Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-11
IN CHESS CIRCLES

The accepted play after this has been
Q-Rich; Delmar's suggestion instead is
to play 14RxB, CHI, KtxR; 10 Ok as giving
black the difficult end of the game.
The well-known players who have gone
into this contest are Delmar of New YORK,
Phillips, Parke, L'hommede, Chicago; Kali
ser, Philadelphia; Walcott, Boston, Voss
Kansas; E. p. Hanna of this city, Dr.
Meyer Richmond, and McIlwaine of Platts-
burg, N. Y.
The cable match between the Manhattan
and Havana clubs took three sittings. On
their thirty fifth move the Manhattans won
a pawn and this decided the contest in
their favor.
The Blenheim Club of London put up
purse for four games up, for a match be-
tween Frank Marshall and the Britisher,
James Mortimer. Marshall had an easy
time, winning all four straight
Max Judd, a former champion of the
United States, in the st. Louis tourney TOT
the silver cup, has won it for the second
time
A few weeks ago in bringing forward a
selection of the British chess magazine
notes and tabulation of the results OF tne
various openings at Monte Carlo, 1t was
noted that when Black played Tin answer
to PKG P-QB4, the Sicilian defense,
that he won fifteen times, White only SIX
and one was drawn, and 1t was expressly
stated that the difference could not De In
puted to the inequality of the players.
Now this is terrible preponderance ana
seems almost enough to justify the nrst
player in using any opening; othe1 o 1,a,
P-K4 to escape that bad-looking P-QB4,
which is played on the general principle
of attaining and carefully holding pawn
center for the end game If victory shoulo
not come sooner.
near invincible as it may look, and perhaps
it is not the strength of the DEFENSE out
one inherent and regularly continued weak
ness in the attack that causes an TINS
slaughter. 1t is respectfully suggested that
pot at second third or fourth move with
out pawn at OBJ to retake and give Wmte
the same chance to support ms center Win
pawns that Black arms is the weakness
Ry this means Black may possibly be Iorced
to n French defense position that is favor
able to White. 49,
It is admitted that existing analysis does
not support this suggestion, as IL VIII DE
noted in the games following the respective
annotations pass over the early move
POT followed by ktxP, as settied pay
But there is room for reflection In the lact
that the variations that follow nave heen
pretty thoroughly worked over by the ana
lysts and some of the master players, i-nd
the road to an even game in actual prac-
tice has not been discovered, and so sus-
costing that the analysis go back step =
There is a general reason that comes in
here as in all games-don't play your OPP
ponents game when you can vary your
p]ay on even grounds He sees 1t with re-
greet His pet scheme of attaining set po-
sitions he likes is knocked out, and he is
thrown on his own resources.
The tone of what goes before Will no
doubt show that no attempt is being made
to prove a proposition, but only to open the
question. Possibly it is the swing of the
pendulum, after all, and the next turn may
be Whites
It is remembered that White does not lose
all his games. The object here is to show
the general course of Black in actual prac-
tice when winning.
This first example is from the Hastings
tourney, and is one of the few games, older
than the last few years, that exhibits the
modern style to manage the opening.