz ambles in FIRST scattering smiles
on everybody in the hail. and shaking hands with those
who have the honorof his acquaintance lie Is the hap
pest looking tn ia the ROOM and but for the deeply
furrowed time SCARED faces OF chess
enthusiasts who crowd the hail. which show his serenity
to be exceptional, would think that there
is something in chessplaylng whchtends to preserve
youthful smootbness OF face. Steintz be
only great chess player who think hard game
without wrnklng his brows Zukerorts face is full of
creases. He comes In few minutes after his rival and
walks the little where the game is TO be played
with quick, tread. hardly noticing anybody ia
the hall Interest in the contest is evidently Increasing
Most OF the people who witnessed the first two
are In the hall, and their number Is sweed by many
new Old chess-players, some OF them famous
a generation ago, scent the battle from afar,
aud hurry to IT. Most conspicuous OF these
IA w. J. A. Fuller with venerable Darwu-like
head Paul Morphy used to fiud more pleasure In beat
ing him than any other He is allowed within the
room where the champions sit and no one begrufges
him the pri,ileg Mrs. Worral probably the best
woman player In the country, who two years ago de-
feaed stentz with the odds OF knight in her favor,
Others present are Eugene Demar. J. NJ Hanham.
Philip Richardson, Leslie Bruce. ALBERT Merriam. Max
Judd and August vorath. Veteran Frederick Perrin,
who enjoys the distinction Of having been often beaten
by Morrhy, is also an interested spectator
Zukeror seats himself opposite the white men. II Is
his turn TO get first move and on Monday he again
selects the Queens gambit for his opening and
stenitz declines It, The preliminary moves are made
rapidly and until the fourth move on either side Is
reached they are the same as those made In
Mondays game. On the forth Zukertort
plays pawn queens rocks third instead Of In the
previous game, knight to queens bishops third. The
queens brought early but the naughty danes do
not advance far into the fray Zukerort pushes his to
queens knights third the sixth move, and SteiniZ
replies by moving his to queens bishops second. On
the eleventh move stenitz castles the kings side
and Zukertort does the thing his thirteenth
move Each then where 10 is hardest for the enemy
to get at him. Like skilful generals neither negecs
his own defences Not until the fourteenth does
the board begin to get cleared. Then pawns are ex
changed and knights In tho following move That allows
more for maEGuyrng steinitz pushes the attack
For long time his objective point is the kings rocks
pawn Zukertort brings all his available pieces to tine
support OF his threatened outpost In vain. The little
fellow is removed from the field on Blacks 31st move.
rules OF the prohibits analyzinR the
game while it is In progress But nearly everybody Is
figuring at aud talking about IT, The buzz OF CONVEX
sation such volume of sound that disturbs
tho players aud even the amlabie steintz looks APP
pealngly at the spectators. while zukertort who is
gagged on knotty problem, frowns. Silence gentle
men,. at length he exclaims In tone more
Of command than entreaty. For the next
rs though az n funeral Some OF the comments curl
"stenitz will win" says one man with some
have lot OF to keep the thinking machinery
going. That means plenty OF stomach: Now, little
mp" To which novel opinion his friend who doesn't be
Iiexe much In analogies replies curly; hum bug
room and little Lukertort 10 full OF both"
IL is evIdeAt that Zukertorts stock has risen. Miss
stenltz sells all she has OF his photographs early In the
day. SIM casual glance up to the time OF adjourn
ment hs game does encouraging aspect. His
pieces packed together ike Kennebec River ice
gorge They are In each others way. stejniu has four
pieces within his lines But the wiry little DOCTOR as he
showed Wednesday. has an eeFlike capacity for
wriggling out OF tight place. Some people remember
OF the hail after the o'clock adjournment When
the battle Is renewed at o'clock ZukertOrt wriggles"
skfuly. extreates himself from his eramped position
and assumes the aggressive. stelnI seems somewhat
hampered by the time limit. When pushed hard he
needs tine than the rules Of the game admit Of to
think out his Neither OF the champions has any
thing like Paul Morphys facility for making rapid calcu
latons say OF the veterans who can boast or
having felt that wizards proves. In the 4Oth move
successive checks SteiniR Is forced backward. Per
haps Morphy might stem the onset, but steintz can
straits he Is and when he says In underone, 81
resign 10 might for aught the spectators could divine
from his expression. be announcing mate" But
resigns" shouts Mr. Paterson In toses heard
all over the hail. There IL slight. almost
nvount ary outbreak OF hand-cappng but IL Is imme
diatey checked The game was finished at 925 o'clock
The victory sends Zukertorts stock above par. The
courage OF the In selecting the opening which
comment The score stands: Zukertort two games
won, SteintZ one. The next game will be played on
Monday at No. 80 Fifth-aye beginning At o'clock
THE MOVES WITH COMMENTS BY CAPTAIN MAC