New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-14
|CHESS LEAGUE
COMPLETES PLANS
FOR TOURNAMENT
Teams of Eight Men Each from
Thirteen Clubs to Play for
Local Title.
MATCH OPENS ON JANUARY 10
PLAYERS Show Keen Interest, and
Some Strong Combinations
Are Being Formed.

Are being TOTIHeu.
Thirteen chess clubs Of greater New
York and New Jersey sent their delegates
10 the Manhattan Chess Club on Thursday
evening. In order to prepare tho schedule
for the coming team matches which are
TO determine the championship of the
newly organized Metropolitan Chess
League. In full earnest and after care
fully discussing all the points essential 70
the success OF the undertaking, they came
TO terms prepared the schedule OF all the
thirteen rounds and decided to begin the
tournament. In which each club VIII Dc
represented by team Of eight men, on
January 10. In the appended table the
reader will find the pairing for all the
rounds of the tournament, and he VIII
also see whether a club will have to play
at home or away in each particular round.
In the latter case Roman figure Is In
serted, while in the former Gothic hgure
shows that the club plays at home. For
instance. Brooklyn plays Hudson County,
I.yceum, Manhattan Progressive, queen 3
Gambit and Rice, OF Newark. at home IN
the twelfth, fifth. seventh. tenth first ana
third rounds, respectively, and Columbia
Eastern District Ocean Hill. Rice, Of New
York: Staten Island and Washington
Heights away from home I'm the sixth'
eighth, fourth, thirteenth. eleventh ana
second rounds. respectively.
The Brooklyn Chess Club having start
ed TO set the ball rolling as re-
CARDS the annual championship tour
nament by getting eight men in line
for the affair the Manhattan Chess
Club followed suit last week. when
Il was found that there were fourteen
competitors This week the Rice Chess
club. AZ well as the Progressive CHESS
Club. will begin their annual events. when
IL Is expected that in each OF these CLUBS
the strongest members VIII he ready TO
begin operations Much progress has been
made in the Brooklyn Chess Club. where
J. H. Taft. IT,. is tied with Schroderd"F'
each Of these men having won five games
ana lost two. Former Champion BLACK
also has lost two games, but he has won
only four games 50 far. Next come Cass
and Rubul. with 81 each. Farley and
Heal. with 3 each, and White. with >. In
asmuch as each man viii have TO play
two games with every other man, there
may be- many changes in the position OF
the players before the anal round Is
played
The championship tournament OF the
Manhattan Chess CLUB ~ likely 70 prove
very interesting through a. Kupchik's
participation IN the contest. This player
recently Joined the club. and IN addition
10 Magnus Smith. the champion OF the
club. such we'll known players as Major
j. VI Ianham. otto ROething, J. Rosen-
thai. q. T.. Northroup. the two former
BostOnlans. and ex-Harvard champions
Clark and Mitchell together with men
like Beynon. Bowen. DR.. Adair and Pro-
fessor Lichtenberg, are competing In this
tournament Kupchik assumed the lead
by winning three games straight BY
curious coincidence the two favorltes.
Smith and Kupchik. Will not meet until
the fnal round. scheduled for January r.
Great efforts have been made in the
Rice Chess club TO secure "A very strong
team for the championship tournament
II ~ expected that \. Marder 4. kup-
chlk. oscar Chaies. Professor Jacques
Grommer, J. Roscuthal. Or. freudlich,
II. VI. Phillips. J. TenenwarZel and many
other we'll known and strong metropoli-
tan PLAYERS will be found I'm the ring. and
it IL even rumored that the Bohemian
champion, Duras as we'll as Charles
Jane. will participate.
At n meeting OF the directors OF the
Progressive Chess club. held last
Wednesday evening. II was decided TO
begin the annual championship tourna-
ment next week, when, I'm addition 10
Jaffe. ChaIes and Kupchik. all the
strongest players of the club are expected
10 come I'm line. IL will thus be seen thas
Kupchik will be "a competitor in every
one OF the championship tournaments
PLAYED In the Manhattan, Rice and Pro
gressiye Chess clubs. The same may be
the case with Otto Roethng. while Chajes
will play IN both the Rice and Pro-
grcssivc Chess clubs.
Following IS the score OF game played
at Carlsbad recently between the Ameri-
can chess player. n. w. Fox. formerly or
this city and Washington, and now on
the staff OF a New York paper, stationed
at Berlin, and Tietz. manager of the
Carlsbad international tournament:
pIry LOPEZ