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Chess Contest Played by Radio 07 May 1922, Sun The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) Newspapers.com
The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Sunday, May 07, 1922 - Page 8 — Chess Contest Played by Radio — By Universal Service. — New York, June 6.—The world's first radio chess game between land and sea was in progress today.
“Pawn to king's fourth,” buzzed the radio from the steamship President Taft, near mid-Atlantic, and the message received in New York was relayed to Edward Lasker in Chicago.
“Pawn to king's fourth yourself,” Mr. Lasker replied to his opponent, E. T. Gunlach, a Chicago advertising man.
Lasker and Gundlach were seated in a Chicago club Friday preparing to play chess when Mr. Gundlach was called to the telephone.
“Well, the game's off,” he said sorrowfully on his return from the booth. “I'm leaving for New York this afternoon to sail for Europe tomorrow.”
After a moment Gundlach exclaimed: “I have it. We'll play by radio.”
Three moves had been made by each side tonight as follows:
1. P-K4 P-K4
2. N-KB3 N-QB3
3. B-N5 P-QR3
New York chess players say this is more or less of a conventional opening. Mr. Gundlach's third move, they say, indicates he is trying to prevent it.
The game will continue at the rate of four or five moves a day.
