New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-25
THE CHESS MATCH ENDED
pELMAR WINS FIVE GAMES OUT OF EIGHT.
THE ssrAATs-zErTUNea CUP AND THE HAspr-
CAP PRIZE BOTH GO TO HANHAM-MR.
srEINITz PLAYS TWO GAMES
BLINDFoLDED.
DY W. sTEINITz.

skaneateles N. Y, July 24.-Delmsr won the sew
enth and eighth games to-day. and therefore the apo
ute majority Of the contest, which was Imeo 10 h'e
games for this match The score $50 % D. i"s 'io
tory will add very high credit TO his adeany
record Theoretically. limited contest Is ai' u'.,i
tain test of strength, but for pracnoa Purpo'es Wv
esut In This case must be accepted as PROOF OF DEL
mars superiority, at least for the present. "
a frank and handsome manner seemeu u aNnS =,
and he said when questioned u paseu wo'ee "
tina games which won in this match 'ian ~ W..
that lost in the sixth American Chess Congress
| must be glad o. opportunity even Oh ios'ne
match. for am entirely out OF "n' WY u e'''
tce all the year round" ,.,,.uuo
Hanham has won the "Staatz-Zeituhs chanois0
cup on behalf Of the Manhattan Chess Oiao' ~ SP-
did performance considering also nus ehsasehieHV ~
success hitherto in the handicap. lie had noV e,."
finished his first round when ne met hehieh' ~..
morning for no had an adjourned game to finish asan
,yO.ns M, AZ n. had lost only one game up to tnat
,,mc while Kemeny's possible maximum was ALREADY
a.,aad with one ond a half games, II was thougn'
nat uanbau was most likely TO win the cup IL ne
could beat Kemeny, though the former had tniSo o
games 10 May while Kcmeny had finished all MS k0'
Hanham won pawn carry ny Wv ~,
manoeuyre as second player, In Pnndors Dcieh0o AZ
a peculiar variation OF his own, anu Tic
80 ~. game in thirty-fve moves He then finished
,he adionrned game against Hodges, which endea III
a draw and next effected an elegant victory asaHis'
the same opponent. In his last game against Di"oA
mar he had only TO draw IN order 10 VIII "io e"p'
Tournament experience has often shown 'ha' !. -
generally easy for strong player to enec' 'u'n !"
result when systematically aiming at It, Ne'uraip ''s
WAS the case in the present instance ano d. iiA''
cnnsnad himself to doing little or nothlhg'
,o.i,ion WAS soon arrived at which was ~
eoual that after its adjournment Kencny' "ho' a.
the most Interested party in the matter was eVt
10 give an opinion whether the game Sho"'e p'Voo
declared IL to be fair draw. Hanham Is the iapps
possessor of the cup for the year. ana nc 10 SUN l"
race for the chief prize in the hanuicsp. -..
On account Of his Official duties as honorary sccE0
pocrs S,s not play in the second round and for
feited all his games. A.,
Hopham has lust defeated shotwel and won the
handicap. -, ,us
Mp sten,tx played two games simultaneously blind
folded against two competitors IN uie cnaiic"so cup
tournament A. B, Hodges and A. f. BlacKmar' ms
performer won both within seventy'nVe minutes. Ine
game AGAINST Hodges terminated with brilliant sacr-
fee Of the Queen.
Following will be found a detailed account
~ the Afth and sixth games between Demar
and Pollock which were played yesterday Inc
6ftb game opened with a dull variation OF the
Four Knights game. On the tenth move oeIha'
effected an unfavorable exchange Of Bishop for
Knight and the following move was stu worse lot ne
exposed himself to the loss of Pawn by II H.
followed by Or 5, which line of play, however, Pol
lock also overlooked. An exchange of Queens soon
ensued, Of which, usual, a long ending was the
ISSUE Pollock had slight advantage with MS t"O
Bishops which he could have further materiazed on
the twenty eighth move by exchanging the kt ana inc
centre Pawn followed by RQ Kt A, since the adverse
centre was practically cut of from the support Oh
Blacks King, and could also be easily broken by tle
advance of Whites Q p AS matters proceeded
Bishops of opposite oolors left on the board and
either party could easily produce drawish position
aiming at it. But neither seemed 10 be content vain
such result and Pollock especially endeavored TO press
all attack by lberatng an Isolated +. The pur-
suance Of this plan cost him, however, two Pawns
Oh the Kings side, and Delmar was left with two
combined passed Pawns, whose advance could no
doubt be hampered for some time, but which
could be surely worked up in the end. On the forty
sixth move Delmar neglected TO his Rock In the
rear of the advancing adverse Pawn which would nave
saved him great deal Of trouble. In a similar man
her he omitted several times 70 place his Bishop oi
So, which would have stopped the Pawn and Ie1i
him freedom for operations with his Rock and Pawns
lie instead made useless manoeuvre against Pol
locks King, and finally tie sixty sixth move he al
lowed himself 10 be caught in drastic manner having
ncedlessly run into position which exposed him 10
mate In a few moves the only other alternative
allowed Pollock the queening of his Pawn. on per
ccvng his too late after the check of the ROoh
given by Pollock at the siXty-seventh move in the
dIagramned position below, Delmar resigned.
DELMAR- POLLOCK MATCII-FIFTH GAME.