New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-18
CHESS MASTERS
FIGHT HARD In
FIRST MATCHES
Only Three Games Fin
isled in Opening Round
of Rice Tourney.

Not in the history Of American chess
tournaments since the custom Of hav-
ing time limit was established have
"A set of important games been 50 stub
Lornly contested as the seven played in
the opening round Of the Rice me-
I mortal chess masters tournament,
/ which began az the rooms Of the Brook
/ lyn Chess Club yesterday afternoon and
continued until 10 o'clock IN the even
ing. Four contests were adjourned to
be concluded on Wednesday.
Fourteen experts IN all started play
when the tournament was formally de
clarcd open by II. NJ. Philips, the
president, and W VI. dc Wiser, the
referee. An eleventh hour entry was
that of r. /. Black, the Brooklyn cham
p:on.
The first session OF play lasted four
hours and at : o'clock only one game
he'd been finished. Kupchik, the New
York state champion. winning from
Eosenthal In a Queens Gambit declined
lasting twcnty-one moves. The game
between Bernstein and Hodges went b
forty-six moves. then Bernstein sealed
his move. but Hodges res gned the
CRIME without rCs-lmin, play IN the
evening. Only one more game was de-
,ided lust before tho close Of the even
ing session between Banks and Perkins,
Of the Brooklyn Chess Club. The
draughts champion had caused general
comment BY the accuracy Of his play
and his opponent finally had 90 consent
10 n draw after ffty-onc moves.
The centre of interest. of course, was
the game between Capablanca and
Black. The Cuban adopted his fsvoute
Puy Lopez. making kings side adj
vance with his pawns. supported by his
two knights. TIE play, however,
rhftcd 10 the queens side Of the board
and with % r x 3. the Cuban threat
cred TO win weak pawn. BLACK took
another in exchange and ON his twenty
sixth move captured another pawn
which Capablanca mad left unprotected.
Tho Cuban, however. had rcckoned
, on thig and began 10 draw net around
| the black queen, similar 20 game he
won from DR.. Laskcr i'm rapid tran
sit tourney several years ago IN this
CITY. Black saw the trouble coming
and elected 60 give mp the queen for
rock and bishop. which. with the
extra pawn. gave him good lighting
chance. I'm the evening, Capablanca
succeeded u winning one az blace S
! pieces for another pawn. but in the
process he was bcrcft of all his own
] pawns. Finally. the Cuban had a queen
and knight against Blacks rooA,
bishop and two pawns, giving the lat
4 tor some drawing chances, when the
J game was adjourned along with the
rest.
/ Janowski found Tenenwurzel a worthy
opponent. The French champion OBJ
| tanned a passed queens pawn. but. on
p the other hand. the New Yorker had a
similar pawn on the queens knight
file. kost,c obtained the advantage
4 with Chaies in queens gambit de-
p clined opened by the latter The Ser
bian won his adversary's bishops pawn
on the thirtieth move and later an
ncxed another, but was left with
| bishops of opposite colors, making a
B difficult game.
i Fox and Schroeder discussed another
Ruy Lopez. When play was adjourned
Schroeder had passed pawn on the
queens wing. with slightly better pros.
poets. but Fox was playing IN his old
style and bid fair to force draw.
} The four games viii be finished on
/ Wednesday. This afternoon and even
I ing the second round viii be played
/ at the rooms Of the Manhattan Chess
/ Club. with the players paired As fol-
/ lows:
/ Banks VS. Capablanca. Chajes Us.
/ Tenenwurzel, Fox vs. Perkins. kupchik
vs.. Kostic, Bernstein VS.. Schroeder,
Hodges ". Rosenthal and Janowski vs..
Black.