Evening star., 1916-10-15
OFFICERS ELECTED
BY CAPITAL CLUB
E. B. Adams Chosen for Presi-
dency of Local Chess
Organization.
SH0WALTER IN BIG MATCH

At the annual meeting of the Capital
E. B. Adams was elected president: Mr..
Roesch. vice president: Mr.. Verhoff.
secretary-treasurer, and Messrs. Nun
dell. Pasch. Faulkner, Clayton and
Owen members of the executive COM
mittee. Mr.. Adams Is one Of the most
popular and widely known chess play
ers in this section of the country, i
dyed in -the-wool chess fan with a ven-
Grafton for the Evans Gambit verging
upon idolatry. Under his able and en-
thusiastic direction the Capital City
Club should have a year of unprece-
dented prosperity.
The first game of a match between
+. K. Perkins and A. Schroeder for the
Class A captaincy Of the Brooklyn
Chess Club was adjourned after forty
nine moves last Tuesday evening. with
Schroeder a pawn to the good. These
short matches between the Brooklyn
masters furnish some of the most in
teresting games published in the chess
columns Of the newspapers of this
country.
Janowski and Showa1ter have at last
definitely decided to meet in a ma tch
to be played at Lexington, Ky. Play
will begin November 10 next, and the
stakes will be $500 a side, the winner
of the first seven games to take the
whole pot. The time limit will be
flat fifteen moves an hour Should
Showalter succeed in vaneuishing the
French champion he will be the logical
challenger for the laurels of United
States championship, now worn by
Frank Marshall.
The following self-explanatory cir
cular letter has been sent by the Amer
lean Chess Bulletin to all the chess
clubs in the country:
I'VE have been instructed by Mrs.
Rice. widow of Prof. Isaac L. Rice. to
inform your club that the international
and British universities have hereto
fore played. now Is offered for gen
eral competition among the chess as
sociations. leagues and clubs of the
United States, Canada and Cuba.
The plan, submitted herewith for
the consideration of your organiza-
tion. and which is subject to revision
In accordance with suggestions from
all interested parties, who are hereby
invited to contribute their IDEAS is
briefly as follows:
play will be conducted either over
he-board, by telephone or by tele-
graph, as circumstances or preferences
may dictate, and entries will be di-
south, east and west. each section to
series on the so-calle0
'knDckout' principle, after which there
Will be semi final round between
to be followed by a final match be-
tween the two surviving teams for
custody of the trophy for one year.
The right of permanent possession
of the trophy shall be vested in !
the team winning four years consecu
wears n-cOnEecu- l.
lively.
TT is suggested that smaller clubs. !
related or having a
common Interest, such as the college
leagues, might combine for the pur-
pose of creating teams able to make |
a good showing in the strong COM |
pany likely to make bid for the |
coveted prize. The participation OF !
a associations or leagues in a given dis |
trict would he no bar to the entry of |
clubs in the same district and affiliated |
with said associations or leagues, pro- !
vided it be understood that In no in |
stance will players be permitted to be |
members of more than one team in the !
same annual series.
Grand masters-that is to say, pro-
fessionals who have attained high !
rank In international chess, will be
barred from participation in these |
Teams will consist of six to
ten players. according to mutual agree
nent, which may be arrived at after |
iue discussion: Play to be conducted !
ander Il time limit of from fifteen to
twenty moves an hour. in accordance
with a majority vote of the competing
units.
after receipt of the entries it will |;
be possible to draft a working set of
rules satisfactory to the views ex-
pressed.
your club is urged to enter and
submit suggestions without delay"
The championship Of the famed city
If London Chess Club has this year
,een won by Germann-Theodore Ger
mann, in fact-but the bitterness of
his dose for old John Bull is sweeten-
ID by the fact that. despite his name
Mr.. Germann 10 q Russian. Following
s the score of one of his games with
r. c. Griffith, former champion. with