St. Louis Globe Democrat/1886/Steinitz Wins Dr. Zukertork Yields

STEINITZ WINS DR. ZUKERTORT YIELDS A GAME TO HIS OPPONENT

The Most Skillful Game of the Chess Tournament Played in St. Louis A Remarkable Exhibition of Science in the Royal Game

The opening of the series of be played in St. Louis between the chess giants Dr. J. H. Zukertort and Herr Wilhelm Steinitz for the championship of the world and $2,000 stakes was played yesterday afternoon before an audience composed of well-known local chess amateurs and visiting members of other chess clubs. The first part of the game occurred in the Directors Room of the Harmonie Club, where play was continued until 7 oclock, when an adjournment was made until 8:30 to the chess clubs quarters on Olive Street, it being impossible to have the Directors parlors for a later hour. There were present among the spectators several prominent local players as well as a number from other cities. Among these were W.H. Ripley, Indianapolis, Ind.; C.M. Tucker, Pittsfield, Ill.; Henry Twiner, Brooklyn Chess Club; D. Martin, Toledo; Charles Intrepidie, Manhattan Chess Club of New York; Ernst Hoelke, Leadville, Colorado Chess Club; Max Judd, Isidor Judd, Wallace Delaney, A.H. Robbins, A. Judd, Col. Rowley, Albert Blair, Maj. M.C. Humphrey, F.E. Haydel, B.G. Woodward, Prof C.M. Woodward, Rev. Passart, B. Leobner, Dr. C.D.N. Campbell, S.M. Joseph, A. Hellnian, Judge Warner, Grant Tilden, William E. Ware, Lewis Haller, E.S. Rowse, and Judge Krum.

Cause of the Challenge

The match, a portion of which will be witnessed by the St. Louis chess world, is the outgrowth of the success which Dr. Zukertort achieved in 1883 at the great London chess tourney. Prior to that event Herr Steinitz had borne off the honors alike at the tourneys and single matches in which both had taken part. Herr Steinitz won the tournament in 1872 in which Zukertort was an adversary, the outcome of which was a private match between them in which Herr Steinitz won seven games to Dr. Zukertorts one. In the Vienna Congress of Chess Players in 1882, the first prize was awarded to Steinitz, the second prize winner on that occasion being Mason, an American player also, while Dr. Zukertort was fourth. In the tourney of 1883, Steinitz and Zukertort each won one game while playing together, and it was after this last meeting between them that the desire was expressed to see them face to face in a grand match to decide the championship. But difficulties interposed, and over- zealous adherents prevented the commencement of such a contest until agreeing to joint sponsorship by chess clubs, among them the local organization. A tempting fund was raised and everything at last satisfactorily settled. A meeting of the principals was held in New York, at which the agreement under which the present games are being played was made, and a knowledge of the main features of the contract will materially aid a thorough understanding of the game.