Chess 01 Jun 1913, Sun The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com
After playing magnificent chess in a game with State Champion C. W. Phillips in the pending championship tourney of the Chicago Chess club, E. W. Gruer of this city experienced a brainstorm on his sixty-seventh move and threw away a won game. Gruer forwarded the score, and it is the opinion of all who have played it over that the precision strategy and judgment displayed by the former U. of C. youth was worthy of a Lasker. It was a horrible thing to lose such a game, and reading between the lines of his letter this is how Gruer felt. (Bear in mind that by defeating Phillips, Gruer would undoubtedly have won the high honors of first place.) The words are Othello's, but the sentiment is mutual:
