Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea merchant, invented tea bags by accident. He wanted the small bags to be samples of the tea. People started dunking them instead. King C. Gillette patented his Gillette razor blade. On December 31, the first New Year’s Eve celebration was held in Times Square (then Longacre Square), New York City. And, the term “hangover” came into the vernacular. Before that, people felt “crapulous.”
If you lived in Chicago in 1904, you started paying the Bottled Water Tax. It applied to the retail sale of bottled water in the city at a rate of $0.05 per bottle. However, the tax did not apply to sale of bottled water to passengers on an interstate carrier.
In the match against the Twin Cities the outcome of one of the games was disputed owing to inability of the players to agree upon the correct position at time of adjournment. It didn’t matter; Chicago won by 10 points anyway.
The winner of the following game from the match was Chicago’s little known Carl Medinus (August 4, 1873 – December 6, 1941). Medinus played a match against Frank Marshall ib Chicago in 1900, with Marshall winning 4-2.
On the other hand, Horace Bigelow (March 6, 1898 – April 18, 1980) was a well known master and organizer. He learned to play chess at age ten in Lucerne, Switzerland. Eventually he found his way to New York City where he was a prominent member of the Manhattan Chess Club, one of organizers of the New York 1924 tournament. In 1928-29, he won the Marshall Chess Club Championship. He edited a chess column in the New York Evening Post and the Liberty magazine.
Carl Medinus (Chicago)–Horace Bigelow (Twin Cities)1–0C29Team Match01.1904Stockfish 16
C29: Vienna Game 1.e4 e5 2.c3 Originally the idea behind the was to play
a delayed King's Gambit, but in modern play qhite often plays more quietly.
Weaver Adams once claimed the Vienn led to a forced win, but of course it does
not. f6 3.f4 d5 Best. It strikes in the center. 3...exf4 4.e5 is
rarely played. White almost always replies with 4.Bc4, but the best movr
appears to be... g8 Best because after 4...Qe7 5.Qe2 black has to retreat
the N anyway. 5.f3 d6 6.d4 dxe5 7.b5+ c6 8.c4 White is better
developed. 4.fxe5 xe4 5.f3 c6 6.d4 More exact os 6.Bb5 b4 7.d2 f5N 7...g4 8.e2 xf3 9.xf3 xd2 10.xd2 h4+ 11.f2 xd4 12.xd4 xd4 with a clear advantage. 8.e2 xd2 8...f6 Challenging
white in this was assures black of equality. For example... 9.xe4 dxe4 10.h4 e6 11.xb4 xb4 12.0-0 fxe5 9.xd2 e4 10.0-0 10.0-0-0 is
somewhat stronger. f6 11.a3 xc3 12.xc3 0-0 13.he1 White is slightly
better. 10...0-0 11.ad1 b6 Black is wasting time with this pointless
move. Once again, challenging white's cenbter with 11...f6 is correct. 12.a3 e7 13.b5 xf3 14.xc6 14.gxf3 would be bad. xd4 15.a6 15.xd4 c5 15...c6 16.h1 f5 Black is slightly better. 14...xd1 15.xd1 15.xa8 is a misstep. xa8 16.xd1 c6 with an even position. 15...b8 16.xd5 f6 17.g4 White's position has reached the point where he can be considered
to be winning. f5 Apparently Bigelow hoped the elimination of Rs would ease
his defensive burden, but that is not the case. 17...fxe5 is technically
speaking no better though because of 18.e6+ h8 19.xe7 xe7 20.xe7 exd4 However, practically speaking, this is probably black's best chance. 18.xf5 xf5 19.xf5 g5 20.c3 a5 21.g3 h8 22.h4 c1 23.e6 Decisive. d6
Medinus now executes a nifty finish. 24.e7 xg3+ 24...xb2 was worth a
try. 25.g2 xa3 26.e8+ xe8 27.xe8 d8 28.b5 d6 White is winning,
but he still has some work to do. 25.f1 d6 26.e8+ xe8 27.xe8 xb2 28.h5 xa3 29.c8+ Black resigned . A fine finale by Medinus. 29.c8+ f8+ 30.xf8+ xf8 31.xc7 is hopeless for black. 1–0
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