New-York tribune., 1908-12-24
rtNAL STANDING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE
CHESS TOURNEY
HARVARD.

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zo-snoetop Won the seventeenth annual intercol-
,ac4sre chess tournament at the West Side Repuh-
~, 07,.b Yesterday with total Of ~ games won
- - lost Harvard was second game be
ti75- Columbia third and Yale last The Harvard
,.,a-s made gallant effort TO head off the Tigers
- u-o, tbe fnal round by q score Of 2lk to IL
r.-,es hut Princeton. thanks to lead of two
80 established b. defeating Columbia and Yale
= Monday and Tuesday. managed TO hold the ad-
s,-sse BY enough 10 win. for the first time in
- rfsro-v Of the tournament In the other match
y The final round yesterday Columbia defeated Yale
w score OF ~ to IL games and finished one
.rt-,e behind Harvard
Csn1ain l. " Stephens of Princeton. won his
ssr.e al the top board and shared with W. w.
.-s,lev Of Harvard the distinction Of placing all
-. sz-1ss 10 the credit Of his team. Parshley,
L,vrevtr played throughout at the third board,
vhe-eas Stephens had the strongest players on the
.-,ost,z teams 10 contend against. The other
,s-se members Of the winning team were J ".
I,srsnder J. 1. TYemann and H r. Ferger.
The sixteen players we're the guests OF Edward
CsxreTI Yale. 'sS, originator Of the tournaments.
:. f. breakfast given at the Yale Club yesterday
--,--ing when the following We're elected members
- re International cable match committee: E r.
per- Harvard: A 5 Jameson, Yale. and J. B.
Tzurt PT1nceton The member for Columbia Will
~ selected 81 future date
n addition 10 winning the intercollegiate cuo.
which Columbia had won for the last two years.
the Princeton players each received the usual sill
w. medals provided by the alumni.
Al the first board Blumberg. Of Columbia, and E
Fy-sess tie Yale captain. engaged in a battle
-ovsl thst ended in a draw after forty-ave moves,
with Burgess holding q slight advantage in ma
.s-isI which he could not turn to account The.
Yale player had the white pieces in a Queens
csn75it Declined. and on the fifteenth move an
a-se 1-fr-T
5ishop fle. Burgess utilized his opportunity for
attacl, until ne finally piece in clever style
Bl1-be-E however. was left with two connected
PASSED pawns. which the referees declared TO be
Sufficient 10 draw against the extra white knight
CAPTAIN c. Homer RaInsdeG, Of Columbia, playing
against O. Burgess al the second table. played
sQirite6 game and forced victory in = Queens
Gsu5it Declined after twenty-five moves, the
shortest game Of the round. The game was quite
regular until the twelfth move, when Ransdel
began series OF harassing moves with his bishop
causing The black queen u be badly placed Win
mag piece on the tRenty-frst move, the Blue and
White skipper quickly scored
One Of The longest games OF the day was be-
tween Co.us,oclz. Columbia and jefferson. Yale, at
The third board the latter having the white pieces
IL Ruy Lopez. Al the beginning Jefferson wor-
lied his adversary not little and forced Com
STOCK 10 castle tie queens side Of the board,
thereby losing has OR pawn Comstock showed
great stead5aess under pressure, and after eX-
changing queens entered upon rOOk and pawn.
ending with & pawn minus. Jefferson was out
played from this point and resigned after fifty
eght moves.
Elsssser. Of Columbia, the high road 10
sacceas in Ills game against Chandler, Of Yale, on
the fourth board. when he exposed his queen 10
stack ana lost q knight In consequence This de-
o6e5 me game in favor Of the Yale man after
faTty-t--ee moves Elsasser had opened with the
F0ur knights game.
Superior tactics ia end play gave Stephens. the
Princeton captain. the victory over Gruening, or
Harvard. after fty-six moves Gu the fifth board
Stephens played as favorite Zukertort opening
and On th= seventeenth move took possession OF
tie kings bishop fle which had been forced open
With - 70 K4 an ingenious resource, the
Princeton man cleared the centre for occupation
by his queen and although queens were eH-
changed Immediately after, he commanded more
than his share Of the board with rook and bishop.
Noreove- ne had the superiority Of pawns on the
kings side. and this drew the black king TO one
side q the board. After exchanging the remain
ing rocks Stephens won handily on the queens
wing where be captured bishop in return Tor a
pawn. This practically ended The struggle
A premature attack by Alexander. or Prlncelon
got him into difficulties In his game with Johnson
The sixth board, and the Harvard man won a pawn
Cn tf@ fourteenth move johnson worked up WI4at
teemed 20 be an irresistible attack but tne Prince
oa player was not 10 De downed sRasily HIS KING
unable 10 castle bat. nevertheless ne oeclineo
ar exchange of queens on the txenty-third move
which stage he was pawn down Later Iohh-
won several Tawns and captured the eAchalise
q the tv-eYt v-sexenth move Winning the queen
for rock on the fortieth move, johnson won alter
hfry-eEht moves. despite the fact that MS oppo-
uent's raeeed pawn had reached the seventh row
ParzrIev af Harvard, scored his third victory at
ire expense Of Tienann. Of Princeton, AT the
Eeventa board The Crimson representative selected
tse Dutch Defence and profting TO the extent OF a
PAW bv Tenants oversight on the twentieth
move which spoiled the Iatter's ideal position, won
after ffr--eight moves
The game between FerGer, OF Princeton, and
Byerly OF Harvard. lasted E9eII into the evening
session. and finally given over to the referees
for adjudication on this game depended the out
come of the tournament. as a victory FOR Byerly
would have permitted Harvard to tie Princeton in
tae score. thereby nscessitatng a play of Byerly
had bishop against his opponents knight the
outcome q a French Defence adopted by Ferger'
and paHns in equal number remained on the board
Tie officials decided the position draw. and anX-
le1y for the outcome was al end This game
lasted foTJy-ilye moves.
Following the pairings' and results Of the
final round
COLUMBIA YALE.