He developed a code that was later refined by a leading Russian problem composer and adapted for use with telegraphs for cable matches.
Uedeman was born in Germany and came to the United States at the age of twelve, the family settling in Chicago where he lived the rest of his life.
In his day Uedeman was one of the most popular players in Chicago for a quarter of a century. For many years he served as chess editor of one The Chicago Tribune, once self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper."
His passing at the age of 58 came as a shock even though he had been confined to his house for about eight months. He died of what was then known as Bright's disease, but is now known as nephritis, a kidney disease of various causes and symptoms so the treatment varies depending on the symptoms.
At times, his condition seemed to be improving, but he failed rapidly during the last two weeks. On the day before his death, he was in a cheerful frame of mind and neither his wife nor two daughters, who were at his bedside, believed the end was near.
At the time of this tournament in 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (known informally as the 1904 World's Fair) was held from April 30th to December 1st. The Summer Olympic games were also held in St. Louis.
The fair was a backdrop to the chess tournament. Max Judd, head of the tournament organizing committee, wanted to name the winner US champion, but Harry Nelson Pillsbury, who was already in poor health and was to die of syphilis two years later, strongly objected. It didn’t matter that he was the reigning champion because the medal Marshall won proclaimed him to be the US Champion.
Draws were replayed with colors reversed and if the second game was also drawn the result stood. Games were played 1-6pm and 8-11pm with time controls of 30 moves in 2 hours and 15 moves an hour thereafter.
Note that there were two players named Schrader, but they were do not appear to be related. Edward F. Schrader (1877-1966) was born in Switzerland and cane ti the United State sin 1891 and was an artist in St. Louis. He won the 6th Western Championship in Excelsior, Minnesota in 1905.
Eugene W. Schrader (1873-1949) was a medical doctor who was born in Paris, Missouri, a small village about 125 miles northwest of St. Louis. He was an organizer for this tournament.
Uedeman’s opponent wa Stasch Mlotkowski (1881-1943) who was born in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania which is 5 miles west of downtown Philadelphia.
He won the 5th Western Chess Association championship at St. Louis 1904 and in 1923 tied for 1st with Norman T. Whitaker in the 24th Western Chess Association championship in San Francisco. He died in New Jersey.
[Event "7th American Congress, St. Louis"]
[Site "St. Louis, MO USA"]
[Date "1904.10.19"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Louis Uedemann"]
[Black "Stasch Mlotkowski"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C63"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1904.??.??"]
{C63: Ruy Lopez: Schliemann/Jaenisch Defens} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 {
Sharp and tactical!} 4. d3 (4. exf5 {is really risky...} e4 5. Qe2 Qe7 6. Bxc6
bxc6 7. Nd4 {and blck has tried 7...c5, 7...Nf6 snd 7...Qe5, but 7...Nf6 is
probbly the best.}) 4... fxe4 5. dxe4 Nf6 6. O-O d6 7. Nc3 Be7 8. a3 Bg4 (8...
O-O $1 $11 9. Bc4+ (9. h3 Kh8 10. Be3 Be6 11. Qe2 a6 12. Ng5 Bg8 13. Bc4 Bxc4
14. Qxc4 {Cgabces are equal. Kunal,M (2367)-Kulkarni,B (2231) Mumbai IND 2014})
9... Kh8 10. Ng5 Qe8 11. f4 exf4 12. Bxf4 Nd8 13. Qd3 Ng4 {White is better.
Svidler,P (2722)-Aronian,L (2801) Moscow RUS 2010}) 9. Bc4 (9. Qd3 Qd7 (9...
Bxf3 10. Qxf3 O-O 11. Qd3 Kh8 12. Be3 Nh5 {White is better. Kostro,J (2385)
-Franzen,J (2330) Stary Smokovec 1972}) 10. Bc4 Rf8 11. Ne1 Nh5 12. Nd5 Nd4 13.
f3 {White is much better. Kostro,J (2385)-Franzen,J (2330) Stary Smokovec 1972}
) 9... Nd4 10. Qd3 Bxf3 11. gxf3 Qd7 12. Kg2 {Prevents ...Qh3, but it was
really not necessary to do so.} Nh5 13. Nd5 {This is an inviting post for the
N, but it really doesn't accomplish anything here. It would have been better
to eliminate black's well placed N with 13.Nb5} Rf8 14. f4 {It's attack and
defense on the K-side. Who's going to succeed?} c6 $1 15. Nxe7 Qg4+ {This is
inviting, but black is barking up the wrong tree!} (15... Nxf4+ 16. Bxf4 Rxf4
17. Nf5 d5 {Counterattacking in the center...black has a slight edge after} 18.
exd5 Rxf5 19. f4 cxd5 20. Ba2 Rh5) 16. Kh1 {Black has no effective followup to
15...Qg4+, but now after 16...Kxe7 he has reasonable chances to defend himself.
} Nf3 {[%mdl 8192] Black has completely misjudged his position...this is the
losing move.} 17. Be6 {[%mdl 512]} Qxe6 18. Qxf3 g6 {The N is trapped and so
white decides to sell it for a P, but that turns out to have been a poor
decision because after 19.Nxg6 black is back to equality.} 19. Nxg6 (19. Nf5 {
White remains a piece upo and jeep his winning position.} exf4 (19... gxf5 20.
Qxh5+ {wins for white.}) 20. Bxf4 O-O-O 21. Bh6 Rfe8 22. Rae1 Qf6 23. c3) 19...
hxg6 $14 20. f5 Qf7 {Black has recovered his piece and white can claim to
being only slightly better.} 21. Bg5 Kd7 {Connecting his Rs} 22. Rad1 gxf5 23.
Qc3 Qg7 {[%mdl 8192] This is fatal and this time Uedeman doesn't miss the win.}
(23... Rae8 {Holds the fort.} 24. Qb4 {is adequately met by} Kc8 25. Rxd6 Rg8
26. h4 Rxg5 27. hxg5 Nf6 {and white keeps chances equal with either 28.Rg1 or
28.Kg2 or even...} 28. Rxf6 Qh5+ 29. Kg2 Qxg5+ 30. Kf3 Qxf6) 24. Qb4 Qg6 {
A gross oversight that loses at once.} (24... Kc8 {Unlike in the previous note
without the R on e8 this does not save the game. What it dies do though is
make the win much reicker for white to achieve.} 25. Qxd6 {After about 5
minutes Stockfish came up with the following sequence.} (25. Rxd6 Qxg5 {
is equal.}) 25... Re8 26. Bd8 Nf4 27. Rg1 Qh7 28. Bf6 Qc7 29. Qd2 Nh5 30. Qg5
Qh7 31. Bxe5 b6 32. f4 Rf8 33. exf5 Kb7 34. Qg6 Rh8 35. Bxh8 Rxh8 36. Qxh7+
Rxh7 37. Rde1 c5 38. Rg6 Rf7 39. Rg5 Nxf4 40. Rf1 Nd5 {with an easily won
ending.}) 25. Qxb7+ Ke6 26. Qe7# 1-0
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