Evening star., 1902-01-18
IN CHESS CIRCLES.

| The international tourney at Monte Carlo
is dated to begin February l. The Ameri-
| can entries will be Pillsbury. Marshall and
Napier. the latter's application, according
| to the Brooklyn Eagle, having been passed
| upon favorably. He will be the youngest
player ever admitted to one of these af-
| fairs. With today he reaches his twenty
| first year.
Although young in years. he is old in
| chess experience, having been follower of
the game from his youth, and is an excep-
tionally strong player. 1t is a reasonable
| guess that he will land we'll within the first
half of the players.
Lasker unfortunately for the importance
of the meeting, will be kept out by his
new duties as professor of mathematics at
the Manchester College. but gain of al
most equal Importance is the promised re-
appearance Of DR.. Tarrasch, who is one of
the select few of the masters of the play.
Inc list promises to be unusually long
put contains the names of many who are
great only locally and find their usual rest
ing places well down the column, while
some are new, but their grade Is known
Reggio OF Italy, Taubenhaus and Siddenfeld
OF France, Mason, Gunsberg and Techman
OF England. etc. The real fight will center
IN PillSbury, Tarrasch, Maroczy, Schlechter
and Janowski, with Napier among or close
TO these selects. Marshall is hard to place
He did astOnshingly well at Paris two
years ago. but has since fallen victim to
pretty near everything and every body.
Quite recently he again won the champion
ship of the Manhattan Club, and as he
claims the ocean voyage acts as a bracer for
him ne may again NOV down the big fel-
lows.
Mr.. McCutcheon of Pittsburg one of the
strongest American amateurs is the inyen-
tor OF new line of defense in the French
game. as follows, after the moves P-K4.
* IN L Il
k-kto; insead of the usual B-K2 he plays
the bishop to QKtJ, and has demonstrated
It's worth against even such a player as
Plllsoury. He now offers two purses of
SloO each to the Monte Carlo players One
goes to the best conducted attack against
this defense and the other goes to the
player of the black pieces who makes the
best showing playing this defense.
The recently opened correspondence
match between New York and PennsyIva-
MIA has produced seven games of which the
former has won five.
The match for the District chess cham
plohshlp VIII have its opening game Mon
day evening. The contestants Can't pat
rick oFarrell. the holder, and Mr.. F. n.
Walker. challenger, are well-seasoned
hands at the work, as each has been
througsl the performance more than once
before. 'ii.e
Capt. O'Farrell was champion of Belfast
before he came to this country in 1881 to
take part in the civil war and in which
rank of captain. After that strife he set
tied In New Haven, Conn.,. and was soon
cness champion of that state. Coming to
Washington he made a try for the cha M.
plonship with Mr.. Walker, but lost on ia.
occasion Then when Mr.. Hanna obtained
the tltie he made a match with him and
won Dy default Later he defeated Mr..
Gwyer Mr.. Walker obtained the title
ABOUT fve years ago by default from Mr..
wright defeated Messrs. OFarrell and
Mr.. Hanna -0'- ~
Ihe score in the Fox-Sournin match now
STANDS ) to 2 in favor Of the former. each
week. S s
Inc hrst game extended over ten hours
play, running over three days, and was
patiently fought out for small advantages
ana was finally won by Mr.. Sournin by
more accurate play. The second game was
oL the siashing variety and was won the
nrst days play, after four hours of exciting
situa tons. Mr.. Fox being the fortunate one
this time. ois