The record-union., 1899-02-10
4 NEW CHESS TOURNAMENT.
CAPITAL CITY CHESS CLUB TO
BEGIN ONE.
Remarkable Feats Of H. N. Pills
bury, the Young Amer
lean Player.

The Capital City Chess Club will be-
gin grand tournament next Tuesday
evening, twelve contestants having
signed to enter, and four prizes have
been offered, the players being divided
into four classes. The tournament will
consist Of about eleven rounds, and
Will be finished about the 18th of April
next. This contest will be conducted
upon strict business principles, the
rules and regulations will be closely
followed, and all the players will with
out doubt do their very best.
Though the last tournament Of the
club has not as yet been finished, Eg-
bert A. Brown can safely be named as
first winner, with General Robert L..
Peeler as second; and in the coming
tournament no doubt there will be a
hard struggle for the first prize be-
tween these two gentlemen. In the
coming contest the first class yields
the odds Of pawn and move to second
class, the odds of pawn and two moves
to third class, and the Knight to fourth
class
The remarkable tour of H. M. Pills
bury through the United States has
created a profound and unrestrained
enthusiasm, not only in the chess
world, but also in the realms of check
ers and whist, for Mr.. Pillsbury in his
marvellous exhibition of blindfold play
combines the three great games, play
ing simultaneously chess, checkers and
whist
These exhibitions he carried on in the
following manner: At the beginning
of play the performer having the white
men announces his first moves on all
the boards which are numbered There
upon the player in charge of the first
table makes a move on the board in
front of him, and the teller, who may
be any person thoroughly familiar with
the game and it's notation. calls out
distinctly the move thus made. The
expert replies with his second move
whereupon the teller moves the piece
thus indicated and proceeds to table 2.
The player at that board Immediately
makes his move, which is called out
by the teller, and precisely the same is
done as in the case of board l. This
process is then repeated until all the
tables have been visited, when attention
is once more turned to the first board,
where the player must be ready with
his second move. While Mr.. Pillsbury
is thus mentally conducting say ten or
twelve games of chess and five or six
games of checkers he is also playing a
game at whist, at which he is also an
expert
AT Springfield, Mass, Mr.. Pillsbury
was pitted against twenty-eight play
ers. seventeen at chess and eleven at
checkers. He won fifteen at chess, lost
one and one draw; at checkers he won
four and lost two. At Davenport, Ia,
the champion faced .twenty-four oppo-
nents at chess, winning twenty two
losing one and one draw. At the Young
Mems Christian Association, Worces-
ter. Mass, he met thirty-four oppo-
nents, twenty of whom were chess
players and fourteen checker players
the latter including some of the best
experts in New England. When the
exhibition ended Mr. Pillsbury had won
seventeen, lost two and drawn one at
chess, While the score showed seven to
one in his favor at checkers, with six
drawn. At Watertown, N. j., he played
blindfold six games of chess, at which
he won four and lost two; four games
of checkers, at which he won two and
drew two, at the same time playing five
hands of duplicate whist, his side win
ming out.
Following is a game played by the
champion with Max Judd of ST. Louis: