The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-19
CHESS FOR PLAYER,
LOVER AND STUDENT
kOstics Visits Kingston and
Delights Big Assemblagc
at Local Chess Club.
NO MARYLAND CHAMPION

map proper recently when a large as
semblage welcomed the Hungarian blind
fold chess player Boris Kostics at the
Kingston Club. Although Lasker. Mar
shall. Capablanca and other stars OF
the first magnitude have visited the club
In FORMER years such enthusiasm as was
seen when Boris kostics made his de-
but. playing seven games bllndfolded
and simulta neously. never prevailed at
the good old clubhouse before.
When the expert arrived at the depot
In the afternoon he was met by j. T..
Klock, the editor OF the Kingston Free
NAV, and after a light luncheon business
was started at once. AT first Kostics won
"a Few ofhand games against the local
cracks and next he played two games
against consulting parties. He won the
offhand games, won the FIRST consulta-
ton game and drew the second.
Next In order was dinner. and at about
. o'clock In the evening the gala blind
fold exhibition began. Nothing much
happened In the openings. but kostics
could not help making some witty re-
marks now and then when an adversary
was sither too daring or too tiuid.
Rather conservative play" Ajax DEFY
Ing the lightning" and so on, at the
same time stating that a move made by
his adversary was not sound and giving
the reason therefor.
After the performance was well under
way and after about eighteen to twenty
moves had been made lunch was served.
While the players. the spectators and
the star performer were enjoying their
oyster patties. interesting sandwiches
so on the chessmen and boards were
placed in their oriSinal positions on all
the seven boards. and when half
an hour later the players sat down
at the boards. Eostics began repeat
ing the moves made on all the boards
up to the time OF the adjournment and
then gave the positions on all the boards
previous TO the adjournment. This
remarkable feat OF memory was loudly
applauded. whereupon play continued.
with the result that the blindfold player
scored seven victories. BY special re-
quest he commented upon some OF the
games and as one player was anxious to
get the full score Of his game Kostics
at once dictated the game TO him.
j.. II. Adams writes from Buxton.
Md, under date OF December IL. as
follows:
To THE CHESS EpIToR or THE SuN-
Sir: THE story In your issue of Decem-
Der : concerning Mischa Elman's victory
at chess over the Maryland champion
when visiting Baltimore a few weeks
z Is interesting In all respects except
that OF accuracy. In the interest OF
eternal and unshakable truth you ought
now to add that Maryland has no ham-
pion at the present time. the only per-
son having any claim at all to that title
having left the State some time ago
and being now in permanent residence
elsewhere. To settle the question OF the
Maryland championship the baltimore
Chess Association IL now conducting a
tournament. one Of the announcements
In connection Herewith being thai the
players finishing first and second shall
have the right to play n match for the
State championship. That tournament
will be concluded by the first of the
year and the championship match Is ex-
pected 10 follow shortly thereafter.
Il hate to spoil a good story. but"
+. *. Perkins. former Cornell PLAYER,
Is making a strong bid for the cham
pionship OF the Brooklyn Chess Club
and Is now leading In the pending tourna-
ment with a total score Of 7is points
out Of eight games played. He has
finished his schedule I'm the preliminary
rounds and will enter the final stage
with a clear lead OF Ia points over
Alfred Schroeder. who. with e. also
has qualified for the finals, r. T. BLACK.
3h-eis. and J. II. Taft. Jr, "a. are
the only other competitors who are still
In line for qualification. The rule re-
quires that n player 10 enter the fnal
stage must have a score better than
so per cent.
Boys High defeated Manual Training
by I 10 o in the sixth round of the high
school chess championship series II
maintained the lead with a total OF
% games won and / lost. Eastern Dis
trio; follows with ILL., to 5i., Curtis
with - to 4, Commercial with 10 To Z,
De Witt Clinton with IA To = and Eras-
mus and Stuyvesant, each with 10 TO IA.
In the sixth round Curtis beat Bryant
by 4 to 0 and De witt Clinton defeated
Eastern District by .ig TO Il, with
game undecided.
Cornell University has selected the
following team for the annual tourna-
ment OF the Triangular College Chess
League TO be held at the Progressive
Chess Club on December %. ~, % and
80 Jacob Cirossman. 1916, Ag. Herman
Warshow, 1915. Arts j. II. Rerkowitz
1916, Arts Samuel Wilson. 1917, Chem.
Herman Berman, 1917, c. F.
The 81. Marks handicap tournament
AT lne f.illplTe 'ltN mess tlub has he an
concluded. p, Iipschuetz, a brother of
the former United States champion, win
ming first prize with Il srore OF liz
q, Juschke, l4i2-oik. was placed sec.
ond. with Dir, A. F~reundlich, l.-i.
, third. The other prize winners We're II
Hirsch and +. Miller. each HIT.
/, c, Spicehandler. 10; l. Radiu, ois-
/, 1i2, and s. Wintner. IS. The second
section was won by +. w. Lyons with a
score of I3-o. followed by G. T. Post
. III and w Reidclbach, l0ig-4r,
|. Prizes We're also won by pr. :. Burheu.
holz, 9ia-5ia; F. Ehrenpfordt. ST.
6ia T.. J. Chilling and j. Morrison. each
/, 81, and W. Rhinelander, 7i.-1ia.
Arrangements have been concluded for
the playing Of one of the rounds OF TN,
Rice Memorial Chess Masters iourna.
! ment at Yale University in January.
, under the auspices of the Yale Chess
Club and the New Haven Chess Club.
2 The score of a game played by cor.
I r~cspondence between the Russian play
3 ers J. Hehting of Riga and A. Ni.nzo-
witsch Of Petrograd, contested some
dencs OF similarity between tracks n,
I mule found near place of homicide and
: tracks of mule driven in town hy ma ri ,
I with whom defendant was alleged :,
: have been in conspiracy held admissible
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