AApril 13 1916
The Kalispell Journal, Kalispell, Montana, Thursday, April 13, 1916
Chess Congress.
The chess masters' tourney in New York city the coming winter is in honor of the Rice gambit. It is twenty yeas since Isaac Rice, the scholar, musician and patron of the royal game of chess invented this opening which bears his name. The tourney will begin Jan. 8, the opening round being scheduled to be played at the Manhattan Chess club. Invitations have been sent to a group of the foremost chess players. Including J. R. Capablanca of Havana, F. J. Marshall of New York, A. A. Alechine of Petrograd, Boris Kostic of Budapest, Edouard Lasker of Chicago, J. W. Showalter of Georgetown, E. B. Jefferson of Memphis, N. T. Whittaker of Washington. N. W. Banks of Detroit, who recently challenged Marshall and others of the leading American chess players. Professor Rice has consented to act as president of the congress and has donated $1000 to be given as prizes.
