New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-06
WITH QUEENS AND ROCKS.
pIJJ,sRIJRY NOT MAKING CLAIMS TO THE
WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP.
,e,,rp READY TO MEET ALL coMERs-NoTE
FROM THE HOME cLuBs-PRobLT"'
AND CORRESPONDENCE

,,srrp READY TO MEET ALL CoMERS-NoiE'
FROM THE HOME cLuBs-PRoBLEMS
AND CORRESPONDENCE.
H. n. Pilsbury gave the following
a reporter of The Tribune yesterday ..,o so,.
,uou mo n EXPRESS my thanks to those VINO sem
kind letters and cable messages to me In Eng h6ne
and tsegEamf and os Sih my then at
Hastings by careful preparation anu and club
P wbds represenave was ana hope with ad s,
kno Wedge as the result OF that coraa; haupness
to me Chiefly because II seemed to prove s ARA
Americans can Play chess e. ana haar nfea "'' ~
- The hundreds Of congratulations receyed rom N
my fellow -countrymen- OF them hr9nrnans viii
regard chess as an issue worthy 70 be joined e De
Amsre9 and EHrGRs nnS T
for supremacy now likely to ensue WIN n5nrscIaton
bob,nd them. the native American chess masters
viii not be found lacking when the night Is on NV
Permit me TO add personal word aS ~ lily
/ do not claim to be champion OF anything:
" n,ii stand anon: but | DO not make claims OF any
kind for myself SO also with the making OF boast
those OF any Of the other chess masters Wish
distinctly to say that have never made any suSh
COMPARISONS and do not consider them either mod,,
est or gentlemany. When a match is contes,edd
the result VIII de- al IN sacp Bart of the sport
then decidedly | prefer to crow after rather thah
I have been much urged, particularly since my re-
to go to st. Petersburg and II Is si i de
rightly leave 1t, shall stay mere ana 90 VIVA. l
m nan TO in "r kme e at ttns il be
spared from my work here s9aii nope 10 com 1a
pete In December In Russia. few days VIII de-
termine this.
LAsKER TALKS FREELY
A two and a half column interview with Lasker
is being printed in 2 great many German and
German American newspapers.
In reply to a question why he did not win the
first prize he Is quoted having said Il don't like
to make excuses l only wish to make 1t known
that suffered from exhaustion. This was proved
by the fact that l threw away games which L
ought to have won like the with Tarrasch,
or like the one with Albin or Mason, two games
which drew when l had dead sure games Ii
was not my brain power, but my nerves being weak
made commit grave plumbers, thing Which
very rarely happens to me
Yes, you are quite right, II was too much WORK
to play for four weeks. five times week. But
what the committee to do. There were thirty
nine candidates and 1t was a very difhcult task
to reduce this number to twenty-five let alone less
"Pillsburys achievement" Lasker said In reply
to a question whether the papers were right, COM
pairing this player with Morphy was doubtless very
| brilliant and at the same time very much sur
prising but 1t seems too soon 10 give positive
| opinion about him. Such contest (meaning the
| Hastings affair equals chess obstacle race Not
the quality or the contestants Dut the stSIe Oh eiei
| has to be considered.
"Or course. I shall play a match with Pillsbury
| or anybody who would challenge me for the cham
pionship OF world. There is certainly a chance.
| as the Hastings Chess Club has approached me
| sem!-oficialy the subject. They want me to
play with either Tschlgorn or Pilsbury, and as the
| former would scarcely be able to get away from
Russla-the match must be played In England
| fancy there Is good chance OF match between
myself Pillsbury. provided the latter gets back
| ing TO the amount of 5000.
"A high amount of money for the stakes Is neces-
| sary in order to act as preventive from recev-
| ing too many challenges. fancy the Hastings.
London and Liverpool clubs would be s wiling to put
| II don't play in German tournaments because OF
play nine games week at the rate OF twenty moves
| hour. Moreover. the slnalness OF the prizes
psysTs ' would not enter They ought
fewer tournaments instead OF so many which could
| hardly be called international affairs" 49,
self a representative OF England instead OF Ger
na9 ~ sourtesy In have BEEN
always lighting somebody. my teachers at school,
Tarrasch announces in his chess column in a
Frankfort paper that he might not be competitor
at the st. peteT5ou TS rbane M follows
sir: 1t is quite possible that may only have,
Ras % whom m
cally remarked that he had great future behind
n admirable r sS" on Mr. psbury
| Achievement at Hastings that 'Tschigorin. Lasker
| and Tarrasch still alive, beg leave to remind
! YOU that | am not dead yet either that moreover
| / am the only legitimate holder OF the champion
title de lure at least. and that am DESTROYS or de-
Tending It de facto against either Mr. Lasker or Mr.
| Pi.sbury whichever may be chosen for the pur-
| more Yours truly W. STEINITZ.
| London Sept. 3d. 1885
| In another letter Ste!nItz calls the attention OF
| The Tribune TO the following paragraph from Ihe
| London Daily News:
The young hero OF Hastings sailed for New-Yor
| per the American liner New-York. from Southamp-
ton on Saturday Great things are m store for him
on his arrival in the States, and II is more than
doubtful that the OF events there VIII admit
| OF his sailing again for Europe In such a short time
| as November We quite believe that instead OF
| allowing Psbury to go TO Russia an effort viii
be made In the States to arrange contest between
| him and Mr. Steinitz for the coming winter. Such
a match would he followed with the greatest inter
est throughout the world. and would clear the way
| for second contest between Lasker or any one
else who should dispute the championship with
| the winner
NOTES ABOUT LOCAL. MATTERS
Three months play In the continuous ticket tour
| nament OF the Brooklyn Chess Club. July. August
and September resulted In the three prizes going TO
| A. J. Souwene ]. Morphy and V. q. Wicke Helms
and Taturn who stood third and fourth in the per-
centages failed qualify. not having Played with
enough different opponents. The special prize for
| the highest number OF games captured by
| DR.. J. II. Taber.
| Scores OF the leading percentages are appended: