Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-31

| American chess congress of 1889 must be
/ placed. Some comparison with these great
contests is therefore necessary to a proper
| appreciation of the magnitude of the tour
nament Of 1895.
At London, in 1883. Austro-Hungary,
| England, France, United States and Rus
STA were represented by these fourteen
| contestants:
| Austro- Hungary Eneiisch and Noa.
| England-Brd, Biackburne, Mason, Nor
| timer SiSipworth Steinfz and ZEhertort
| France-RosenthaL United States-Mack-
| TSchigorin.
| At New York. in 1850, Austria, Canada,
| England, France. United States and Rus
| STA were represented by the following
] twenty:
| Austria-Weiss. Canada-NIacLeod Eng
| land-Bird. Blackburne. Burn. Gossip
| Gunsberg. Mason. Pollock. France--Tauben-
| haus. United States-D. G. Baird. J. W.
| Baird, Burile. Delmar. Hanham, Judd,
Martinez, Lirschutz. showaiter. Russia
| Tschigorin. --..-f-
| England, France, Germany, Italy. United
| States aud Russia are represented by these
| twenty-five players:
Austria-Marco. Schlechter. Canada-Pol-
| Gunsberg. I.asker. Mason. Teichmann,
| Tinsley. France-Janowsld. Germany-Bar-
! deleben. Meses Tarrasch. Walbrodt.
| ltaly-Fergani. United States-Albin, Pills
| bury, Steinitz. Russia-Schiffers, Tschi-
| gorin.
| Only a glance at these three lists will be
| required to discover how much more i'm
| portant the Hastings tournament is than
| We're the other two.
| Gratest Quartet of Experts.
| With the exception of Winawer, Schollop.
| Weiss and Makovitz in Europe, and pos
! sibly as many more here. Hastings has
| gathered together to it's battles all the ac-
pf he
| world. No tournament ever before pre-
sented famous a Quartet as Steinitz,
| Tschigorin, Tarrasch and Lasker; nor,
| since Morphys time, great native
| American player as Pillsbury. Except, per
| haps. the Italian. Nergani, all the other
players are masters of well-recogniZed
| ability, and selected such from a list
| of thirtyeieht offered entries. all of whom
| We're competent to play under the rules,
! the exclusion of sixteen of that number
| so as to keep the tournament within limit
being most unenviable duty of the COM
| mittee
OF the famous quartet before mentioned,
OF the great tournament. Tschigorin is the
most imaginative player Tarrasch the
most classical. Steinftz the most profound
and Lasker the most business like.
Rise of PiIlsbury.
The surprise and the delight to Ameri-
cans of the tournament is the playing OF
their talented young countryman, Harry
Nelson Pillsbury, who was born at Somer-
Vile, Mass, in 1872. and fitted for Harvard
at the Somerville High School. In 1855 he
learned the moves at chess, and being COM
| PEELED to postpone his plan of entering
| Harvard, quickly developed his talent for
the game. Since 1893 MIR. Pillsbury has
been chiefly identified with the Brooklyn
Chess Club. and represents it at Hastings.
In person he is of medium height, with an
Intellectual head and clear-cut, classic
! features
Probably no one in the United States, with
fhn ton 81 As,,,&-
] openings well he does, and the prin-
| ciples on which they are based. His style
| is painstaking and solid, and he may al
ways be depended on not to lose his game
for the sake of false brilliance that ends
| in defeat. His position judgment is unsur-
passed, and his analysis Steinitz places
above his own.
The Tournament.
Hastings is admirably adapted for sum-
| mer tournament. The hall contains eleven
| chess tables, across which the twenty-five
| masters do battle. Each days struggles
| are full of interest and excitement, even to
| the casual looker-on if he understands any,
| thing of chess.
Play at Hastings commenced on the 9th
| of August, each player having to contest
one game with every other. The twenty
one rounds of eleven games each are play
| ed on Mondays. Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays, the concluding
round being played on September 2 when
| III all games Will nave Deen contested.
Each play day commences at pm. and
continues till o'clock. when an intermis-
| sion Is taken: At Z pm. play recommences,
| and at 10 o'clock is concluded.
This gives seven hours for each game,
and If any of them are unfinished at the
| expiration of the play day. adjournment is
| had to what is called the bye day" for the
completion of all such games. Thursdays
are set apart as bye days and they, with
Sundays, afford practically two days of
| rest in each week to the player.
During the progress Of the games each
contestant is allowed two hours in which
| to make his first thirty moves After this
one hour additional Is allowed for every
record the time at each board; and already
| three games have been forfeited by players
] for overstretching their time limit. The
| pairing TO- the whole twenty-one rounds
was made on what is known as the Berger
| system. Twenty-one separate slips. each
| containing complete pairing of the twen-
ty-two players for one days play, were pre-
pared and shuff1ed together. and just be-
| fore 1 o'clock Of each play day one of
these slips is drawn by chance and the
pairing for that day announced therefrom.
Methods of Play.
About twenty well-known chess openings
and defenses have already been made use
of by the players, of which the queens
gambit declined. the Ruy Lopez and the
French defense have furnished the lines
upon which more than half the games
played have been fought. Other openings
| favored are the Giuoco piano, the four
knights game, the Vienna game, the Scotch
| gambit. the Evans eambit the queens
[ gambit, irregular and Ponzianna. The de-
| feDses, other than the French defense. re-
| lied on the two knights Petroff'S,
| Sicilian and Philidors.
For the most part the games are con-
Quoted in accordance with the more mod