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Charles Phillips vs Elmer Gruer
Chicago CC Championship (1913), Chicago, IL USA
Colle System (D05)  ·  1-0

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  NewspaperChessArchiv: This game submission comes from The San Francisco Call, Our Chess Corner, San Francisco, California, June 01-08, 1913

"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."

June 08, 1913:
"Here is the Phillips-Gruer game mentioned in last week's column. Had Gruer won this game he probably would have taken first place and the championship"

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