The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-14
THE EVENING TINES WASHINGTON JANUARY A 1898
One OF The KINGS OF CHESS
Jackson w. Showalter a Guest Of
the Washington Club.
VIII Meet All Corners Tonight i'm
Simultaneous Game-The WORKS
Championship Contest.

Mr.. jackson w. Showalter, the well
known chess expert of Georgetown, KY,
hsa arrived in this city and last evening
was the CUES. OF the Washington Chess and
Checker Club.
Mr.. Showalter came East to play Harry
Pillsbury, of the Brooklyn Chess Club, for
the championship of the United states and
the winner will match Herr Emanuel Lasker,
of Germany, for the championship OF the
world. Mr.. Pilisbury viii BE- re membered by
devotees of chess In this city as the coacn
of the Congressman who played in the in
ternationai cable chess match with the
team OF the British House OF Commons.
The game will be played February in
New York, probably before the Hamilton
Club, but this has not yet been settled.
The match is for 81 900 side, and the
man winning seven games first VIII be tie
clared champion. Mr. Showalter is in good
trim and expects to give the present
champion close run for his money.
Mr.. Showalter came to Washington at
the invitation of the local chess club, and
will tonight meet all corners in a stimuli
taneous game in the parlors OF the club ON
welfth street. He has an excellent
record as a player OF the game and has
defeated many OF the greatest or CON
temporary players. The first international
tourna Inent in which he appeared was the
sixth international tournament, held In
New York in 1889, when he secured ninth
MIA ce by defeating such men as BLACKBURN
of EnoIand. Burns Of scotland, Tschig-
\ "
ALI of whom were prize winners.
In the American national touih
hold in st. Louis, Cincinnati ana LOUIS
Vile he defeated, among other Weh-hho"
pIa vers, Judd, Lipschuetz, Pollock MaJ"'
Haurahan and DelnIont and won ihst pi i~'
I'm each tournament Without hSihe
game; and he was one OF the SIXTEEN VI
seventeen players in the interna'lohdi
tournament in New York, ia which Lasker
won the worlds championship. shoWater
came out third in this match.
He won third prize in the International
tournament before the City clup OF Ne"
York. when Pnlsbury became Worid 3
champion, and obtained Similar prlIe ~
the next international tournament hei"
I'm the Union Square Hotel, In New iorh'
when SteinitZ won the championship. ne
nartfeipated in the New YORK staatS-
Ze,t,rng tournament I'm Buffalo Severai
yaars agn and won the first prize, Pliis-
Inry coming out second. The only inter
national tournament W hich he has attended
abroad was the one held at Nuremberg IN
se5. but he viii attend the international
tournament in vienna next summer.
Mr.. show alter has participated in about
N I'm af1TC
porartss. and has made an excellent record
during the brief period he has been play
ing. His first important match was the
one with Max Judd in st. Louis in 1859.
He lost the opening game but won the one
pIay we'd in return. he next played set
match with LipschuetZ, and lost the hrst,
but won the second game. Not long after
ward he lost a game tn Lasker before the
International State Chess Association at
Kokoiua. Ind. He played Hodges before
the Manhattan Chess Club, of Brooklyn,
and Won and lost game.
| He played a match with PillsbUTy last
| spring but lost by a narrow margin.
/ Seven games were To have been won
| by the winner. At the conclusion of the
thirteenth game the score stood Sh0wal-
| ter Is, PilIsbury B, drawn =. The four
teenth game was won by Pillsbury, max
| ing the match tie. The number OF
games TO be won was then increased to
! eleven and PiIlsbury won.
The other matches played by ShOwalter
| have resulted as follows: Won from
| Eemeny before the Franklin Chess Club
| OF Philadelphia, games, lost 4, and
/ drew ,; won from Louis schmidt in New
- f--.,
! Barry, champion Of New England. before
| the Boston Chess Club. Z games and lost
| >; won from W II. X. Pollock, champion Of
| Ireland, at Lexington, KY, 4 games ana
lost .; won by an overwhelming score from
! G. II. Y. Gossip, champion Of Australia,
and celebrated author of standard chess
tre1tises; won a match from Holpern, before
the 9th Chess Club of New York.
Mr.. Showalter will leave for New York
Immediately after the game tonight.