The sun., 1910-01-09
The CHESS PLAYERS CORNER
LASKER AND SCPLECHTER AT
WORN At VIENNA.
the ChamptOn's Change OF Attitude At
Last He Accepts the scheme sug-
Eested by The sun" Years Ago
Notes and News Of the Ancient Game.


Last Wednesday The SuN printed a story
Tint LAsker and Schlschter had agreed upon
ulayInR a match for the championship pf
the world under the condition that only ten
Rames should decide the issue, five OF these
games 70 be played In Vienna and the final
nN- games in Berlin For wears Steinitl
maintained that series OF say hest OUT Of ten
gamSs would not be real est Of strength.
tESsfhe man winning the first game need
only dray the rect to secure the verdict. and
candidate for championship honors after
losing y game had practically 10 concede
the oddS,of draw "a his adversary for the
rest ofstle series. White this is perfectly
true. the question arises, aud rightly too.
Why did ptayeT lose that first game at all?
Why did he not exercise I he ueC essa ry ca ution
from the start, and why did he 20 in for ex-
pertmenting on new theories in important
contests! The answer - this question ia
comparatively easy. Sseinitz could not
play without experimenting. and. moreover,
he was generally out Of practice before
plsIfng important matches, and bt degrees
he got that practice by actual play and
although he oftentimes lost few games at
the start he came out victorious In the end
because IN match Of ten games up in which
drawn games are not counted he had ample
Time to recuperate. q thing which actually
happened in his match with Zukertort. n
" Ter these reasons that Steinitz insisted upon
the ten games up" principle In chess
matches
Nter Lasker's victory over steinitz TIE
SuN.suxgested to Lasker to drop that prin-
cipie OF playing long drawn out matches in
whioh. everybody concerned namely
plsyefs. spectators and newspapers, loses
every Interest, and instead adopt the best
out OF ten games principle for subsequent
cnc9unters Of this nature. THE Sun also |
snggesied to the new champion to travel 10
tHglsnd. Germany. France. Austria and |
Russia and try to arrange matches under |
these conditions with the champions OF |
iheSe respective countries sNd thereby |
really establish his superiority over the |
wrrld's strongest players.
" first. after receiving u challenge from,
schle liter, the champion thought of making |
~ an eight games up" such as he played
oEainst both Marshall and Tarrasch. Later
IN he announced change of attitude,
namely OF making it best out of thirty
asmes . match. with the proviso. however,
ihRt majority OF two games at the end OF |
the series should win the championship,
and if schlechfer should fail to get that ma
Jority basker to remain champion of the
world. The latter, who carried on nego-
iietions with the clubs, hoped to be able to
ret The clubs TO secure some OF these thirty
RNnes. but he soon found that the clubs
appealed to were not at all ready to pay
the exofbitant fees asked for by the cham
picR New York, Stockholm, st. Peters,
burg, Sc., we're not willing to part with
the money asked for. and only Vienna and
BcrliH were able to raise sufficient money
10 se-ure five games each. Under the cir
rumsiances necessity the mother of in
entions, brought about a state of affairs
hichlN welcome to all parties concerned
The match will be just as interesting, If
Eor more SO. a. II n were - be long drawn
rut afgir. II will not be so exerting to the
hlhNcys. not so expensive TO the chess
PLAYERS and what is still more desiroUs the
hatD r'ion viii be able to play more often.
l.arksr's match with Janowski which was
not IsExe1 for the hampionship was Just
eng en9uGly and was productive of some
'eLy tine Speri of play.
Cn e Faore the members Of the Manhattan ,
hess Club bonored Aristides Martinez by |
'.e, tlu2 this distinguished patton to sue
eed himself ~ president OF the club, having |
= uititss! that position for over ten years {
81 the e!cctiUn, which took place last Thurs {
lay evening". X. W. Ferguson was Sfgain !
cte1 into the offlce of vice -presideuv. o, :
.uSseI as corresponding secretary, and !
laN JacQby as treasurer. The new board |
y directors consists OF William NJ de Wiser :
elk y. Kahn. j, q. Jimeuis, Alexander lie | I
'tno. Samuel Emery and l.. B. Meyer The
ne mbers passed resolution increasing the | n
unual dues from $50 to se5 per snnum. n
. from the table below IN will be seen that =
MARSHALL has increased his lead ia the cham \
'toDshlp tournament OF the Manhattan /
'iIe<= Club, Joiner and Roethin1 having
nc next best percentage. The record 10 n