Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-04
HAVE II ENTRIES
For Championship Chess
Tourney.
Mr.. A. w. FOX COMMENTS
Says Crown Will Go Either to Cana.
blanca or Rubenstein-Mar-
shall an Erratic Player.
Championship
Tourney.
Chess
AR. A. w. FOX COMMENTS

Lasker. Cspablanca Rubcnstein. Mar
shall. Maroczy. Tarrasch. Schiechter.
Speilmarn. Niemzowitsch, Bernstein. Nid-
mar, puras. Burn. Leonhardt. Teich-
mann, Mieses and Janowski. these are
the masters to whom invitations have
been sent for the New York-Havana
championship tournament
Mr.. A. ". Fox OF the Washington
Chess and Whist Club who has met most
OF these masters lover the board and Is
thoroughly familiar with the records and
abilities OF all the international tourna-
rnent PLAYERS. being a master himself.
has the following interesting comments
to make on this invitation list:
"Rosebault has acted wisely In increas-
ing the number OF entries from twelve
to seventeen. and. indeed l should IKE
to see the field raised 10 twenty. SO as to
include Alechine. Cohn and Marco. In
this revolutionary tournament the man.
agement cannot AFFORD to take the chance
Of having the new CHAMPION repudiated
by even three or four first-class masters.
invited will not be able to accept-Dr.
Lasker will almost certainly cecline-in
which event the places OF those who
cannot, or Will not, enter can easily be
and several others have the requisite
strength for this great event. and any
master who receives an invitation and
does not take advantage OF II Will be i'm
no position to deny his support to the
winner. The situation requires. and has.
SO FAR. received. the exercise OF the incest
diplomacy. the most infiexible justice and
the sharpest judgment on the part OF
Mr. Rosebauit The present state of at
fairs in regard to the championship ut
terly IS intolerable. but II will take time
and many matches to give the New
iork-Havana champion as satisfactory a
title as would the actual defeat OF Las
ker In a worlds championship match. IL
is to be hoped that Cspablanca will win
the tournament and quadrangular match,
as chess players in general We u!d then
feel that the crown had indeed ne to
the king. Suppose Tarrasch. Marsaail or
Janowski should be the victor They
have all been badly defeated by LaSner
| In match play. However. tiis : 4 dan
ger which must be riskea. aaa unless
they are sadly out OF form the Prize
should go to either Capablanca or Ra5ess-
STEM
| Springing suddenly into the center II
the spotlight. In the greet PaT.s ioG.5a-
ment OF 1900. by defeating Lasl.er and
Pillsbury and landing third prize in
strong field Of seventeen players. Frank
Marshall. champion OF the United States.
Is certainly the strangest figure in the
| world OF chess-and that Is going some"
Today the winner of an immortal game.
tomorrow defeated By the poorest player.
| or the most unsound animation, OF the
tournament: victor at Cambridge Springs
and Nuremberg. against the strongest
players of the world. without the loss OF
q single game. vanquishe6 by Lasker and
iCapablanca, I'm match play. without q
single won game to his credit, the fight
| OF his genius In a variable beyond the
rules OF any human calculus to chart.
After the Monte Carlo tournament in 19C3.
where he WAS eighth In a field OF four
teen. masters prophesfed that he would
never again be contender for first
honors in an international tourney: in
1904 he won the Cambridge Springs
tournament with I-asker Pillsbury.
Schlechter. Tschigorin, Teichmann ard
Janowski against him, with the unpar-
al;eled score OF eleven wins, four draws
and no losses.
| 1t is probable that Marshairs erratic
| record il, I'm a great degree. the result
of his frequent periods OF poor health.
His style Is always positive" and he
wins or loses HIS own games by carry
1 Ing the war into the enemy's country"
For this reason he IL without an equal as
q tournament player, when at his best.
During his last visit to Washington, some
three years ago, ne expounded his theory
OF tournament play to the writer in
somewhat the following terms: II am a
better player than all but three or four in
any tournament Why should / run the
risk OF a draw by playing safe against a
man I can beat?"
The following games from the Vienna
tournament OF 1908 will show how Mar
shall can Ego up like a rocket and come
down like a stick