New-York tribune., 1901-12-22
CHESS.
rrpopr IS REING MADE TO HOLD A
CONGRESS- IN ST. LOUIS IN 1908.

,,o+bar attempt to hold grand chess congress
IN this country is being made ny coiiili' Init,
composed of Max Judd, ex-Unlted states O 60
General at Vienna Benjamin R. Foster ana LII
r ormsby with the intention to have lhe eoh
ase take Mace at ST. Louis in 1903 at the time ol
the worlds fair. The committee calIs the propose
congress the Seventh American congress- anu p
sas +o arrange matters on much the same plan
&c ras adonted in the Sixth American congress-
held in this city in 1889. 1t plans 10 issue ooo
containing all the games to be played IN the IN
terna tonaI tournament which is to De the piihci-
nal number on the programme. 1t lntehus 10 lel
every subscriber to the amount of sl0 nave copy,
and while the committee has already guaranteed
the sum of 81 GO0 1t wishes to Increase the total
amount of the prize money to S1O,00, SO as u "
able to arrange several Journeys, propielh Coiipe
tttions etc. The committee has issued crcuidi
letter to all clubs associations and indlVlduai ches9
nIavers and has asked for cooperation In the
matter Considering that so many lnterna'ioha
Journeys have been played In Europe IN recent
wears 1t is really about time to arrange d srahd
carnival In this country and 1t is to be hopeo tha'
the exertions of the present committee VIII De
crowned with success.
Arnous de Riviere, the manager OF the monte
Carlo tournament, announces that he has received
four additional entries the tournament, which
is to begin on February l. These are Marshall OF
this CITY: Maroczy of Budapest; Schlechter, or
Vienna and Wolf of Budapest. The entry OF
Napier, who, by the way. left this city for Monte
Carlo yesterday, had not come TO mana "heh
above. AS stated in The Tribune last Sunday the
entries from Lasker Pillsbury, Janowski. Tschi-
gorin Won Scheve, Marco, Blackburne. Gunsoers'
Teichmann, Mason. Reggie. Bilecard Mieses'
Walbrodt. Albin and Taubenhaus have previously
been received so that there twenty-one candi-
dates in all, including Napier.
Chapon LaSker spent a few days at Paris where
he gave several exhibitions at the Cercle de Phil-
dor After the New Years vacation he will give
a course of mathematical lectures at Owens Col
lege in Manchester. England. at which institution
he has been engaged assistant lecturer on
mathematics
Marco and Schechter fulfilled a weeks engage
at the St Peterburg Chess Club recently,
while Janowsd is still touring in England.
Last night Pillsbury scheduled TO give a grand
blindfold exhibition at the Brooklyn Chess Club,
while tomorrow evening he will play sixteen mem
bers the New-York Athletic Club blindfolded and
simultaneously.
- The schedule Of games IN the intercollegiate
chess tourne ment has been arranged follows:
Thursday, December 26-SewaH agt. Sawn. Adams agt.
Keeler Sholly Roberts, agt- Tucker Hunt
Rice Hyde agt Hankinson. Pilgram agt- Catchngs
Carr agt. Dodd.
Friday December 27-Hunt agt. SewaII Keeler agt
Hankinson. Pigram Won Sholly Tucker agt. Dodd
Rice agt Sawn. Adams agt. Hyde Catchngs agt Rob
erts. Russ Carr.
Saturday December 2s-Rce agt. sewaI. Keeler agt
Hyde Won Sholly agt Cachngs Carr aGt Tucker Sawln
agt Hunt Adams Hankinson agt. Pilgram
and Dodd agt. Russ
SewaH. keeler, Won Sholly and Tucker represent
Columbia Rice. Hyde. Catchings and Carr. Har-
Hunt. Hankinson. Pigram and Dodd, Princeton.