New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-08
CHESS AND FESTIVITY.
FINE PLAY AND MUCH HILARITY AT
LEIPSIC.
THE MASTERS SOMEWHAT SLOW IN GETTING
DOWN TO BUSINESS AFTER THEIR EN-
TERTAINMENT - TARRAsCH DEFEATS
wALBRoDT AGAIN-RECoRD OF
THE SEVENTH ROUND.

THE SEVENTH ROUND.
Leipsic Sept I cspecaD.-After the conclusion Of
the sixth round OF the international chess mas
ter's tournament, played yesterday evening. there
grand "Fest-Commers' at the Europaiscner
Hof in honor of the competitors. 1t is needless TO
say that affair a complete success. and
many humorous speeches. little poems. etc. were
well received. OF there lot OF drinks.
too. mostly Bavarian lager beer, and play in the
seventh round Of the tournament, which was sched-
uled for this morning at o'clock. was somewhat
slow in consequence OF .ast nights festival. The
players had to swords as follows
Seuffert against Mieses. Tarrasch against Wal
brodt Janowsky against Weydlich, Blackburnc
against Scheve Baird against Techmann, Schfers
against Zinkl, Marco against Berger, Lipke against
Schlechter and Suechting against Mason.
OF these games ony four were finished. While the
remaining five games had to be adjourned at l
O'Clock. to be resumed some other day
AS may be readily imagined the board on which
Tarrasch and Walbrodt engaged attracted
the greatest attention OF the spectators The doc
tor opened with Kings Knights Gambt which
Walbrodt did not accept AS in the match games be-
tween these experts at Nuremberg the doctor man.
aged to accumulate little advantages. and playing
subsequently correctly and clevery. Walbrodt had
again To acknowledge defeat, which came AFTER
thlrty-eight moves Thus the champion has Kept a
clean score-seven rounds, with TWO auJouiHeu
games to finish. however.
Marcos and Bergers lighting tempo in a French
Defence created a little sensation. for when most
players were about TO settle down for good the
announcement came that these competitors had
agreed upon a draw, after only thirteen moves nal
been registered on the scoring sheet
Moses who conducted a Double Fianchetto
against Seuffert scored his first win in this tour
nanent against Seuffert. The latter did we'll for
abou, s,xteen moves. when he seriously compro-
missed his position, and after I'VE additlohal Ho'es
he had to give up the fight
Janowsky easily accounted for Weydlich who fell
hack upon the French game as his defence Inc
PARTISAN played spirited game. and at first Weyd-
Itch got along all right. When eighteen moves mad
boen recorded the latter lost ground. while Janow-
skv began to press his adversary repeatedly Al
last Blacks position became hopeless ana Jaho"-
sky scored after thirty-one moves
The other games namely Blackburne against
Scheve "a stubbornly contested Vienna opened oy
the former Baird against Teichmann Ia spanish
game. which the latter defended with 3 P-Q
r -: Schiners against Iinkl "a French Detehce'
plaved by the latter: Lpke against Schlechter "a
Vienna opening. which became highly in'eres.ins,,
and Suechting against Mason "a lily tuS aope" Kt"
the Anglo American defended with nv
Il 3D. stood adjourned -. o,.h,,, 30 ,be
games LEFT unfinished in previous rounds. Here are
the details of these games; a., vr,hrod, and
Mason was beaten by Weydlich NaIDrout an
Suech,ing after -, 60 and 40 moves resPec. 70
the openings being irregular. Ruy Lopez ana r'"'
Lopez ~ e,.r,o, ca,,e after
siytv-six moves and Suechting. in Vienna game
after seventy-two moves. by superior tacucs III '"'
Janowsky. who defended a Ruy Lopez e., wiz i, y
P-l 3 against Znkl, scored aiter io''S -''N
moves by fine play throughout the game. .,, M
Tarrasch beat Weydlich in an Evans uai'o'o - 20
clined after fifty moves In consequence "a
thunder on the part OF the loser: p,,o altar
finke also beat Mason In Giuoco fiano a. ~ q
afty-two moves the winner getting the Vsst 90
zane after about twenty-six moves. 1 Who
rad also TO resign Vienna game 10 LiPAe' WI"
Won hy a brilliant move in the end game, of,er
Te,chmann beat Baird in Ruy Lopez al'e'
The games Tarrasch against Znkl ZinKi asanSs
a%ainst Zinkl could not be finished TO-DAY, anu
ain have 10 be resumed Tuesday attetn i 40,
Appended is the score oil all 'ne o0"''e
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