New York, NY, United States (22 October-13 November 1900)
1 2 3 4 5 6 Score Place/Prize
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1 Lipschutz •• 11 0½ 11 ½1 11 8 1st $250
2 Showalter 00 •• 1½ 11 11 ½1 7 2nd $150
3 Hodges 1½ 0½ •• 00 ½½ 11 5 3rd $100
4 Hymes 00 00 11 •• ½½ 01 4
5 Baird ½0 00 ½½ ½½ •• 01 3½
6 Marshall 00 ½0 00 10 10 •• 2½
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Format: Double Round-Robin.
Time Control: 35 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves each hour.
Introduction
D. G. Baird has informed the Match and Tournament Committee of the Manhattan Chess Club that he will be ready to play in the sweepstakes masters' tournament, limited to six experts, which will begin on Oct. 15. The contestants will be Baird, Hodges, Hymes, Lipschuetz, Marshall and Showalter. According to the rules agreed upon the entrance fee will be $50. The Manhattan Chess Club will add a good-sized purse, and prizes to the value of at least $250, $100 and $50 will be given to the first three at the finish. Each man will have to meet every other one twice. There will be three rounds a week. On Sundays play will begin in the afternoon, while on week days the contestants will meet in an evening session. Members of the club say that the tournament is one of the most promising affairs ever undertaken by the management and it is creating unusual interest in metropolitan chess circles. (1)
All preparations for the great masters' tournament, to begin at the Manhattan Chess Club on October 15, are now completed. D. G. Baird, Hodges, Hymes, Lipschutz, Marshall and Showalter are to be the contestants. Each man will put up a stake of $50, and the directors of the Manhattan Chess Club will add a purse, so that they will be enabled to offer $250 for the first prize, $150 for the second prize and $100 for third prize. According to the rules, each player will have to play two games with every other contestant, which will make it necessary to compete in ten rounds all told. Three rounds will have to be contested weekly, one on Sunday afternoon and two rounds in evening sessions on week days. The time limit agreed upon is forty moves for the first two hours' play, while all subsequent moves will have to be completed at a time limit of twenty moves to the hour. (2)
Showalter telegraphed to a friend in this city yesterday that he could not leave Georgetown, Ky. before Oct. 20. The masters' tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club, which was scheduled to begin to-morrow, with D. G. Baird, Hodges, Hymes, Lipschuetz, Marshall and Showalter as competitors, will therefore have to be postponed for a week. (3)
Showalter says he will leave Georgetown next Friday, and that he would be ready to begin the tournament with Baird, Hodges, Hymes, Lipschuetz and Marshall next Monday. (4)
A meeting of the players who will take part in the sectangular tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club will take place next Saturday afternoon. While most of the principal rules have already been agreed upon, including the time limit, hours of play and number of prizes, there are some minor regulations, which the committee thinks should be settled by the contestants themselves. Dr. Cohn, Vice-President of the club, announced yesterday that two additional prizes will be offered, one for the most brilliant game in the tournament and another for the player who will make the best score against the prize winners. Play will begin on Monday afternoon. (5)
The tournament is being played for three prizes—first $250, second $150 and third $100. The players themselves paid an entrance fee of $50 each, while the club provided the rest of the money for the prizes. Three rounds will be played every week, names on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the evening and on Saturdays in the afternoon. Unfinished games will be finished off on Sunday afternoons. The time limit has been fixed at thirty-five moves for the first two hours, while subsequent moves have to be made at the rate of twenty moves to the hour. (6)
Missing Information
Hymes had the best score against the prize winners, but no mention is made of that special prize. No mention has been found indicating which game won the brilliancy prize offered by the Manhattan Chess Club.
Sources
(1) New York Sun, 1900.10.02, p5
(2) New York Daily Tribune, 1900.10.02, p5
(3) New York Sun, 1900.10.14, Section 3, p11
(4) New York Sun, 1900.10.16, p5
(5) New York Sun, 1900.10.18, p5
(6) New York Daily Tribune, 1900.10.23, p4
Kibitzing
