Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-25
IN CHESS CIRCLES.

The rapid-transit at the Washington
Chess Club rooms Washingtons birthday
was success in every way. Twenty-four
payers came into the scramble and good
sized gathering of spectators was on hand
to see the fun. All kinds of ridiculous
errors were made, owing to the very linn
tied time. thirty seconds, allowed between
moves. The battle is not always to the
strong was exemplifed in this case to a
surety. From the very nature of the case
a skittle player who never starts out to
play hard chess, but hops his pieces along
on the spur of the moment, getting expert
ence after a long time at that kind of play,
stands when 1t comes to the rapid-transit
half-rlinute move-the rankest kind of skit-
tles-in good deal better position than
one who always tries to play good chess,
avoids hasty conclusions and wants all the
time the law allows. OF the eight who fell
in the first round, Messrs. Woodward,
Walker, Martin Finn and DR.. Smeads are
experienced players but they fell unWept-
that's what the gang wanted-and in the
next round, when Mr.. Allen failed to enter
the biggest kind of an open door and save
dead won game from Capt. O'Farrell,
there was much sorrow; yet this was as
suaged in the third round, when Mr.. Ly-
man put the captain out, leaving in of the
oldtinlers only Mr. w. H. Smith. How
ever, no bones were broken nor were any
hearts The winner laughed because he
thing SO ridiculous and still stay out OF the
asylum. So everybody had something to
be thankful for. To crib the lingo or MI
Chauncey Depew, nobody suffered from
excessive cerebration.' yet still there was
some good chess played.
Mr. G. F. Bryan in the first round put up
a good game against O'Farrell, and fell only
after a long contest with recognized good
player Mr.. Gotoffsky also played an ex-
ceIlent game against Prender in the same
round Mr.. Walker remembering the Ole
adage. Take care Of the pennies ana the
dollars will take care of themselves, mad a
good eye for his bishops pawns, and so
forth and by that time his half minute was
up and Mr.. Lake was mean enough to take
his queen. The best game of the day was
the last one, and will show up well in good
company and is appended
The result by rounds is as follows-al the
contestants being in the first round:
Jas. Patterson beat s. W Tucker, W. h.
Thomas beat DR.. Lee. w. H. Smith beat
Colonel Alexander. J. l.. Warren beat VIM.
Finn. A-en Prender beat Mr.. Gotoffsky,
w. w Lowe beat ]. L. Martin, Percy Allen
beat Dr. Smeads, W. Lake beat F. B.
Walker. H. Harold beat o. Woodward, T.
B. Lyman beat J. P. Campbell. Captain
O'FarrcH beat c. F. Bryan, r. II. Colds
borough beat J. A Heydler.
All the losing being out, the winners lined
up and in the second round Lyman beat
Thomas, Premier beat Goldsborough, War
ren beat Harold, Smith beat Lake, Patter-
son beat Lowe, OFarren beat Allen.
In the third round Prender beat Warren,
Smith beat Patterson, Lyman beat OFar-
ren.
In the fourth round PreGder beat Smith.
In the fifth Lyman beat Prender.
Lyman thus won first prize, years sub
scription to La Strategic; Prender took sec
ond Freeborough's Chess Openings, and
Smith. third, not selected. Mr.. Jno. Prem
der undertook the burdensome duties of
timekeeper, lasting, with short recess for
dinner from o'clock till 1890 pm.
Thirty-SecOnd limit game. Dlayed in the
Knockout tourney on Washingtons birth
day: