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CHESS FOR PLAYER,
LOVER AND STUDENT
Eleven Metropolitan Clubs Are
Entered in Tourney for
Championship.
RUSSIAN MASTER ESCAPES

As will he seen from the table given
below eleven clubs OF the metropolis and
vicinity have entered the second annual
championship tournament OF the Metro
politan Chess League and these will be
ready TO play the first round on Novem-
bor T. the final round to be played some
time I'm March or the first week In April.
In addition TO the Manhattan and Pro-
gressive chess clubs, which organizations
are last years twin champions In con-
sequence OF the tie which could not be
broken after a tie match, there are the
Columbia University team, the Queens
Gamblt Association. tho Washington
Heights club Of Manhattan the Brook
lya Chess Club. the Lyceum and Ocean
hin chess clubs of the Borough OF Brook
Ign. the Staten Island Chess Club OF the
Borough OF Richmond and the Newark
Rice and North Jersey chess clubs OF
New Jersey.
The appended table explains itself The
figures denote the number NJ rounds and
IL will he seen that tho Brooklyn Chess
club after having bye in the first round
will meet the Columbia team in the sec
ond North Jersey IT. the third, Lyceum
in the fourth round, and so on.
The table:
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Il dealt and bid q royal. although his
hand is not even good enough for three
spades. there being only one sure trick
in a. A bid two hearts. which doubled.
This IL a bad double. for two reasons.
IL suggests that there In no support for
the royals and risks the opponents shift
ing 10 their side suit. as must have
pretty strong side cards to justify the
heart bid with three honors against him.
Il passed. SO did Y. byt A. thinking
Y was weak In royals and that u could
take care of that suit. went - no
trumps. whercupun V went back D the
royals, biding three, and all passed.
u made three royals without any
trouble. but ms he could not reach game
It did him no good beyond saving As
points on the value OF the rubber. But
this saving II really loss, as they should
have made 2is points by letting \ play
the hearts without doubling Even at
no trumps they would have set him for
so, aces easy.
Against the heart, would probably
lead the ace and Jack Of diamonds 60
a. to shake the lead. II A covers the
Jack Y gets two club discards by refusing
to overtrumr. II 4 refuses to cover the
spade puts Il I'm 20 lead two rounds OF
diamonds y getting the club dlscards and
p winning with the diamond queen %
come through with r trump for a finesse.
Another spade and the king wins. but A
has to discard winning club. This line
OF play would set the contract for four
tricks IL u covers with the queen Of
diamonds and 4 ruffs and leads n spade
Here Ii another example OF a mis- in
doubling that opens the way for the op-
pouents to shift and save themselves:
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r,,,h, No.. ,r,,rr. and Il IA in IN. lead.
"a y r.,, ali eight tricks against any
defonce
rhe .olution is for u to lead tho dia-
n,ond which 4 may either cover or pass.
his MAY on This trick making no difference
IN the -esult II 4 covers Y wins and
i.,d. ,he small diamond. which u may
either trump or pass This gives all the
variations that are provided for In the at
tack
n we suppose that \ cover. the nrst
trick and that r trumps the second.
overtrumps with the Jack and leads
small club. 90 that V may again lie over
4 and pick up both his trumps. y discard
ing the spade ten. The diamond now
forces q decisive discard from v.
"A y trumped the return az the dla-
nond M has already made one discard on
me second round ~ trumps. II this DIS
card was n spade the second discard must
ne heart which will allow u to get ria
~ his remaining srad" and make three
heart tricks. II y gives up III" winning
spade y will make two heart tricks ana
the spade king.
Should refuse 10 run the return ~ the
diamond he must discard. hut Will run
with the jack and Lead I've httl" trump
Just the same. go that may DICK UP a.,
the trumps whether \ covers or not.
getting rid Of the spade ten on the second
trump lead,
The diamond queen VII then plt Is
INTO the same diulcultie' tnat 1aV'u MN
when he runed the second trick. es ms
second discard must b" made netore -
The student VIII see tnat Ns play on tne
irst trick or all makes no dlHerence' "a
VIII orertake the JACK with the queen of
diamonds II does not cover, ana the
ace will ne good over the KING Tor the
third round
While TINS position - rot particularly
d'Mcult TN the form problem II Is
good example OF the poss ib.lities or end
play when person can read the cards
we'll enough to know what i on each side
of him.
