INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS AT BRADFORD.

Kumara Times, Issue 3738, 30 October 1888, Page 4

INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS AT BRADFORD.

The following are the final scores in the Masteis Chess Tournament at Bradford, Yorkshire. Sixteen games were played by each competitor : Won. J. Gunsberg ... ... 13J Capt. Mackenzie ... 12 C. Y. Bardeleben ... 11 J. Mason ... ... 11 A. Burn 10| J. H. Blackburne ... 10 Herr Weiss ... ... 10 S. Taubenhaus 9 H. E. Bird 7 W. H. K. Pollock ... 7 J. Mortimer ... ... E. Thorold ... ... F. J. Lee 5 Rev. J. Owen 5 J. E. Hall - ... ... 3tjj A. Rumball ... ... 3 Mr Gunsberg won the first prize of .£BO, Captain Mackenzie the second of £SO, Herr von Bardeleben and Mr Janies Mason divided the third and fourth, a total of £7O; Mr Burn took the fifth of £2O, and Mr Blackburne and Herr Weiss divided the sixth. The entrance fees of £36 were divided amongst the non-prize winners in the order of merit on the Berger system. In the Amateur Championship Tournament, for the Newnes Challenge Cup of the British Chess Association, Mr A. Guest, came out .first, and Mr G» A. Schoti, of Bradford, second. The play in the more advanced portions of several of the games was spoiled by mistakes; and in two of the rounds, more particularly, the majority of the winners owed their respective victories to oversights on the part of their several antagonists. Mr Gunsberg, who had slightly the worst of a game with Mr Locock, won it through the latter carelessly throwing away his Queen ; Mr Blackburne lost a piece by a slip in his game with Mr Burn ; MiBird by inattention let Captain Mackenzie begin a winning attack, &c. Mr Blackburne’s want of success in the earlier rounds is stated to have been due to ill health. He entered the competition against the express orders of his medical adviser. The play of Mr Gunsberg was marked throughout by great steadiness. He took instant advantages of the mistakes of his opponents, while where his own moves were o little weak bis resource in moments of difficulty enabled him to recover ground .in every instance but one.— Australasian.