A1909
St. Petersburg 1909
Upper Row: Erich Cohn, Leo Forgács, Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky, Rudolph Spielmann.
Middle Row: Sergey Nikolaevich von Freymann, Oldrich Duras, A. M. Levin, S. Znosko-Borovsky, J. Sossnitsky, E. P. Fuerst Demidow San Donato, P. P. Saburow, V. Tschudowski, Dr Julius Perlis, Savielly Tartakower, Richard Teichmann.
Front Row: Milan Vidmar, Dr. Ossip Bernstein, Dr. Emmanuel Lasker, Amos Burn, Carl Schlecter, Akiba Rubinstein, Jacques Mieses, Georg Salwe, Abraham Speijer.
Not Pictured: Fyodor Dus Chotimirski, Vladimir Nenarokow. (Identification source)
January 17 1909
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Sunday, January 17, 1909
Record By Capablanca
Cuban Wonder Won Thirty Chess Games in Exhibition at Schenectady.
A record for simultaneous chess play was established by Jose R. Capablanca, in Schenectady, N.Y., where he played against thirty players at the same time and made a clean sweep on all the boards. This performance opened the eyes of the natives, who had never witnessed the like before. The local press was unanimous referring to the young Cuban as the most likely successor to Dr. Emanuel Lasker, the champion.
Playing in Troy, he won altogether twenty-five games without losing one.”
Lasker Vs. Schlechter. “Dr. Lasker and Carl Schlechter have come to the following tentative understanding with regard to their match for the championship of the world, to be played by them in the fall and winter of 1909. The match to consist of thirty games, and the victor to be the winner of a majority of at least two games. The stakes to be the same as in the Lasker-Marshall match. Dr. Lasker to fix place and date of meeting, after giving a month's notice, and he to carry on all negotiations, in return for which ownership in the games to be vested solely in him.”
Brooklyn vs. Manhattan
The Manhattan Chess Club has accepted the challenge of the Brooklyn Chess Club to play a return match at the rooms of the latter, 4 Court square, on February 12. There will be sixteen players on a side.
November 26 1909
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, November 26, 1909
Lasker Still Supreme Among Chess Masters
Janowski of Paris Added to the Champion's List of Redoubtable Victims.
Once again has Dr. Emanuel Lasker, the chess champion, proven that he is practically invincible by defeating D. Janowski, the French champion, in the series of ten games which has been concluded at Paris, resulting in a one-sided victory for the former by the score of 7 games to 1, with 2 drawn. The only game won by Janowski was the sixth, and in this the champion, playing black, experimented with the defense to the Four Knights' opening. However, he adopted the same fourth move in the eighth game, and succeeded in drawing it. The result of the series was a surprise and disappointment to the admirers of Janowski, who had been much encouraged by the result of the series of four games played in Paris last winter, and which gave each two wins.
Interest will now center upon the forthcoming match for the world's championship with Dr. Lasker and Carl Schlechter of Vienna, Austrian champion, which will be played in sections at Vienna, Berlin, Munich, St. Petersburg, and, possibly, also at London. Thirty games will be contested, according to the conditions which the principals have signed.
Dr. Lasker has now defeated decisively Steinitz, Marshall, Dr. Tarrasch and Janowski, although the encounter with the Parisian was not in the nature of a match, and not for the title, as in the case of each of the other opponents. Other possible aspirants for the title are G. Maroczy of Hungary, A. Rubinstein of Russia, and, in due course, Jose R. Capablanca, Cuban champion and conqueror of Marshall.
In the seventh Lasker-Janowski game, details of which are at hand, honors were even throughout the middle game, Janowski making a number of tricky moves with his rook, which required care on the part of the champion. On the fifty-second move the latter in turn initiated a combination with a move of his rook, the effects of which his opponent failed to appreciate. The outcome was that Dr. Lasker won a pawn prettily three moves later, and then got his adversary into a mating-net, from which he could not escape without a further sacrifice of the exchange. In the eighth game Dr. Lasker was again cramped in the opening, but freed his game by energetic measures. Finally, he gave up a bishop, and, occupying the open KB file with both rooks, forced a draw by perpetual check.
With the intention, no doubt, of publishing the entire set of games for the United States championship in book form, F.J. Marshall, the Brooklyn master, who has been recovering some of the laurels lost to Capablanca, by his success against J.W. Showalter in Lexington, has permitted only a few of the scores of the game to see the light of day. While everyone concedes the right to Marshall to create a possible source of revenue for himself, yet opinion is divided as to whether his course is beneficial to chess in general, and therefore, to his own interests or not. One of the best contested series with Showalter was the second of the series played at the rooms of the Louisville Chess and Whist Club. Marshall had the white pieces and offered the king's gambit, so seldom seen in match play. Showalter declined to accept the pawn with 2. B-B4, and queens were exchanged on the fourteenth move. The Kentuckian played excellent chess throughout the middle game, and succeeded finally in drawing after thirty-nine moves.