Correct solutions from the following
lanes o'e"h' - ~ W" Mares ~ ID
~ ~ ''"'' - ~, - - " ~ ""''''
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THE NEW DIPLOMACY"

1t has taken Charles Frohman two
years TO get William Gillette back to
the stage. When Mr.. Gillette completed
his repertoire season in his own plays
he said to Mr.. Frohman: TN be glad
10 step on the stage again when you get
the part that suits me-" Many parts
have many times been submitted TO Mr..
Gillette, but none has appealed until
Henry Beducierc In Diplomacy"
over n year ago a play produced
at Wyndham's Theatre by Gerald du
Maurier was expected to run, so the
management was thrown into distress
by sudden failure. Hubert Henry
Davies had been commissioned 10 write
a play, the idea of which he had sub
mitted in scenario form. but as it was still
laid out only in outline Mr.. Davies could
not reasonably be expected to relieve
the failure at Wyndham's. So wynd-
hams Theatre was playless. Then STR
Squire Bancroft one day said to Gerald
du Maurier. "Why don't you produce
Diplomacy It's about time"
Du Maurier answered, i've never
seen 1t; but I'll gladly read II II you
VIII send me the manuscript"
Mr.. du Maurler il under the man
agement Of Frank Curzon. lessee ,t
Wyndham's Theatre, Du Maurier read
Diplomacy" and rushed to Mr.. Curzon
saying. 'l've just read Diplomacy and
| think It's a great play. Can't we dc
it,"
Mr.. Curzon answered. 1--WE never seen
It, but I'll read II II you send 1t to me-"
Three hours later Mr.. Curzon was
rushing to find Mr., du Maurier and
when he did he told him, This Is a
great play, Let MS produce it until We
get the Hubert Henry Davies play"
Diplomacy" was produced and moth
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dummy leading In. trump for the ,nes-e

dummy leading the trump for the nnesse.
The natural play for Y would be 10
return the trump to save the diamonds,
but suppose she lets dummy make that
trump on diamond7
II % leads a club Y makes both his
trumps IL Y Is awake to ruff the best
diamond with his losing trump and give
Y another ruff in clubs. II leads "a
heart and A trumps A would get two
trumps for one and lead the club. Y
would force the last trump with a hear.
u would get in with the queen OF trumps
and make the rest OF the diamonds.
Nothing gained. but interesting play.
Here'is an example OF doubling on the
suit alone Instead OF assisting the orig
inal bid. As usual. most Of the bidding Is
bad. but that Is part OF the lesson.
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u dealt and bid heart. \ passed. as
tho double would proDabiy fr!ghten Y
into shift. As 1t happened. would
shift in any case to deny the hearts. cali
ing q royal. This r doubled falling into
the very mistake his partner had been
cereful TO avoid.
Il should hays been able 70 infer that
the hearts must be with A or else Il has
enough TO go back to that suit, taking Y
ont of the double. II lets the royal
bid alone he has n certainty OF saving
game IN his own hand. The only posi-
bs object Of tina double would be to
get A to go no trumps
This A might have done. but the mo-
ment II doubled Il declared his supporting
suit, clubs, and all chances OF As setting
heart contract vanished and his hand Is
worthless for any purpose Realizing his
mistake. y thought he would bluff the
opponents back TO one OF the major suits,
so he doubled the two clubs. This al
most had tina effect OF getting to bid
two hearts. which would at least have
saved the game and rubber at a cost OF
only 30 points
y made four odd ~ doubled clubs. the
manner In which he did 1t being rather
interesting led n spade. which won
with the jack. Following tho usual plan
% trying to get his partner In TO come
through the spades again, r led the heart
on which u put the ace.
y went right back with tho heart and
Y trumped with the seven. Il overtrump-
ing the ace. This IL bad play, az p
does not know what TO lead next. He
should have kept his four trumps and
waited for 10 lead away from the dia-
monds or the spades.
A IL was. took a chance that his
partner had no more spades and led the
ace y trumped with tho king and led
the ten OF trumps, so that dummy took
out two rounds, leaving Is and Y each
with a trump. The king and another
spade let y win with the queen and he
had 20 lead the trump or the diamond.
This let Y make two diamonds and two
spades. four by cards
In this hand there Is no stopping Y
from taking his partner out with royals.
