AJanuary 20, 1913
The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Monday, January 20, 1913
Chess Masters Begin Second Annual Play
Fourteen Entered in American National Tournament; Results of First Day.
New York. Jan. 19.—The opening round of the second American National chess masters tournament began here today at the Manhattan Chess club, with fourteen players entered.
Only twelve of the players were at the boards today, the game in which David Janowski, the French champion, and Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion, were paired having been postponed until tomorrow owing to the fact that both these masters had only arrived in New York today from Europe after a tempestuous voyage on the steamer Mauritania. The contestants in the tournament, besides these two, are:
Jose R. Capablanca, of Havana, winner of the San Sebastian tournament in 1911; Oscar Chajes, Chicago; L. B. Zapoleon, Washington; H. Liehenstein, Baltimore; Norman T. Whittaker, Philadelphia; Harry Kline, Boston; J. S. Morrison, Toronto; J. Stapfer, the New Jersey champion, and Charles Jaffe, A. Kupchik, I. Tenenwurzel and S. Rubinstein, New York.
Capablanca, Kupchik and Stapfer each won his game, respectively, from Libenstein, Zapoleon and Rubinstein. It required twenty-six moves by Capablanca to be declared the winner, while Kupchik took 57 and Stapfer 34 to dispose of their opponents. The contests between Morrison and Chajes, Tenenworzel and Jaffe and Whittaker and Kline all were drawn.
The pairing for tomorrow's round, in addition to the postponed game between Janowski and Marshall, is as follows: Jaffe vs. Leibenstein, Chajes vs. Zapoleon, Marshall vs. Kupchik; Whittaker vs. Capablanca, Janowski vs. Rubinstein, Morrison vs. Tenenwurzel, and Stapfer vs. Kline.
