AOctober 19 1913
The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, Sunday, October 19, 1913
Game of Chess Commercialized.
Chess editors in Germany declare that the game of chess has been commercialized under American influences and they claim a striking illustration of this in the match for the championship of the world that has just been arranged between Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who lived for some years in New York, and Akiba Rubinstein, the foremost player of Russia.
According to the financial plans for the match it is expected that the two players will divide nearly $10,000 (adjusted for a century, and one decade of inflation, comes to $307,198.99 in 2023) between them. Dr. Lasker is now corresponding with some of the principal German chess clubs, soliciting their co-operation. He offers to have three games played in the rooms of any club that will contribute about $1,500 in return for this honor.
German writers contrast the Lasker-Rubenstein match with the one played at Paris in 1858 between Paul Morphy and Adolf Anderssen, the German champion of that day. Anderssen, who was professor in a prepatory school at Breslau, was willing to rush to Paris during his brief Christmas holidays to play eleven games with Morphy, although there was no money staked on either side. On the other hand, Lasker and Rubinstein will have nearly a year to prepare for their great struggle, and will last for three months.
