St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Secured by Steinitz

SECURED BY STEINITZ

THE SIXTH GAME IN THE CHESS TOURNAMENT

RESULTS IN ZUKERTORTS DEFEAT

A Rattling Contest Opens the St. Louis Series

Great Interest Among Local Players

The Official Record of the Moves

Steinitz Getting Into His Old Form

Notes

The morning papers, in their report of the Steinitz-Zukertort chess match at the Harmonie club yesterday, differ so materially in respect to several moves that the following record of each move, compiled from the official score taken from Mr. S.M. Joseph, is here presented as the correct account of this brilliant game.

As was stated in the Post-Dispatch last evening, in announcing the first sixteen moves, the opening by Steinitz was the well known Ruy Lopez which, though considered a very safe one, was handled in a masterly manner by the white, who began to drive his opponent toward the wall by the sixteenth move. The game was played at the Harmonie club until 7 p. m. when, after recess, an adjournment was taken on the forty-sixth move to the rooms of the Chess, Checker, and Whist club at Eighth and Olive Streets, owing to the previous engagement of the rooms at the Harmonie for the evening. the games hereafter will be played entirely at the Harmonie club. The next contest will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 oclock and the third in the series on Monday. The conditions of the match require that one of the players shall win in St. Louis at least three games.

Notes

Steinitz has played chess the longer. Max Judd thinks Zukertort is still a pretty sure winner. Four ladies were present at the afternoon session at the Harmonie. Zukertort admitted that he lost the game on the twenty-fifth move. When Zukertort gets deeply absorbed, he puts on a pair of eye-glasses. In just an even hour after the start, Zukertort got up and began to pace the floor. Wallace Delafield kept order by cautioning excited players against talking too loud. The only stimulant the champions take is coffee which they sip from a stand at their side. After the game last night, Zukertort was crusty and went home, but Steinitz stayed and played whist. S.M. Joseph was the pink of courtesy and earned the title of daisy. He kept the Associated Press bulletin, and kept it straight. Both men are under 5 feet 5 inches tall and when they sat down at the high table, the spectators said, The tables not too big, the men are too small. Neither champion can give Max Judd a single piece and beat him. In fact, Max beat Zukertort several games when the latter was here a year ago. A boss move, said Mr. Joseph as Steinitz played his twenty-sixth. And another boss, he continued as the white checked with the knight on the fifty-seventh. Max Judd, the local champion, would give no running commentary. The games too deep. No good chess player will express an opinion as yet, he remarked on the thirty-seventh move. The numerous checks of Steinitz, beginning on the twenty-first move were compelled by the fact that his time was nearly exhausted, as the rules require thirty moves in the first two hours. Steinitz generally keeps his hands on his lap under the table, but Zukertort often leans his head on his left hand. This been done so much that his right shoulder has got a decided hump. Steinitz said yesterday that he had learned the intricacies of the queens gambit by recent analysis and was now so well posted on it that if Zukertort opens his next game with pawn to queens fourth, he (Steinitz) will surely beat him or make a draw. Steinitz has been attacking Zukertort bitterly in his chess magazine the past six months, but since they have been playing in this match they have been growing more friendly, and Joseph says that Steinitz called his opponent Zukey yesterday. The score now is Zukertort 4 games, Steinitz 2 games. It is pretty generally believed that Steinitz is getting back into his old form and is going to defeat the doctor. The only previous match the two ever played together was in London in 1878 when Steinitz won seven in a series of eight games.