New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-30
Adds Three More Games
to Total Against Team
from Princeton.
FACES HARVARD IN
FINAL ROUND TO-DAY
Crimson Players Must Win -Four
Straight Games 10 Earn Title
from Blue and White.

Defeating Princeton by a score OF
games 10 l in the second round
of the annual intercollegiate chess
tournament at the Murray Hill Hotel
yesterday. Columbia retained the lead
with a total Of points out OF pos
sible 3. and will enter the final round
to-day with a point lead over Har-
ward. the chief and now the only rival
of the Blue and White.
The question Of supremacy Will rest
wholly upon the outcome OF the Colum-
Lia-Harvard match. and It will be nee
cssary for the Crimson 20 defeat the
Morningside Heights men by to q IN
order to take first place. This seems
TO be quite beyond the bounds OF prob
ability, in view of the decisive defeats
administered by Columbia TO both Yale
and Princeton.
Harvard. after being successful
against Princeton in the first round,
lest 10 the champion Yale team TO the
tune of PIP to IL games Yesterday.
The close Of the days play left Colum-
bia with 7 points. Harvard with ana
Princeton and Yale with 2.2 each.
Conseduently. Princeton and Yale are
eliminated so far as the championship
is concerned, while their chances OF
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Harvard fares with Columbia.
A. r. Sachs, A. J. Msndell and Z. +.
Korkus won for Columbia over their
Princeton opponents yesterday. Korkus,
of Brooklyn, was again the FIRST TO
score. but his good work was neutral
lied by the unexpected defeat OF the
Columbia captain, H. E. Leede. The
latter was caught mapping in an Evans
Gambit offered by +. 5. Carter, the
senior player for Princeton, who played
a dashing game, and scored after
twenty-four moves.
Three drawn games were recorded az
the first three boards OF the Harvard
Yale match, and the deciding game was
fought out at Board 1, where +. K.
bartlett, the Yale substitute, saved the
Gay for his team by wOrsting A. b.
Bruce. of Cambridge.
At the first board, Leede, OF Colum
bia, was hardly prepared 20 defend an
Evans Gambit, and was taken by sur
prise. He survived the most danger
Gus part Of the opening. with pawn
plus. but Carters attack proved TO be
lasting, and he scored after twenty
four moves.
Sachs opened with the Zukertort
against W B. Cham berlain. of Prince
. ton. BOtn caettQ on inc queen , eluo
of the board, but Sachs was the first 20
get his attack home, and he won after
thirty-siX moves had been recorded.
Mandell and Starr we're well matched
in a Queens Gambit declined. In the
ending Mandell obtained the upper
hand and placed the game in Colum-
bias column after forty-nine moves.
Korkus. first 20 finish his game. en-
countered a French Defence, and at his
thirteenth turn offered a bishop for
two pawns. J. r. Chamberlain dared
not accept, and played on with pawn
minus Four moves later. however, he
made a mscalculation and lost knight
clear. The former Boys High captain
was thus left with an overwhelming at
tack, and he forced the resignation Of
the Princeton man after twenty-five
moves
In the Harvard-Yalc match Beers and
Quarles discussing a Ruy Lopez, eX-
changed queens on the eighth move. 4
we'll played game ended IN q draw after
thirty-one moves. Ellenberger and
job drew a Vienna Opening after fifty
one moves, while Johnson and Levin
son drew a Ruy Lopez in thirty-eight
moves.
Bartlett, Of Princeton, had the white
side Of a Queens Gambit declined
against Bruce. of Harvard. and, estab-
fishing an advantage by clever play IN
the middle stage of the game. scored
after thrty-fve moves.
Following is summary Of the play:
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