The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-27
CHESS TOURNAMENT.
The Annual Inter- Collegiate Game Be.
gins Today.
But Three Colleges VIII Participate in the
Contest and Each Will Play
Twelve Games.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-[Special. THE
inter collegiate chess tournament for the
challenge cup begins at Columbia Uni
versity tomorrow. 1t is the first of
series of annual tournaments and has
attracted widespread attention. On
SEPT. 1, 1892, the graduates of the great
colleges OF the country presented this
trophy to the colleges. Until 1895 the
contest for the cup is limited to Harvard,
Princeton, Yale and Columbia After
that all the other colleges may compete
by the unanimous consent of the colleges.
The cup must be competed for in annual
tournaments, which must be publicly
held in the city during winter vacation.
In all cases at least one representative
must be an undergraduate; no player can
compete in more than five tournaments.
The deed states that if the cup should re-
main with any one club for ten consecu-
tive years, with or without challenge, it
shall become the property of the college
which won it last.
This year four colleges viii compete,
namely, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard
and Yale Each college will be repre-
scented by two players, each of whom has
to play one game with each other repre-
sentative, which makes six games to be
played by each player. or twelve by each
college. The rules governing the con-
test are those laid down in Staunton'
Chess PraXis and in the code of the Fifth
American chess congress. Some special
rules are added by the donors. The time
limit is fifteen moves an Lour, Drawn
games count half point for each player.
The hours for play are from p. m. to
midnight. Games not finished by IL
O'Clock will be adjudicated by the UNI
pire. Samuel Lloyd will probably serve
in this latter capacity.
The tournament will begin tomorrow,
and is to last until Monday, Jan. 2. At
O'Clock in the afternoon the teams will
assemble. President Seth Low, or, in
his absence, George l.. Rivers, will pre-
side. Councey NJ. Depew will deliver the
presentation speech, which will be re-
sponded to by one of the colleges. Then
play begins according to the following
schedule:
Observation-Disclosures (Hymes) VS..
Harvard (Goldmark); Yale Bun
stead VS.. Princeton (Dickie): Columbia
(Stubbs) VS.. Princeton Ewing; Yale
(Skinner) VS.. Harvard (MacKaye).
Wednesday = Columbia (Hymes) VS..
Yale (Bunstead); Princeton (Dickie)
VS.. Harvard (Goldmark); Columbia
(Stubbs) vs.. Harvard (IacKaye); Yale
(Skinner) VS.. Princeton (Ewing)
Thursday Columbia (Hymes) VS..
Princeton (Dickie); Yale (Bunstead)
VS.. Harvard (Goldmark); Columbia
(Stubbs) VS.. Yale Skinner; Princeton
Ewing VS.. Harvard (MacKaye).
Friday-Harvard (MacKaye) VS..
Columbia (Hymes); Harvard Gold
mark VS.. Columbia (Stubbs); Princeton
(Ewing) VS.. Yale (Bunstead); Princeton
(Dickie) VS.. Yale (Skinner).
Saturday-Yale (Skinner) vs.. Col
umbia (Hymes); Harvard (Goldmark)
VS.. Princeton Giving; Yale (Bunstead)
VS.. Columbia (stubbs); Harvard (Mac-
Kaye VS.. Princeton (Dickie).
Monday - Princeton (Ewing) VS..
Columbia (Hymes); Harvard (Goldmark)
VS.. Yale (Shinner)i Harvard (Mackaye)
VS.. Yale (Bunstead); Princeton (Dickie)
VS.. Columbia (Stubbs).
The first named colleges have invariably
the first move. Each member of the win
ming team will receive a silver medal in
commemoration OF the tournament, the
date and his name being inscribed there
on. In England inter-university matches
are standing feature of college life and
rank in Importance only second to boat
races and football games.
The cup and medals will be presented in
one of the rooms of Columbia college on
theIlast day of thetournament. Gate re-
ceipts are provided for to cover expenses.