II u goes back to the hearts or calls no
trumps he will get hurt II is left with
the royals he can make two odd but never
! tho game against BIS hand.
| All these hands are examples OF bad
bidding. hut tho point IL that almost all
examples OF good doubling are due to bad
bidding the second hand calling n suit
over a no trumper being a conspicuous
example. Here Is thu most remarkable
instance OF bad bidding that the writer
ever saw. although the double came only
on the fourth round Of the bids:
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ing was needed for two years. II ha.
had the longest continuous run Of an
play ever revived on the English spesl
ing stage. Hubert Henry Davies W.,
told that lie could take his time d.
vcloping the scenario he had submitted
that scenario. by the way subscquenty
grew into the play "Outcast." Lar
summer Charles Frohman secured n
American rights of Diplomacy for tn
third time since the play was original
produced in London. Whether or NJ.
Mr.. Frohman would take the play the
in the height OF its success at WynG-
hams, depended on William G.l,e,..
playing the chief part. When tho !de
WAS put TO Mr.. Gillette he said: 1t -
so long since | have seen Diplomacy
don't remember about II; but I'm CON
PEELED 10 go TO London anyhow, and J. .
cable you"
From London Mr.. Gillette cablcd NJ
Frohman: They have brought D.
plomacy' up TO date for England ana
] am willing to play the part in America
If | am permitted TO bring Diplomacy
up to date for America" Mr.. Frohman
AZ once cabled his assent even with
out the authority of the owners ~
Diplomacy"
So that solves tho mystery as TO the
authorship OF the text of the presen,
Empire Theatre production OF "Diplo-
macy 1t is largely the work Of VIII
lam Gillette. The scene in which Bdron
Stein Is compelled to give up the trac-
ings Is entirely n Gillette scene The
strengthening OF the drama In the last
act by new suspicion fixing Itself
upon Dora is entirely of Mr. Gillette >
cOntrvancc. Tho vitality Of 20 plp-
macy is shown in the fact that II m'u-
ages to get itself ''pon the stage a.
( apparently fifteen year intervals. Il
has had at Mr.. Frohman's hands three
separate productions.
When Diplomacy" was origina 3
/ produced in Paris by Sardou II had an
| other act-a ballroom scene, (which pre-
coded the present first act In this ball
room scene Dora was insulted In the
manner that sho now later narrates to
JuRun When tho piece FIRST came out
in Paris Sir Squire Bancroft. then with
Mrs. Bancroft. an untitled actor, re-
ceived a letter from friend IN Par =
saying that r. good play called Dora
had just had its Paris premiere. SIR
Squire Bancroft invited Clement Scott
then critic of the London D0Uy 7fI'-
graph, TO go 10 Parts with him; and
there Bancroft bought for tNed sum,
without royalties. the English rights OF
Diplomacy" and for a fixed sum, with
out royalties. arranged with Clement
Scott and H. c. Stevenson to make IN
English adaptation of Sardous fren'
text. The first act OF the French ten,
was cut out, tho title of the play was
changed from Dora" to diplomacy
and Immediately II was produced II he
came an enormous success. II has h"1
several revivals since then. and a eA''
revival changes have been made, bring
ing the characters up to date. Al oh'
revival Lady Bancroft agreed to pay
Lady Henry Fatrfdr, and the part was
consequently enlarged
When at Wyudham's Theatre the ~
cent Du Maurler production was mao
Lady Beerbohm Tree played Lao,
HENRY. and again the part was 'ouo " ID
up and grew, Lady Trees sister ME-
Bertha FordycC. plays the same f'
in the present Empire Theatre pI'a1C'
ton.
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u dealt and bid a Toya., A said two
diamonds and Y passed. said two
hearts, u and A passing, Y calling two
royals. Il said three hearts, three
royals. and then II passed waiting for A.
who went four diamonds II there Is
any excuse for such bid tho writer
cannot imagine It.
now proceeds to throw away great
cha nee to set the diamonds by calling
four royals, and II instead OF trusting
for diamonds enough to go game In
hearts doubles,
4 led the short club suit and got the
ruff, II ruling diamonds next and leading
heart. The trump lead was. stopped
with the ace, n ufred the third heart. and
then instead ~ letting dummy ruff the
best club and come through with a trump
led the king, making the jack good
and getting SGT for AIS.
b should have gone on with tho hearts
II a spade IL led he makes Ave odd by
making all three OF AS trumps. II gets
In with a club when the spade queen
holds. rufus dummy with a spade, leads
diamond and trumps II, ruffs dummy
again on spades gets In on the club and
let's dummy run tho third club
After that r can ruff another diamond,
make his ace OF spades and lead tho top
trump. From tho first bid to the last
double tbs hand is u classic In had dec
laratiuns with the solo execution Of Rs
pushing the heart suit, but not far enough,
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There are no trumps ana u Is in the
lead Y and Il must force A and II to
YIN Eve OF these eight tricks in spite Of
any defence,
Although there Ia only one sound key
move. there are a number OF variations in
tho defence, and solVers are warned tina I
II will be necessary for them to show how
10 meet tho important ones.
