The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-27

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To, lost. 1Lii,I |5l,bt, 81
The Manhattan Brooklyn match IN the
final round was looked upon as the
most important contest Of tho twenty
ono. Try as they would. the representa-
tives OF tho Manhattan Chess tlub had
almost always to play second fiddle to
the Brooklyn club In any encounter on
eight boards. and In order to make
things douhlv sure they paid the Erook-
Ign club tho compliment or adding 20
their team three grand masters of inter
national rerown. namely, ~capihlunoa.
~Januvski and Marshall To tho tsrzctt
were added a. Kupdhik. |. " Meyer.
G Schucidcr. J Rossn.hal and |. RoScu.
and the result Of the encounter wds
never In doubt. The only question under
consideration WIS by iow many points
the mon across the great bridge would
have 20 20 under. L.. r.. E,ack. \. G..
Cass and II Zirn managed to hold their
own and drew their games. but the rest
81 the men suffered defeat. and SO N.
final score was CT. 20 "a In favor Of
III. Manhattans. Tho match over. TN"
Mauha.tans at once began analyZiuC
the score. and they found mat they
could have won the match even with
out tho assistance OF the three grand
masters. That Nigh have come about.
but ANALYSTS should not forget that
| .H..,. q, sa,,,,ht,D IatLiny IN IN, sr,n..'a
Of "A team when the men go to the
boards with certain defeat staring into
their faces. Moreover, inasmuch as the
Brooklyrites counted upon three lost
points for sure. the other men had dourlv
to cNcrt themselves &" save the day.
They sai 20 pll" for wi"s, ~ by draw
ing tho match wpuid nav" been lost
anyhow.
However. IN. men from Brooklyn
need not to he ashamed AZ the results
so fay recorded. They won The cham
pioush'p tw~enty-orc years ago. when th"
Metropolitan Chess League was frst es-
tablished. After ono season the league
went into eternity ard was only r"cs.
tahl she'd three years ago.
Again tho B~pohly mites practically
won tho championship tire" years ago.
but bv waving a point 90 'N" ~i'roGr"s-
siyc chess club. the Manhattan AID
7 7 Z. AhANH wv AH'.NH o.. fNNN 1000.
| abe e. break 'he ito h' a SPECIALLY ar
ranged match. Last year. However, tn"
BROOKLYN Chess Club again won The
championship nv beating both the Man
haitian and Progressive chess clutS.
The match OF Ave games IN between
The loca. player Charles Jafrc and the
E-auco-po, sh expert l.. Janowski was
lr'v begun on Friday afternoon, and
there is not the slightest douht that this
contest will greatly interest metropolitan
chess PLAYERS. i - generally believed
that tho Partisan WI win the bout, hut
me lat'cr's most ardent admirers main
tain that he VII have To- play his best
chess n orle- TO disros" of Ja~c, who
"a looked upon AS Orc OF IN" most Ian
rerous men In serious contests, II is
well remembered that out 80 four ame
Ianpwski and Jaffe had engaged In N"
latter won two and drew two. ON the
other hand. Il must he taken into con-
sidcra.ion that lanowski was the hero
~. several International tournaments.
illt he won and lost one match 20 Mar
shall ard that I've made a draw WIZ
I.AsNr' Iva a series 90 match games
played IN Paris. In fl'', there is NJ
more uncertain quantity ;han lar 'wsNi,
'ai, - to SAY, he j. a player who 't'
greatly excel one day and play very
iudiTorently the next. II all depends
upon his disposition. or course, this
aprlies, IN a sense, to all chess masters.
Owing 10 tho lack Of interest and sra
ing that a big tournament has just beer
concluded. the annua championship N
the New York state Chess Association
was not PLAYED on Wash'nCton's Birth
lov his wear. Nj sorts OF schemes are
in the air 10 bring about this event sonN
time during the present season. hu'
nothing definite "a he announced for
the present, ~ the local clubs, how
eyer. things were pretty lively on TUGS,
daN As rlrlv as 20 o'clock IN the morn
ing n round robin rapid transit tourua.
mont Mas PLAYED at the Manhattan
chess club. and with \. Schroeder. Il
T.. Black, T.. RauhitSrhok and T.. AT
srhu. I'm the ring, gallant Major j
Moore IIlrhdm carried away tho INST
prize hy heating an the players. In the
afternoon the rnirf contest was q major
solving tourney, conducted by Frank
.Iiuct. the wei known composer. Leon
ard T.. Never, who solved all the prob
IONS IN ore hour and thir1v-onc min.
ut.S won Tia, iIrSt prize, thereby duuli-
eating his performance Of last year
His brother. Arthur :. Meyer. won IA,
second pr.Zc. !. bernstein was place.
third and \. Schroeder and i. X Per
kius divided the next two price, The
| ll'lON SOWING tourney WhS NbIl ny W IL
tor Maluwcn. Edwin Gluck was place,
second and A., Ia2insk third
In the ~lir@,re city Chess = II a simi'
lar contcs, rooN place, resulting as r"l'
lows. u. \ Frcpud lvh. first pri2"
g. Harry U-rec}. second T. lipSrhut2
? third sidney lljrsch and Signuui col,
divided fourth prize. The other conn,
|pctjtors were +. W Lyons, VI i. Keys
W, i. Trcincr, \, simon. " p"mhy, L
1 | IHI.-,.g,,lt n, n Int,. and = I
= Murphy.
a After eight rounds the scores 90 III
, winter handicap of the Empire CT,
/; Chess club read as fol'uws;
. First Sectior-l, itadiu and \, l'ric
= denhtit. Il, = each .. S~n'"l1u,l-r. :
, Schuldeufrci, $. II rsc.l, \ simon, y
Nelson and V Iic'dolh1ch, &, . ca.h; J
= llrsrhfeld, ~. ST. ! N"'on and VI
i. Keys. 4, I each NJ, benny, =, = +
I W. Lyons, /, :; H. Shariro, u, \,
Second Section-W. Thompson, 5, 0