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The conditions
submitted by the South to the North when accepting the challenge were as
follows:
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1.-The
title of the contest between the chess-players of the fifteen counties
named in the challenge received from Mr. I. M. Brown, of Leeds, and those
of the twenty-five Counties named in Rule 2 of the Southern Counties Chess
Union Constitution, shall be the “NORTH
v. SOUTH MATCH.”
2.-The
Match shall take place at Birmingham, on a Saturday in January or February,
next year (1893), and play shall commence and terminate at hours to be
hereafter agreed upon; there shall be a time-limit of twenty moves per
hour, to be regulated by clocks; one game shall be played between each pair
of players.
3.-Each
team shall be composed of at least one hundred players, but this number may
be increased by mutual consent.
4.-The
qualification for a player to represent the NORTH
or SOUTH shall be birth or twelve
months’ residence in one of the fifteen or twenty-five Counties
respectively apportioned to the NORTH
or SOUTH.
5.-All
games unfinished at the hour fixed for the termination of the play shall be
forthwith adjudicated by Mr. J. H. Blackburne, who shall also act as Umpire
on all points of difference throughout the Match.
6.-There
shall be scoring by default in case of absentees, and the Hon. Secs. of the
NORTH and SOUTH shall exchange lists of one hundred players, and ten
reserve players, placed in order of playing strength, at least two days
before the date fixed for the Match, and no players but those named in the
lists shall take part in the Match.
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In his covering
letter, L.P. Rees suggested play start at 2.00 p.m. or 2.15 p.m., and that
the match be played on Saturday, January 28th, 1893.
The revised
conditions submitted by the North to the South, in reply, were as follows:
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1.-The
title of the contest between the chess-players of the fifteen counties
named in the challenge received from Mr. I. M. Brown, of Leeds, and those
of the twenty-five Counties named in Rule 2 of the Southern Counties Chess
Union Constitution, shall be the “NORTH
v. SOUTH MATCH.”
2.-The
Match shall take place at Birmingham, on Saturday, January 28th, 1893, and
the duration of play shall be five hours (1.30 to 6.30 p.m.). One
game shall be played between each pair of players; there shall be a
time-limit of twenty moves per hour, to be regulated by clocks; and that,
retaining the time-limit of twenty moves per hour, each player must have
completed fifty moves after consuming two and a half hours. Play
shall be governed by the rules of the Book of the London International
Tournament, 1883.
3.-Each
team shall be composed of one hundred players, with ten additional players
who shall act as reserves, the reserves to be utilised as follows: the one
hundred players shall retain the places assigned to them in the lists, and
any vacant place shall be filled by the reserves, the first reserve taking
the highest vacant position and so on. In case reserves on both sides
are present after the one hundred places have been filled, the number of
the teams shall be extended until the reserves on one side are exhausted.
4.-The
qualification for a player to represent the NORTH
or SOUTH shall be birth or twelve
months’ residence, immediately preceding the date of the Match, in
one of the fifteen or twenty-five Counties respectively apportioned to the
NORTH or SOUTH, but that professional players shall not be eligible as
members of either team.
5.-That
Mr. Blackburne shall act as Umpire on all points of difference throughout
the Match, and at the hour fixed for the termination of the play shall
forthwith adjudicate all games unfinished; that in the event of the
unfinished games being too numerous for Mr. Blackburne to adjudicate
forthwith, he may request the captains to act, or to appoint
additional adjudicators.
6.-The
Hon. Secs. of the NORTH and SOUTH shall exchange lists of one hundred
players and ten reserve players, placed in order of playing strength, at
least two days before the date fixed for the Match, and no players but
those named in those lists shall take part in the Match. The clocks
of all players shall be set going at the time for beginning play, and ten
minutes afterwards the reserves shall be called up. One game shall be
scored by default against every absentee whose place in the lists is within
the limits 1 to 100 and for whom no reserve has been substituted.
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The only point on
which the South disagreed with the revised conditions was the duration of
play, preferring four-and-a-half hours rather than five, to ease travel
arrangements. In the event a playing period from 1.15 to
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