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[Septembek 1, 1898. 



No. 2. 

 By A. C. Challenger. 



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CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The Lee-Teichmann match resulted in a victory for Mr. 

 Teichmann by three games to one, with five draws. Such 

 a score does not show any marked superiority on either side. 

 The final score in the ^'ienna tournament was as foUowB, 

 Herr Schwarz's score being cancelled: — 

 H. N. Pillsbury 

 S. Tarrasch 



M. Janowski 2Gi 



. . 24l 

 .. 221 



21" ) 

 .. 21 S 

 .. 20i } 

 .. 20i \ 

 .. 19' 

 .. 18 

 .. 17i 

 . 17' 

 .. IG 

 .. 15i 

 .. 15" 

 . 13i 

 9" 

 6 



W. Steinitz 



C. Schlechter ... 



A. Burn... 



M. Tchigorin ... 



G. Jfaroczy 



P. Lipke 



S. Alapin 



E. Schiffers ... 



G. Marco 



J. H. Blackburne 



-J. W. Showalter 



C. Walbrodt ... 

 E. Halprin 



H. Caro 



D. G. Baird 



H. W. Trenchard 



28^ \ tie for first and second 

 28i ) prizes. 



third prize, 

 fourth prize, 

 fifth prize. 



< sixth prize. 

 "( seventh prize. 

 ( eighth prize. 

 ( ninth prize, 

 tenth prize, 

 special Chess Club prize. 



special prize. 



special prize, 

 special prize. 



tie 



tie 



On playing off the tie for first and second prizes, Dr. 

 Tarrasch won the first prize (i:2oO) by two games to one, 

 with one draw ; Mr. Pillsbury taking the second prize 

 (il6G). 



Dr. Tarrasch lost only three games out of thirty-six 

 played, a very fine performance ; Mr. Pillsbury lost five, 

 but drew considerably fewer games, this result bemg in 

 accordance with the styles of the two players. M. Janowski 

 lost both games against Lipke and Halprin. Mr. Steinitz's 

 only double defeat was at the hands of Janowski, but he 

 drew more games than usual, as also did Burn. Herr 

 Schlechter, as usual, drew about half his games, losing only 

 six. He was the only pla.yer to beat Mr. Burn in both 

 rounds. Probably the latter had resolved not to draw at 

 all costs, with the usual result. Tchigorin, hke his old 

 rival Steinitz, lost both games to Janowski, and to him 

 only. Maroczy hardly fulfilled expectations. He drew 

 more games than even Schlechter. Lipke also was 

 insatiable in the matter of draws, but he could not get one 



against Steinitz. Alapin had an excellent score at the 

 end of the first round, but he failed in the second. 

 Schiffers, on the contrary, started badly, and altogether 

 failed to do himself justice, while Marco hardly played 

 as well as he has lately. Blackburne drew no less than 

 twenty games. When playing his last game (against 

 Caro) he found himself in the anomalous position of 

 standing to lose i'4 if he won the game. Naturally he 

 lost it, thereby winning the i;12 prize for the best score 

 against the prize-winners. Showalter again disappointed 

 his admirers, while Walbrodt has his own carelessness to 

 thank for his low position. He forfeited two games through 

 arriving late. The last three are representatives of London 

 and New York; evidently the Anglo-American cable match 

 is not quite up to the standard of a first-class international 

 tournament. Altogether, the present tournament is one 

 of the strongest ever known, the players on the whole being 

 superior to their predecessors in the Vienna tourney of 

 1882, though Lasker and Charousek were needed to make 

 it complete. The winner enhanced his already great 

 reputation ; of the others, the chief honour rests with 

 Schlechter and Burn. 



Several of the Vienna competitors are now playing in 

 the tournament of the German Chess Association at 

 Cologne. Herr Cohn, the well-known Berlin amateur, 

 was leading at the end of the tenth round, closely followed 

 by Mr. Burn. Of the remainder, Steinitz, Charousek, 

 Tchigorin, and Schlechter were making the best scores, 

 and Herr Schallopp the worst. 



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The Knrkinokosm, or World of 

 Crustacea,— rV". By the Hev. 

 Thomas B. E. Stebbinj, m.a., 



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A Classic LegiicT of Agriculture. 

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 The Petroleum Industry. — II, 

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On the Eclipse Theory of Vari- 

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The Recent Eclipse.— The Lick 

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Plate.- The Lick Photographs of 



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175 



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