John Finan Barry, 1895

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February 12 1895

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, February 12, 1895

Chess by Correspondence.
Interesting Game in Progress Between Brooklyn and Boston.
The correspondence match, Boston Chess club vs. Brooklyn chess club, is resulting in two highly interesting games and the scores to date, with diagrams are appended. The correspondence is conducted on the part of the Boston chess club by John F. Barry and E. L. Dresel. Mr. Barry is acknowledged to be the strongest chess player in New England and deserves his reputation. The Brooklyn end of the match is in the hands of R. F. Bradford, the secretary of Brooklyn Chess club, well known as a blindfold player of great strength, and John C. Tatum, the captain of the Brooklyn Chess club team of the Metropolitan league. Boston has the attack in game I, an Evans gambit, and Brooklyn has the attack in game II, a bishop's gambit.

John Finan Barry and E. L. Dresel (Boston Chess Club) vs. (Brooklyn Chess Club) R. F. Bradford and John C. Tatum

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-B4 B-B4 4. R-N4 BxP ?? KxB should be next move 5. P-B3 B-R4 6. O-O P-Q3 7. P-Q4 B-Q2 8. Q-N3 Q-K2 9. PxP PxP 10. B-R3 Q-B3 11. B-N5 KN-K2 12. R-Q P-QR3 13. KBxQN BxB 14. QN-Q2 P-QN4 15. B-B5 B-N3 16. BxB PxB 17. P-R4 O-O

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Rg1 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2

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