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| Marshall on the attack |
It was a double round event with one round per day with the exception of Friday which was reserved for adjourned games. The time limit was 30 moves in two hours then 15 moves per hour. The participants were: Frank Marshall and Charles Jaffe (New York City), E.S. Jackson, Jr. and Sidney Sharp (Phildelphia), Stasch Mlotkowski (Los Angeles) and George Neidich (Burlington, New Jersey).
Marshall was the favorite, but there were times that he had uneasy moments when both Jaffe and Mlotkowski had their chances. For example, against Marshall in the 7th round Jaffe missed winning a piece.
Jaffe was in the lead in the 3rd round and in the 4th Mlotkowski took the lead only to lose it in the 5th round when Jaffe and Marshall were tied. In round 6 Marshall was in the lead by himself, but in the next round he was tied with Mlotkowski. After that, Marshall won the last three rounds while Mlotkowski weakened and lost his last two games.
Jackson started out with three straight losses, but then won 4 in a row to bring himself within half a point of the leaders. Then came two more losses before his final round defeat of Mlotkowski.
As for Jaffe, he took 2nd place without any such alarms. Sidney Sharp was not at his best and George Neidich, a Cornell University freshman, was a last minute fill in and created a sensation in the first round by defeating Sharp, but he didn’t score again until the 9th round when he defeated Jackson. He had played brilliantly against Jaffe in the 3rd round, but overlooked a forced win. Not much is known of George Neidich except at in 1923, at the age of 25, he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell.
There were three special prizes:
The Brilliancy Prize, donated by Sidney Rosenzweig, was won by Jackson for his win over Mlotkowski
The Second Brilliancy Prize, donated by the William F. Drueke Company, was won by Jaffe for his win over Sharp.
The Best Played Game Prize, also donated by Drueke, was won by Marshall for his win over Sharp.
Final Standings:
1) Marshall 7.5-2.5
2) Jaffee 6.5-3.5
3-4) Jackson and Mlotkowski 5.0-5.0
5) Sharp 4.0-6.0
6) Neidich 2.0-8.0
In the following game Marshall’s main attack, which comes after the Qs are exchanged is impressive. In fact his whole attack is not the flashy kind we expect to see from Marshall, it fact, it’s smooth a silk.
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