The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-22
COLUMBIA LEADS In CHESS
LOCAL COLLEGEANS DEFEAT
TaEE IN FiRST ROUND.
Harvard HAS 90 play a substitute and Loses
to PrincetOn-CRpt. WOlm OF Columbia
Wins n Lively tame From ThurstOn
Of Vale I'm intercollegiate Tourney.

Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton
came together for the sixteenth annual inter-
collegiate chess tournament at the rooms
Of the West Side Republican Club. TINS city
yesterday. and after a second session OF play
in the evening, which was required to con-
clude all the games, Columbia. winner OF the
tournament of last year, emerged with the
hOnOrs Of the first round.
The New Workers disposed OF the Yale
quartet TO the tune Of three points to one.
Wolff, Blumberg and Ramsdell scored Tor
the local university at the three top boards.
while q. Burgess. n son OF Bishop Burgess
OF Long Island. prevented a shutOut for the
New Haven team by winning at the fourth
table.
has now gone nine times altogether received
a painful shock at the hands OF Princeton.
The Tigers furnished a distinct surprise by
downing the Crimson ia TO ~. PRINCETON
il a chance that the representatives sent out
by Old Nassau this time may break the ice.
A change was made necessary in the per-
sonnet OF Harvard's team. owing TO the nom
appearance OF f. n. Gruening.N E. r. Browne
was on hand 90 substitute and was placed at
the fourth table, the other players on the
Crimson lineup each moving up a peg.
The liveliest play of the day was Witnessed
at the first board. where Capt; WOln OF Column
gamblt, which the New Haven player ac-
cepted, after thirty-three moves. Woln was
in difficulties soon after the start. being un-
able to regain the pawn sacrificed.
He developed to good purpose on the
queens side, giving up another pawn. put
won a piece by cutting on the support OF the
black queen from the bishop with a check OK
the knight on the twenty-frst move
At the second board Blumberg or COlunnbia,
after having a blocked position Tor sixteen
moves with Jefferson Of Yale, lost a pawn.
but recovered in good style. The New
Yorker won A piece In the ending and nnaIly
scored.
Despite the fact tina he forfeited the right
Of casting at the fifteenth turn Ramsdell OF
Columbia Outplayed T.. b. Burgess OF Yale
az the third table and won after twenty-nine
moves. Burgess erred in isolating. his queen
meantime Ramsdell was perfecting his attack
with rock. knight and queen.
Pfeiffer, fourth man for Columbia, lost a
pawn on the twenty-frst move and there
Cumbed after thirty-eight moves.
At the nth board. where Johnson OF
Harvard was pitted against Williams Of
Princeton. the former lost n piece within
fourteen moves, but recovered the material
in due course. The ending resolved itself
into a knight and pawn puzzle. and the posi-
ton after forty-nine moves was adJudlcated
a draw by Referee Helms.
Hit of Harvard had an even struggle with
Stephens of Princeton. but lost a pawn on
the thirty -eighth move. stephen scored
handily after fft y-seven moves.
Parsley OF Harvard won his game from
Alexander of Princeton by virtue OF getting
his rock to the seventh row, thereby obtaining
a distinct advantage in the scramble for
pawns, He scored after fifty-slx moves.
Browne, the substitute for Harvard. held
his own we'll for a time against Tiemann of
Princeton at the last board. but eventually
yielded to the lntter's superior position play.
Tiemann scored after thirty-seven moves,
yesterday are contained in the appended
table.