New-York tribune., 1905-12-23
HARVARD IN THE LEAD.
Defeats Columbia IN the Ir'tercot
legiate Chess Tournament.

Tne second round of the fourteenth annual inter-
collegiate chess tournament between four students
each from Columbia, Harvard. Yale and Princeton
Was played according TO programme at me "est
Side Republican Club yeserday afternoon and even
ing Columbia was Matched with Harvard ana
Yale with Princeton. Columbia went down oelore
Harvard and Yale proved too strong Tor Frihee
ton SO that Columbia lost the lead TO harNaiu'
which has 53a points TO her credit Yale mas won
five games Columbia and Princeton one-haIl-
The pairfng for the second round was as follows:
schroeder columbia VS.. Bridgman (HarVaI~)'
wcIn (Columbia) Bracket CHarvarD' Brown
fColurbia) Mcclure Q4arvard); Biumoerg 90
fuubial VS.. Cogswen (Harvard); Woodbury. (Ha1e)
vs. Ward OPrinceton): Headley (Columba vs..
Greenland CPrncetonl. and Burgess t1ale) VS. IL'oe
Hrlnceton). Bridgman. Wolff. Mcclure blu!nOets'
ward, Jameson. Greenland and Burgess hao INC
shite pieces. 49,.
.znoes had been concluded Mcclure had beaten
rsroxzu on the third board IN a Scilian Defence'
wherein the Columbia mans queens pawn pec9iie
xeskeued as the result of which ne entered tHe
end game with pawn down. resiGnn1s AItel ny ny
eve moves At the fourth board the harvard
rasv.r Cogsweu, selected the Marshall counter
attack to the Ruy Lopez against bIumoeIs' "
Columbia, and the two men emerged H0lH ~
opsuins with honors even- On Ihe l"ci-t! -1I1s'
move however Cogswel succeeded IN capturing
RS onoonent's king bishops pawn. and Thereafter
taa an easy ending, which he MON in f"rty-DVe
moves vs
pr /, --4ttv sacrifice OF the exchange. hooo-
s,,-v NJ yele managed to force Ward, OF Prince
son into a mating net, from which there was no
sscane and Ward resigned after q short game OF
sxentv-oue moves The Princeton man erred pad
Nv In making the capture of q rook with KNIGHT
when by moving his king instead, be might ieau-
sly have eQualized the position.
The Yale player Headley had the black side OF a
.oueen's Gambit declined and when his adversary,
Greenland of Princeton, weakened his kings
osyn by the advance of the kings bishops pawn
on the nineteenth move the former forced the ex-
change Of au the pieces and took commanding
-,osition with the king in the centre of the board
-b.cb turned the tide of battle in his favor after
ffty
Schroeder and Bridgman had a somewhat uI-
xventful game resulting from the French Defence
rh. former with a knight and bishop being unable
10 make any headway against two knights
draw was recorded after thirty-eight moves
A well contested game between Wolff, Of Column
his and Brackett of Harvard, eventually ended IN
CHE latter obtaining the upper hand after repelng
a dangerous attack on his king He first secured
the exchange and followed this up with the capture
OF piece Wolf resigned after thirty-eight moves.
Burgess of Yale. got the upper hand in his
game with Hinds, Of Princeton, by ensnaring the
latter in a trap on the nineteenth move, whereby
he obtained the advantage of the exchange In
the end Burgess sacrificed his rock for a knight
and neat ending after hfty-SlX moves.
The last game to be finished that between
Jameson, Yale, end Williams princeton. During
the earlier part of the contest the players were
position, but failed to make the most of his op-
portunities and lost pawn. After forty-nine
moves the game was adjourned to be sdjudicated
The standing is now as 1ollowsi