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class="hfeed content"> <div id="post-886" class="hentry post publish post-1 odd author-admin category-articles category-history"> <h1 class='post-title entry-title'><a href='https://www.rookhouse.com/a-new-napier-game-by-john-s-hilbert/'>A “New” Napier Game (by John S. Hilbert)</a></h1><p class="byline">By <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="https://www.rookhouse.com/author/admin/" title="Kevin Marchese">Kevin Marchese</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="Friday, March 15th, 2013, 6:00 am">March 15, 2013</abbr> </p> <div class="entry-content"> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-888" title="William Ewart Napier (American Chess Bulletin 1905)" src="https://www.rookhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1905_ACB_napier_PICTURE.gif" alt="" width="135" height="182" /><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>William Ewart Napier</strong> was born in England on January 17, 1881. His family soon moved to the United States, and because they did American chess has been all the richer. Napier first played correspondence chess, participating in one of the Continental Correspondence Chess Association’s preliminary sections in 1894. When his family moved to Brooklyn, Napier, then only thirteen, looked up the one man in the city who could do more for him, in terms of chess, than any other: the twenty-four-year-old Hermann Helms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Napier and Helms have long been associated with the Brooklyn Chess Club. It was there that Napier earned the moniker “Brooklyn’s Boy Wonder” for his imaginative play. At fifteen Napier crushed nineteen-year-old Frank Marshall in an 1896 match (7-1, with 3 draws), became the club’s 1897 champion, and from there went on to win brilliancy prizes over the likes of Mikhail Chigorin (Monte Carlo 1902), Curt von Bardeleben (Hanover 1902) and John Barry (Cambridge Springs 1904)</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">But the Brooklyn Chess Club was not where Helms and Napier first played chess. Odd as it may sound today, Napier was at first believed too young by some members to join a men’s club, even though in early 1895 he was fourteen. While Napier visited the Brooklyn Chess Club to play against the likes of Showalter in simultaneous exhibitions, Helms first took him for regular play to the Brooklyn Young Men’s Christian Association’s Chess and Checker Club. Founded in 1888—one of the co-founders was the then-nineteen-year-old Helms himself—the Brooklyn YMCA’s Chess and Checker Club was housed in a small room on the third floor of the Brooklyn YMCA building on Fulton Street. A major difference between this club and others in the city was that the YMCA club actually taught its members chess. Literally chalk and blackboards were used, as well as lectures by experienced chess players. Members were divided into classes, and played handicap tournaments. Hermann Helms was club Secretary. His brother Charles played there as well. It was here that the young “chess fiends,” as they were called, came first to hone their skills. (New York World, December 20, 1892)</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The following game is one of a half dozen or so of Napier’s earliest published efforts. It is distinctive for two reasons. First, it is the only example so far found of his play at the Brooklyn YMCA’s Chess and Checker Club. Second, it does not appear among the over 300 Napier games in my <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Napier-chessmaster-John-Samuel-Hilbert/dp/0939433516" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Napier: The Forgotten Grandmaster</a></strong> (Caissa Editions 1997). Although not great chess, it does illustrate something of the young “chess fiend’s” early days.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Helms introduced his Eagle readers to the game the morning after it was played, rather than waiting to give it in his weekly Brooklyn Eagle column. At the time the book was researched, I had access only to the weekly Eagle columns held in scrapbooks at the White Collection in Cleveland. I am pleased the game can now be added to Napier’s canon. Helms wrote that the game was “a good specimen of the strong play of W.E. Napier, the youthful chess genius belonging to the Young Men’s Christian Association Chess and Checker Club,” adding that it was “contested in the handicap tourney of that club last night.”</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>– John S. Hilbert © 2013</strong></span></p> <p class="rpbchessboard-spacerBefore"></p> <div class="rpbchessboard-chessgame"> <noscript> <div class="rpbchessboard-javascriptWarning"> You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization. </div> </noscript> <div id="rpbchessboard-67b8d0da68756-1"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { function renderThisPGN() { RPBChessboard.renderPGN("rpbchessboard-67b8d0da68756-1", {"pgn":"[Event \"Handicap Tour YMCA\"]\r\n[Site \"Brooklyn, NY\"]\r\n[Date \"1895.03.29\"]\r\n[Round \"?\"]\r\n[White \"Napier, William Ewart\"]\r\n[Black \"Griswold, CG.\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"C64\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"81\"]\r\n\r\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 d6 5. O-O Bd7 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Bb6 8.\r\nNc3 Nge7 9. Be3 O-O 10. Qd2 Bg4 11. Ne2 Bxf3 12. gxf3 Na5 13. Ng3 a6 14. Be2\r\nNac6 15. Kh1 d5 16. e5 Qd7 17. Rg1 Qh3 18. Bf1 Qh4 19. Rd1 f5 20. Bg5 Qxd4 21.\r\nQxd4 Bxd4 22. Bxe7 Rf7 23. Bf6 Bxf2 24. Rg2 Bxg3 25. Rxg3 Kf8 26. 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