New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-23
THE STATE CHESS MEETING.
pE1MAR AND POLLOCK EACH WIN A GAME.
xEMEyY STILL LEADS IN THE STATS EEL
ruNG'' CUP CoNTEsTs--A NEW PLAYER
ENTERS THE HANDICAP.
BY W. sTEINITz.

Skanedpclcs,
the meeting Of the New York state Chess Associson'
In the great match Pollock and Delmar each won
game Their play, Of course attracts the most atten
tion but the other contests interesting ana wen
nlayed Kemeny is in the lead for the staats'Iet
tung' cup but the handicap games arc not narrowed
down close enough yet 10 say who viii be IN the HUI
pool. A..
Never before within my recollection was tnero
such surprise effected in the first two moves Oh Oh
openinR as in the third game Of the DelmarPof
lock matches played yesterday. In reply 10 'he
irregular l PIX 4, Demar, as second plaSe''
offered to give up a pawn py
which constitutes a gambit named af'er us hVehOo'
the Danish player Herr From. POLLOCK oiu noo sliow
himself to be outbldden IN chvalry, ana Dy MS ao"o.
. PIX 4, a regular Kings gainbit postlon' WHICH -
OF the rarest occurrence In match playing was pre-
senf1d 10 the astOr'ehed onlooers VINO were Wohder
ing which OF the L tudinous varieties OF ibis prlif
ant openne would be the sequence. Delmar CUT speo
ulatlon short by declaring the garnor WIN I'D
-b A. The usual course Of this form OF the ope.iIs
was altered on Blacks fourth move NJ
O. after which the developing process refnained
slightly in favor OF White, untu Deihar' on 'Io
eleventh move allowed his opponent 10 lsoaee anu
double the O p IN position which has been called
Wnawer's trade mark after tho celebrated Russian
master who had first shown In the Pans congress VI
1867 how to operate against this weakness Al Hhureo
situations.
some lively diminishing for attack and defence foi
lowed up to the twentieth move Then came SUin IN
indifferent rnanoeuvrine on Pollocks part while Del
mar after some attacking attempts on the KING sioe
properly directed his attention toward dlsSoVns "e
double p which was the sole point OF his game aiu
the only hndrance TO his forming strong centre anu
obtaining the advantage on the Queens wing fono'A
could early have prevented the execution OF such
plan at an early stage by manoeuvr1ng one OF nus
knights TO O or Q KIT 8, and then sezing the
n nfh
neglected 10 guard that point The Queens side lie
clustered his pieces instead the Kings sde thus
giving his opponent opportunity 10 oreah u On .0
other wing On the twenty fourth move POLLOCK
defence became extremely difficult and his blocked up
Rock at X. Kt was made the work Of finely con
ceved attack by the advance OF the ADVERSE I'D =
which ultimately lost Pollock the exchange
After having thus obtained decisive superiority
OF material Delmnrs attention began however, 10
relapse and there little Of his usual vigorous a
in his play. He neglected for a series OF moves u
seize the key OF the adverse position, by the capture
of the B P, which would soon have opened for MN
A powerful attack Pollock fought the uphill BATTLE
with tenacity and ingenuity OF resource Having
removed the exchange, owing to the opponents weak
play he made a stubborn defence for long tne,
but ultimately he sacrificed pawn on the queens
side in order to tempt his opponent TO exchange
Bishops and then to institute an attack with his HOOK
at K r g. which was very difficult to parry. Delmar
incautiOusly erected the e1change vi bisoPS, "Hu
then selected defence with his Rock at r d. which
allowed his opponent to spring mine on the forty
eighth move by the advance Of the X p the very
pawn whose capturer he had previously neglected for
A long time though he had several favorable oppor
tuntes for getting rid Of IT, Blacks game then broke
mn in a few moves and Delmar resigned after SIX
hours playing.
In the Stats Zeitung" challenge cup tournament
Kcmery Sor game against Hodges, but his clean score
ol,.t,, % 1v N
against him. However, Kemeny remains the leader
absolutely for the round, having only drawn one
game. while the other competitors have already each
lost one game between Black1nar and Rogers, IN
the same tournament, ended in favor OF the former
and another, between Hanham and Hodges, was left
unfinished.
In the handicap tournament the name OF
the Rev. s. K. Calthrop, the weu-known
scientist Of Syracuse entered for the first class
the chief events OF the day were that Hanham was
beaten by Burlingame who, however, lost his games
against Caltrop and Congdon. Fanhan stu leads
in that class with four and onehaf games won, and
Young Stands second with three and one-haf. In
the second class D. F. Scarf leads the list with four
games won and none lost, while D. W. Waller stands
close to him, having won four games and lost one.
In the third Glass; shotwe leads with clear score oil
five games won, followed by J. Z. Muller, who won
three and lost two.
Pollock lost the fourth in twenty three moves
after two and one-hah hours play. The hfth game
was won by Pollock in sixtyelght moves The score
now stands Pollock three, Delmar two.
MATCH DELMAR-PoLLoCK, THIRD GAME.