The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-19

Emanuel Lasker, Winner of
the Great Four Cornered
Masters Tournament at
St. Petersburg Between
Himself, Steinitz, Tchigo-
vim and Pillsbury, Will
Lecture at Commercial
Clubin Minneapolis Thurs
day Evening.

Minnesota will be hOnored this week
by a visit on the part of the world
chess champion, Emanuel Lasker, who
on Thursday afteRnoon, at the head
quarters of the Minneapolis Chess
club, will play thirty Minnesota rep
resentatiyes of the game simultane-
ouSly and in the evening at the parlorS
of the Commercial club of that city will
deliver a lecture on the science and art
Of this intellectual paStime.
With the exception of the one de-
feat at Hastings, England, in 1895,
when the young American champitFl,
Harry n. PillSbury, won first place
over all the European masters, Mr..
L3sker, himself a comparatively young
man, under forty, has met with no
match or tournament defeat since he
first won the world championship from
William Steinitz in the two famous
matches of 1894 The veteran Stein
itZ. who became e-eminent by win
ming the international tournaments at
London and Vienna in 1872 and 1873,
had, in the twenty-five years interven-
ing, played set matches with all the
experts Of two hemispheres and achiev.
ed a victory over every competitor,
until Lasker, the young Berlin student,
a2disciple of the very school of sci
eHtiffc chess of which Steinitz was the
founder, came forward with more eX-
act analysis and more highly finished
technique to which the veteran, then
at4three score years of age, was obliged
tQoSuccumb. -.
LaSker, by a narrow margin, lost his
first international tournament at Has
tings, but Immediately after, during the
same year at st. Petersburg. in the
four cornered masters tournament be-
tween himself Steinitz, Tchigorin and
PillSbury, which is the greatest contest
ofathe kind in the history of chess,
came out easily victor, as he did sub
Seauently at the international tourna-
ments in 1896 at Nuremberg. in 1899
ataLondon and in 1900 at Paris. In
the three last named tournaments
IaskeR defeated Pillsbury, Maroczy and
Japowski, who customarily divided Sec
ona, third and fourth honorS; the now
declining Steinitz being outclassed.
Speaking Of Mr.. Lasker, F. N. Stacy,
asiocal club expert, said yesterday:
sd Two Schools of Chess.
mir. -Lasker represents the so-called
scientific school of chess, as distin-
guished from that of. brilliant COM
binatiOn which was so popular in Nor.
phys day The distinguishing charac-
teristic of the two schools seems to
be that the one emphasizes develop
ment, of position. whereas the. other
relies upon ingenuity Of combination.
The one is q war of posts, and the
other is a contest of dashing assaults.
Thf one is devoted to a study of zthe
11sRst effective mobilization Of forces
a1E the reduction of the opposing
weeks by gradual approach. so as to
secure the superior command of the
field for attack. and defense; the other
isea study in the art of combination,
with a viewr by the brilliant and I'M
EXPECTED sacrifice of a piece or pieces,
tSi9spring d direct >checkmate of the
opposing king. ia
The history of matches and tourna-
ments show that, while the latter style
issanOre, fascinating to the spectators,
the former, or so-caIled scientific meth
Odr of positiOnal development, is more
productive: of chess victories.
Steinitz Founded Scientific School.
'Steinitz, who is the accredited foun-
der of the scientific school, first came
into chess prominence in Vienna as a
deVotee of the combination or brillian-
Cy schools. He invariably began his
attacks by the unexpected sacrifice of
piece. But when he left Venice and
came against the masters of Germany
and Great Britain he discovered that
the brilliant pyrOtechnics which daZed
local amateurs had no terrors for the
careful expert = He theTeupon began a
systematic study Of the history of chess
openings for the purpose Of establish
ing the principles of a system Of sound
positional development, and to this was