New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
CHESS BOOMS ABROAD;
MANY MATCHES PLAYED
Game FIourishing in All Parts
of England, While Germany
Shows Its Devotion.
STARS DELIVER LECTURES
Capablanca to Prolong Stay in
Berlin to Get Players for
Forthcoming Congress
at Havana.

European exchanges which came 10
hand last week report much activity
everywhere. In the City Of London Chess
club one hundred members are engaged
in their annual championship and class
tournament. while twenty metropolitan
chess clubs are weekly engaged in league
team matches. not to speak OF the nu-
merous simultaneous exhibitions given
by masters in London and the provinces
where chess is hourishing in every city,
town and hamlet.
Similar is the state Of affairs through
out Germany, Austria and Russia. Ger
many. as well as Austria, has taken
kindly 10 lectures given by prominent
masters. Emanuel Lasker. who is now
travelling in the southern part Of Ger
many. giving many exhibitions of stimuli
taneous play, has made 1t rule 10 begin
each of his engagements at the various
.lubs with lecture on subjects such as
Chess and Humanity" THE Worlds
Championship" and other interesting
themes. At Vienna the local star Marco,
IS filing an engagement at the scientific
Institute Crania with a series Of six lect-
ures on THE Art of Chess"
Much interest also centred in the Aus
.rian metropolis in a match played at
the Vienna Chess Club between DR..
a,1 ID chi OP
Much to the surprise OF the initiated ones,
the former came out a winner. with 512
to 2ih games. In connection with this
match IT must be stated that an agree
ment was entered upon according TO
which the first four drawn games were
not to count at all. The men played
,welve games.
The Cuban champion, j. r. Capablanca,
who left this city some time ago, In order
10 go TO his post at the Cuban Consulate
Mt st. Petersburg. cabled from Berlin
last week 10 THE American Chess Bulle-
tin" that he had obtained an additional
leave of absence and that he intends
staying another fortnight IN Berlin for
the purpose of concluding arrangements
with German and Austrian players who
are to play in the forthcoming Havana
international tournament. Meanwhile the
Mayor of Havana, General Freyre de
Andrade. informed the manager of the
tournament that, although $4,000 has
been appropriated for the international
congress, nothing official can be given
out for the present. as certain forms
have to be gone through. He made a
similar statement to a committee COM
posed Of the president Of the Havana
Chess Club and three other influential
members of that club when the said COM
mlttee called at the Mayors office in
order to discuss final arrangements for
the congress matter
For the annual championship tourna-
ment of the Manhattan Chess club,
which is to begin next month, President
Martinez has offered a special prize Of
s25 for the best game in the tournament,
while Isaac l.. Rice. the president of the
Rice Chess Club. has promised sl25 for
five prizes in a similar contest. which is
10 be begun early next month In the Rice
Chess Club.
Max Behnisch, in command of the Yep
peln alrship, which was destroyed on Oc-
tober H. at Johannisthal, was one of the
twenty-eight unfortunate men killed.
Behnisch was known at Berlin as we'll as
at Kiel as a strong chess player. and but
for the lack of practice would have
reached the master class.
on December IA. last year, DR. Emanuel
Lasker gave a simultaneous exhibition at
the Berlin Chess Society, on which occa-
sion he lost only one game. Behnisch
won that particular game, the score of
which is herewith appended