AJuly 18 1910
New-York Tribune, New York, New York, Monday, July 18, 1910
Big Chess Congress Opens
Strong Field Draws Numbers for Play Which Begins To-day.
Hamburg, July 17. The International congress under the auspices of the German Chess Association, opened here this morning, when the following strong field presented itself to the committee ready to begin play in the international tourney tomorrow America—Frank J. Marshall, champion of he United States. Germany—F. Jacob, E. John, F. Koehnlein, S. P. Leonhardt, R. Spielmann and R. Teichmann. Austria—Carl Schlechter, champion; O. Duras and S. Tartakower. Russia—A. Alekhine, F. J. Dus-Chotimirsky, A. Nimzowitsch and G. S. Salwe. England—F. D. Yates; Leo Forgacz, Hungary, and A. Speijer, Holland, eighteen in all.
After disposing of all business matters in connection with the forthcoming contests and the election of officers for the ensuing year, the eighteen masters were called upon to draw their respective numbers, in order to ascertain the schedule for all seventeen rounds, according to the Berger tables.
Tartakower drew No. 1; Marshall, 2; Salwe, 3, and Schlechter, Jacob, Speijer, Koehnlein, Dus-Chotomirsky, Leonhardt, Spielmann, John, Alekhine and Yates the figures from 4 to 16, Forgacz and Tarrasch drawing 17 and 18 respectively.
July 21 1910
New-York Tribune, New York, New York, Thursday, July 21, 1910
Marshall Wins A Game
Beats Tarrasch, the German Champion, at Chess.
[By Cable to The Tribune]
Hamburg, July 20.—Frank J. Marshall, the American champion, won his game in the third round of the international tournament here to-day by defeating the German champion, Tarrasch. Schlechter now leads in the tournament, having half point the advantage over Salwe.
Salwe proved too much for Tartakower, who made a slip and lost the game in short order, while Forgacz did not come up to expectations, Schlechter winning in fine style. The other results were: Jacob lost to Yates, Speijer went down before Alekhine, who, by the way, is a youth of only eighteen years; Koehnlein suffered defeat at the hands of John, Chotimirski lost to Teichmann and Leonhardt to Nimzowitsch, while Spielmann and Duras drew their games. The standing to date follows.
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The players will face each other in the fourth round as follows: Nimzowitsch vs. Spielmann, Teichmann vs. Leonhardt, John vs. Chotimirski, Alekhine vs. Koehnlein, Yates vs. Speijer and Tarrasch vs. Duras.
August 07 1910
The Fresno Morning Republican, Fresno, California, Sunday, August 07, 1910
Austrian Champion Wins Chess Title
Hamburg, Aug. 6.—The International chess tournament begun in this city on July 18, ended today when the Austrian champion Carl Schlechter captured first prize with 11½ games won. The other best scores were Duras, 11; Nimzowitsch 10½ Spielmann, 10; Marshall, 9½; Techman, 9½; Alekhine, 8½; Chotimirski, 8½; Forgacz, 8, Tarrasch, 8.