The distribution OF the cards Is as
follows.
has the seven Ave three OF hearts
eight Ave OF clubs king nine six OF dia-
mands No spades
has the ace king queen deuce oi
hearts; seven OF clubs Jack ten seven
OF diamonds No spades.
II has tie ten cigh, four OF hearts
nine OF clubs; ace and three Of diamonds :
six aud deuce Of spades
has the Jack nine six OF hearts
queen OF cmbs; Ave and four of dia-
>nonds eight and four OF spades
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kings on and Is white TO play and
draw Here IL the authors solution:
White. Black.
3o-2s Ito
2s--is 15-aa
1s-lg 24-2S
1913
Several point out mat there r. another
solution, quito as good, II not so quick
or spectacular. No one found this and
missed the FIRST one, and very few found
both.
3-s 1872 or -
1s--1I FLA
lis 27-s2
1877 32-23
s--l5
1t IL now impossible to win by nrst
position, as white can escape that end
ing.
Some got the draw this way:
30-25 10
IS 1S-1t
16-i1 lis
25--22 1875
lis
Probably the most original suggestion
was this:
as, Is SIS SIS
The tran I'm the problem which caught
a number mapping, was ls-Al' Those
who gave this even In connection with one
OF the sound variations cannot be credited
with correct solutions. as II shows their
analysis OF the position was unsound "
they thought 1s--il would draw. Black
can play 23--al or 20. and catch one OF
the white men before the one on II can
reach the double corner.
Correct solutions from:
James Hyland, T. W. Mcmahon. James
G. Pinkerton, d. A. W, Joseph Elliott, r.
A. Magennis Albert J. Ford, c. l.. n.
James A Green. 7. j. McGarry. j. H.
Soremsc, i. y. Hart. Jr, G. VI. OCon-
nor. Charles y. Hall, Smith y. Allen. John
Wehnan, Robert II. lIiNou, {. L. Lynn,
benjamin simon. John DAILY. J. y, Dc
Grofr, Alfred Il. Driver. Nicholas j.
Zunino. Hobokeu. Joseph Buckley Morse
Jr. Conrad Alhedt. William u. Clarke,
oscar Erickson, n. Ambrose, j.. j.
Walker. Robert T. Blair. J. J. +. Bronx
and c. NJ Bum.
Here is n very neat ending arranged
by n member OF THE SUN Checker Club,
the first OF whose compositions appeared
I'm this column on May OF last year.
This one is interesting In showing how
an inferior force may even things up by
good play.
PROBLEM NO. 800. cuFcKErs.
by l.. s. Hart, 1r.
Black.
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ON the principle that similar figures
have areas proportionate to tina squares
OF their like sides. the length OF the lines
A-G and R-G were first calculated and
the area OF the triangle EDG added to
the required area OF EFcD. The pro-
portion between the tr'angles ABG and
FCG was then worked out on the basis
Of that between their ascertain"d areas
After Ibis II was easy to hud that the
length from d to c was 5iS.7 feet
correct lutious from:
j. q Acton, Albert T. Koch, W. u. l."
r., o. ~. Boston, W. II. O.. T. g. r.
Beresford. j. " WCrtz. Gaetano Ferraro,
r. o. sparrow. Benjamin u. Case. {. VI.
O'Connor. George W. Weir r Hemmett.
Algernon Bray, Frederick Jones' w A.
Buckley and Frank J. Hughes.
Aigernon Bray suggests that farmer
might have figured the contents OF oon-
stantiy diminishing length OF strips. but
II would be q long process. with many
opportunities for error
SOM OUnious ANGLIA.
Here is q little puzzle for geometricaIy
inclined readers OF THE SUN to worry over.
Take any right engled triangle. and as
sumo that tho base or tho perpendicular
is anything you like. Suppose we call II
for q start.
Square this and we get 81. Divide It
by 4 and we have Is, Then the other
sides OF our triangle are one more and
ono less than this nsurs, or Is and II
respectively.
After squaring the base or perpendlcu
lar ws may divide II by 2 Instead OF by
T. The difference between the required
sides will then bs n half, instead or one.
Thus. starting with 8. which squared IL
g., half of which is 80. gives us 81 u for
one side 81 for the other.
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All the Family of IL VIII N"is.

