CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13860, 25 March 1907, Page 5

CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

LASKER VICTORIOUS. Press Association— By Talogroph—Cdpyright. LONDON, March 22. For the chess championship Lasker won five games and Marshal! nil, while seven were drawn.

Dr Laskor has now upheld his banner for eloso on 13 year.?, and tho general consensus of opinion in chess circles was that bo would continue lo do so. "He is a man," says the Saturday I'cvicw, " who has carefully weighed and probed the latent possibilities of the various openings, ho knows l)y instinct the psychologies.! moment to dissolve (lie position for the ending, ami, like a certain groat biologist, ho has assimilated the knowledge and corrected Ihe errors of his predecessors. Marshall, on the other hand, is tho algebraical ?■ in chess; no one can forecast his plnci! in a tournament, any inoro (.ban m>.. «m loi«tc Ihe will-o'-rlic-wisp in an Irish bog. Ho dares all things; he will throw away a third ol a kingdom, us wo saw in om> of the Monte Carlo tournaments, in his efforts to win. Marshall has elaborated and studied the queen's pawn iranie almost oil nauseam, and liis legion of admirers now hope lie will display his resources in other directions. All tho same, highly instructive will ho the clashing of two schools of thought, the meeting of the Pig Endians and the Little' Endians. In modern games sacrilires actually occur is often, perhaps, in I lie queen's gambit, ■as anywhere, and there aro innumerable possibilities of such sacrifices which Ihe ordinary player would not detect."