The sun., 1912-07-14
AT THE CHESSBOARD;
GAMES AND PROBLEMS
A Big International Field Is
Ready to start at
BrPslau.
HOFFER AND THE TITLE
Great Work Now Being Done by
the German and British
Organizations.
HOFFER AND THE TITLE

week " very StTOnU OUN, az W III De eeeu
from the list of competitors. which reads az
follows: Balla. Barasa, Breyer. Burn. Carls.
r. Cohn. Duras. Lcwitski. Lowt2ky Mar
shall. Miescs. Proxies Praepiorka. Salwe.
Schlcchtcr. Spielman. Succhting very
prominent South German master. who.
however. does not wish TO have his name
appear In print this is probably Or. Tar
rasch ~ Nuremberg, and Teichmann,
eighteen In all While there are quite
number Of absen'ees. there are again n few
uhS will make their dcbuts in an interna-
tional ring, and thus much interest will be
evinccd AZ this event.
The tournament. which Is played under
the auspices of the German Chess Associa-
tion. Is. however not the only feature OF
the congress. large number OF ANA
teurs have entered two Journeys. 50 called
hdupnurnicre There are eighteen in Class
4, namely. Joseph Barton OF Ieitomischl.
Rudolf Bauer of Troppa,. Kurt Cranz OF
Rreslau. Iudolf Dusck of Prac. NJ. Elias
chow Of Wien B Gregory Of Berlin.
Gutmaver of Muchlau. y. Innsbruck. $.
Herland of Bukares,. Joseph IIrdinn of
Woorgl =. I.angl"bcn Of Warschau. Is
Maliutin of Petersburg, fr, ottcnsooser s,f
Berlin Fr Pali,7sch of Brcsln,i. =. Rosen-
thai of Heidelberg :. Schapiro Of Muencheu.
". 4 I. Schclthou' Of Amsterdam. q.
1enner and V. Wadl Of ARram. In Class
! II there are the following entries q. Bauriede
Of Musnchen. Korvct'enkapltan Behnisch
Of Berlin, J Brach Of Brunn. A. Brinck
of Kicl L. noncgan of Mngdehurg. &. Eliso
| Of Berlin. p Fiebie o9 Danzig. A. Franck
of Charlottenhurg. NJ. Carrulak Of Bruenn
Dr. llar'laub Of Bremen. &. Hauck of Brcs-
! lau. Hilicrn Flnsch of Baden Baden. DIR
Hoehncn % Alenstein. Freiherr Won Holz-
hausen Of Naumburg. X. 4. Jablonski of
krcuzburR. X. Kcrkovms of Muenchen.
! Ad. Kramer of Breslnu. =. Kruger of Ham
burg. i. krusius of ocln. y. I.aulshergcr
of Brcslau. /. Prohs, of CoburR. Tn. rrusse
of Berlin. NJ Rausoh of Eibenstock. g..
Rolls of Breslau. X. \. Roman Of koenig-
shuttle. Il Ro'hhaller of Rayrei'h. sven
si,zky Of Bromhcr0. 4. Villarct of Berlin.
u Ws9cmund of Berlin, H. Wodicka OF
Budweis FIR. Iidlcky of Prag and thinner
of Iimbach. thirty-two In all,
| twil, thus he seen that sixty eight PLAYERS
will he engaged in three intcrnat ional
| tournaments during the coming weeks.
While this is possible abroad. such n thing
! is almost unheard of in this country II is
| all the more supervising. since none of the
players in any Of the 'hrc classes will
get any comyensation for travelling and
other expenses. that every player rartiCi-
pating in any Of the three tournaments
/ will have 10 pay an entrance fee and that
tho prizes are comparatively fev and from
an American point % view verp small.
OF course through very energetic work on
! the part Of the officers of tho German Chess
Association we're those things made possible.
| In n similar way the British Chess Fedora
tion. which i. at the bottom Of all organized
| chess in Great britain. looks out for the
in,crcst OF British chess. and there is no
doubt that the meeting of that federation
| at Richmond during the days from August
IL TO ~ will be equally successful.
By way of contrast ono has only to look
AZ things in the Empire State. The New
Nork Chess Association. which has been
in existence over twen'y-fve years. has
the greatest possible trouble TO attract a
sufficiently large number Of entries for
their annual winter and mid summer meet
ings. Although the mid summer meeting
Is announced TO take place az Trenton Falls
during the second week of next month. 20
far the osficias have been unable 10 give
any particulars as regards the programme
and entries. and this in spite OF the fact
that sufficient publicity has been given "a
the forthcoming event. II is to he hoped
that the New York Havana International
Congress will stir up matters in this countr,
and especially In the Empire state and that
future meetings Of the New York Chess
Association will become more important.
The eminent writer. Leopold uoffer OF
London. thought NJ to make the folloNinG
hciated comments on the Lasker-C -Capa-
blanca controversy:
on April 10 we published q letter by
Or. 1asker to Mr.. Walter Penn Shipley OF
Philadelphia requesting him to serve as
umpire in tho controversy then going or
between Dr. Iaskcr and Capablanca about
) the championship match. the question MIR
Shipley had TO decide being. DOGS the
possession Of the title of champion impose
the obligation upon mo to contnu pego
tiations with CapablanCa IN spite Of his
lc'tcr tn me. which ia intended rs a blow
against my professional honor" We said
at the time thai II this Is the only poin'
TO decide by the umpire it would not he a
difficult task.
MIR. Shipley's decision vas given some
ii me ago. bW We had to hold il over during
the Pocstycn tournament. Mr.. Shipe,
as anticipated ruled; i do NOT see that
ANYTHING has been published hy either
player that should prevent an ainica BILE
understanding or interfere with the pla yers
meeting upon friendly terms in a match
for the worlds championship.
From the published correspondence I do
not see that Capablanca intended 70 charge
YOU with being unfair or to strike a blow
gainst your professional honor. In fact
II IL my belief that he had no such intention
and while the language used in portions oi
Capabanca's reply to your conditions foi
the match may be somewhat undiplomatic
think such portions are capable of yea son
able and not unfrHndly explanation.
will state, as ] have stated before. tina,
while am not anxious To assume the posi-
tion of arbitrator in this matter, nevPrthe-
less il II is the desire OF YOU and Capa blancf
that ! should so act. and you are willing tc
leave the matter in my hands. will do the
best ! can to draw up a set Of rules and
regulations to govern the match, If there