The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
CHESS FOR PLAYER,
LOVER AND STUDENT
Havana International Congress
Must Be Considered
Postponed.
MAYOR INFORMS MANAGER
Capablanca Beats Alechin and
BOrowski in Matches at
st. Petersburg.

Freyro Fernando de Andrade, the Mayor
Of Havana, writes to the manager in
New York to the effect that he ID OBJ
liged to postpone the date Of the inter-
national chess congress. He says that
the difficulty Of getting a special budget
approved In time could not be overcome
and that there is no hope at present
to get 1t approved in the near future.
49," he goes on to say in his letter.
I'VE have to give II up for the present.
as without that budget approved there
Is not any possibility for the chess tour
naments organization on the date
settled"
A final attempt was made by the New
York manager TO bring about the con-
gress by writing TO tho President Of the
| Cuban Republic. 1t was stated In the
letter that the President and others in
| terested in the scheme would have until
| tomorrow to cable whether or not the
congress could be opened on February
after all. No answer has been re-
| ceived so far and there Ia still a slim
chance of things being arranged accord
ing to schedule.
| Meanwhile tho Cuban champion, ]. r.
/ >"pociohNoV ociHs kept pretty Ouby
at the Chess Club In St Petersburg. In
addition to being scheduled to give a
simultaneous exhibition he WAS engaged
TO play hve serious games against the
strongest members Of the club. So far
he Is reported to have played two games,
| one against Il. s. Snosko- Borowski and
the other against A. Alechin. In the
first named game he played the blacks
| against a Ruy Lopez and came out a
1 VICTOR l..
other game he played a Queens gambit,
| which Aechin declined to accept. After
twenty-nine moves the Cuban also won
| this game.
| The other day champion DIR. E. Lasker
| was interviewed regarding the strength
OF Capablanca and Rubinstein, when he
was said to have made the following
| comments:
| THE Cuban IL without doubt a won
derfully talented and brilliant chess
player. To say anything about his per-
unfortunately never met him over the
board In serious play. He Is a splendid
practitioner and he also works hard at
| analysing In spite Of this believe there
are certain indications that his devel-
opment as . player may be practically
considered closed. OF course he Ia still
| young man-Only % years OF age-uu,
L
he became mature at an early age. This
| circumstance makes him at least fiyr
years older. Moreover. II Is we'll known
that ne began playing chess at the age of
- years" About Rubinstein. whom he
considers the strongest living master. he
1T Is difficult and perhaps incautious
to make definite statement about such
question. Anyhow. I consider Il my
honest opinion that Rubinstein Is most
entitled to play against me in a match
for the championship of the world. His
style Is of extraordinary strength and his
theoretical knowledge of the game cannot
be surpassed by any other living player
II am convinced that the fight between
Rubnstein and myself will be "a very
/ stubborn one and that neither he nor |
will easily be winner Of the match.
I'm all probability we shall not begin
the match before the fall of this year as
most OF the clubs that desire us TO play
games are most anxious to have the
| games played in fall and winter. I be-
lieve IL will take fully three months 10
play the twenty scheduled games. Frank
fort on the Main. Lodz and Moscow have
already made arrangements for games
and ] have no doubt that arrangements
viii also be concluded with Berlin and
Warsaw. / hope to be able to announce
a treasurer very soon and the chess play
ers the world over will then be asked tc
contribute their shares toward the ex.
penditure by subscribing TO the book OF
the games. which will be printed In Ger
man and Russian as wei, as In English
provided that the requisite number OF
subscribers in English speaking countrie.
will forward their subscriptions"
Frank J. Marshall, United States chess
champion. and A. Kupchik, leader in tn,
| annual championship tournament. ~
| vided the first and second prizes In tn,
Manhattan Chess Clubs rapid transi
| tournament for prizes donated by Arts
, tides Martinez. president OF the club
, After a knockout preliminary contest n
| fifteen seconds a move. which eliminated
!. eight of the entries, round robin tour
ney under a time limit Of ten seconds
| was played
Marshall and kupchik tied at 5La I,
| ! u, the two winners drawing their owl
| game. Marshall lost game TO Rosen
thai and Kupchk one to kreymborg.
Jaffe. with points, won the third prize
| Other scores: l.. Rosen and j. Rosenthal
each 3ta NJ, Hago, 3; A. +. Kreymborl
and c. T. Armstrong. each ". Thos,
| eliminated We're e. l.. Northrup. A
Ettlinger, T.. p. Beynon, s, Fuered, G.
Beihoff. J. NJ. Hanham, d. Robinson an,
]. Hopkins.
In the championship tournament OF tn
club a. Kupchik. with five straight wins
still holds his advantage. followed by NJ
Smith. q. l.. Northrup, Il. p. Kenyon an,
J. Rosenthal. Tho scores to date:
Players. Won Lost. Players. Won Los,
ss mi;h 3 9 Pr j. bei Aaslr : !
+ Ss%sar = kk'sf'''S aisss,l, "a
j. T. Eo Slarsi.s ! fRS s.sn,, % 3