81 LOUIS. Oct. "a Patrick Nr""
OF Alton has qualified for blus rlhpoh n
suffrage stakes for registering tho most
votes when he and his wife and 'A
children aud two sons-n-laW walked 100 >
the Second ward polling place and .''
tered, thirteen votes In all.
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PROBLEMS FOR "SUN" .
READERS TO SOLVE
Ingenious Traps for the Cracks
at Checkers and
at Bridge.
TRICKS OF THE FIGURES

Bridge problem No. 2es the author Of
which IL unknown, presents good ex-
ample OF the positions one so often meets
with at tho card table when one adver-
sary can he lod through and killed, but
the other stlll has the two remaining suits
safe. little more practice at problem
solving might save many trick in these
end games Here IL the distribution:
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0as or two correspondents wrote to say
they expected a correction to appear In
Ins SUN last week to the effect that No
eos was win for white, instead Of only
draw but there is no such luck N
the position As the play by which they
'Nhct'd 20 win was not given it is I'M
l"ss NE 20 point ont It's defects NOW
me d"u.hu'ion Of the pieces il as
2'oWF bD'r, men on /, ~, 20 and - :
Lang on 49, White men Oh T. u and so
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Take any number you like let us say
IL The square OF this number is IA,
required sides are 35 and 81. The prob
lem is TO md rule that will give some
other figures for the required sides, as
il Is obvious that a right angled triangle
with a base or perpendicular of s or i2
may have any number of dimensions
Tor the other sides.
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Latest news from Berlin saws that
several wealthy members OF tho
Berlin Chess Society have come 20 tine
rescue and have placed the club on a
sound financial basis for the present.
The Hamburg G. G. donated 1000 marks
for the war sufferers. spent so marks Tor
tokens OF love for members AT the front and
furnished suppl, OF chessmen and boards
to wounded soldiers in the local hospitals,
whlle the Munich club gave 200 marks for
the war sufferers Tho Arbciter- Schoch-
setunD, however, announces that publ
cation would be suspended during the war
THIS monthly had been in existence for
over three years. and was tho official
organ for twenty-five woykiugmcn's chess
clubs In Germany aud Switzerland.
II Is LEANED from Russian papers that
the Young master Mcchiur. who. Together
with ten or twelve other Russian masters
was kept a prisoner Of war ct Baden
BADEN. managed TO escape and is now on
his way 20 Russia, intending 20 go to the
front e. Snosko-Borowsk another well
known Russian chess master. was severely
wounded a; the front.
The chess world doplores she death Of
two we'll known problem makers The
German master OF the poetry ~ chess
nan iN'' NNfu ~ lAt d-f OF !
recently. and the Swedish compose. pr
Kari Lore0z Jespcrsen. died ON Au2ust :
n the age of SO. Two problems by the
latter will he found below
Nine members OF the Brooklyn Chess
Club. namely. W. c. BlXby. H. r. Black
J. CrowAll. T., Il. Heal. A. S. Jameson, f.
X. Perkins NJ. Schroeder j. H. White
and l., J. Wolff. began play in the annual
championship tourney OF the club last
week.
United States champion Frank j.
Marshall il scheduled to open the season
at the Manhattan Chess Club on October
30 with n simultaneous exhibition.
Appended is the score OF a game played
by the young Russian master Alechnc.
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THAT CARD PROBLEM
While a number OF correspondents nave
pointed out various ways by which the
arrangement. OF 1fty-two cards might he
arrived a., so that by dealing one card
face up ard placing the ncxt one on the
bottom OF the PACK held In the hand, the
whole ftty-two would fall alternately
red and black. no one has been able TO
formulate a rule that would apply to any
number Of cards and the puzzle seems 10
be n matter OF experiment with half the
number Of cards TO be employed the frs,
half being always an alternate arrange.
ment Of colors.
THE SURVIVORS, PUZZLE.
The conditions OF this problem were
that tho location OF the fonc" running
from 10 - should he found without the
use OF tables ~ AIRY kind. aud without
any instruments except tape line and
pegs. This does not. OF course. prevent
tho use OF algebra.
There were a surprising number % mis-
takes made in figuring ont the results,
although the facts u he calculated were
correctly stated. The favOrite dempnstra-
ton OF the solution was to carry out the
complete triangle, thus.
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Auction BRiDGE-Thorough instruction
hv leading exponent. semi private clats
meets afternoon, Hotel MuAlp!n. Terms
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IL IL understood that club having
played last years match with a certain
club AZ home. will This year have 10 play
this particular contest away from home
and vice versa.