Evening star., 1898-11-12

Warren Tucker. .... o 5
Captain OFarrell, who last month was
appointed on a committee of which Mr.
James Lesser of Boston is chairman for
the purpose of formulating plan of union
of national chess clubs, has received no
tice of meeting of the committee in New
York early in December. Each member is
asked to formulate a plan
The Brooklyn club has received the ac-
ceptance OF its challenge to the British
Chess Club for the fourth match for the
Newnes trophy, to be played January l and
April l. 1899.
New York is about to suffer the loss of
its young Napoleon of chess, w. E. Napier,
the astonishing boy player who is to re-
move to Chicago.
The American Chess Magazine announces
that Piilsbury will make tour of the
country this winter under its management.
in blindfofd and simultan aous performances
The English are making preliminary ar
ransements for an international tourney
next May. Five thousand dollars have al
ready been subscribed to make it a desir-
able affair, of which Sir George Newnes.
the donor of the cable match trophy do
rated one thousand. 1t is proposed to have
sixteen players-to be selected by the com
nfttee of arrangemcnt-Dlay tWo-round
contest.
The Ladies Chess Club of London has
had match with the University Club and
defeated them wholesale seven wins and
a draw to nothing. Look out for them.
young fellows They must be Morphvs
every one of them for he could never make
up his mind to win from a woman
The Journeys of the former generation
was conducted on principles far different
from the present plan. In the first Ameri-
can chess congress, for instance conducted
on the same principle as all the earlv ones).
the players did not meet each other in sue
cession, but, pairing off, played five games
That was the first section The winners
in this section formed the second section
and so on until one man remained unde-
feated. This plan was extremely defective
for the reason that the best two nlayers
might be paired against in the first sec
ton and number two be thrown out of
the contest entirely. Thus it happened that
Stanley, champion of the country up to the
congress, was pitted in the first round
against Lichtenhein, a good deal Younger
man and a mighty bright player champion
before he came to this country of his ma
tive city, konigsberg. They fought a fine
contest, but Stanley got but two while
Llchtenhein made three and the old
champion was thrown entirely out of the
contest.
This contest initiated in this respect the
London tournament Of 1851. played during
the great international exhibition of thai
year, the first of its kind as the tourney
was also the first in its line, and the same
accident harper ed then, as Lowenthal and
kieseritsky two of the best were thrown
lieved himself the first player of the day
got only fourth place and was very savage
in his remarks on ANDERSEN and others
who passed him..
The Journeys of this day are ARRANGED so
that each player meets in succession every
other player, formerly but once. Lately
two rounds are coming into vogue and the
Washington club has it to it's credit of
being among the first to inaugurate the
plan.
The betterment of chess notation is
matter of frequent comment in these days
Il is admitted that the Germanic naming
of the squares is superior to ours With
US each square has two designations with
them but one. Thus, whites OR square
IL Al in the German code, in the English
it is for white OR square and for black
Is QRS, losing in distinctiveness and also
the number of letters used. On the other
hand, our notation of the moves is little
simpler than theirs, as, for instance, our
move P-k4 is recorded by them E2-Ei.
When we have to note moves on the kings
or queens wing, we save nothing. thus our
move, P-QR4, is marked by them A2-A4.
"A blending of the two would produce a
perfect system. German and American,
residents of this city, on coming together
and having few Informal games agreed
to more formal match. But there dif-
ficulty occurred. The German didn't know
the English method and the American
didn't know the German, so they agreed on
a new code based each The German
plan of naming whites first row after the
first eight letters and the other squares by
figures, and the English method of naming
the piece moved was adopted. Thus, P-K4
in the English and E2-E4 in the German
code became Pea, and P-QR4 in English
and A2-Ai in German became P-A4. The
simplest notation ever used in English is
Lowenthal's edition of Morphy's games
Besides other FORMS he dropped the dash
between the letters, which. if misplaced. as
It often is by the compositor, will stop any
but an experienced player.
The Showalter-Janowski match is to COM
mence Monday, November IA. The stakes
are $50 a side They are to play at the
rate of seven games every two weeks. The
contest is seven games UP. The time limit
is fifteen moves per hour
The Following game was played by Nor
ply blindfold against the whole Versailles
Chess Club. 1t was a great test of his
powers thus to be pitted against the united
efforts of so many men, skilled in the game.
Inc result depended on one thing-he could
see more moves deep into the game than
any man, and therefore deeper than
body of men. 1t is In keeping with the
eternal fitness of things that they played
the French defense.
FRENCH DEFENSE.
White. Rlock White Rock
MOrphy. Versailles MorDby Versailles
P-k4 P-K3 Is P-KKt4 Kt-B3
8PxP PIP II Prs RLK
kt-kB3 kt-KB3 Is Kt-K2 P-KR4
X X n