... CHESS CHAT. Mr. Blaokburne's score in his blindfold stance on October 5th at the City of London Chess Club was five wins, two draws, and one lost. In his simultaneous performance on October 9th his score was sixteen wins, three draws, and one defeat. ...

... CHESS CHAT. BY holding a summer tournament, which has proved more than usually interesting, the City of London Chess Club has done much towards mitigating Ordinary the characteristics of the dull season. No doubt the large amount of attention that the ...

... CHESS CHAT. THE late Mr. Lowe had many quaint and clever modes of expressing his ideas about chess. At times, indeed, he was epigrammatic. When some world-known nobody or aspiring mediocrity would lose to him not merely a game, but his temper, would claim ...

... recently draped with the national Hag, and from every prominont chess club in the country con gratulatory telegrams wore received. Mr. Steinitz may now ha seen any week at his old quarters, the Chess Divan, in the Strand, where he is well received. Air. T. Id ...

... suddenly on the 20th December. Mr. Lee possessed a rare genius for chess, and his loss at the early age of twenty nkie years will be deplored far and wide, especially in the principal chess circles of London, where he was well known and highly esteemed. ...

... CHESS CHAT. THE varying fortunes of most of the competitors in the Hastings tournament are very remarkable, and moreover very interesting to watch. One day Jones heats Brown, to whom he, properly speaking, ought to lose, and next day poor Jones loses ...

... subscribed £25 to the Man chester tournament. The Chess Monthly for August gives a portrait and sketch of Mr. W. M. Gattie. The Sporting Times tells the following little story: Sup posing, said a chess bore to a lively friend, placing several pieces on ...

... CHESS CHAT. A CONTEMPORARY says that Mr. Gunsberg is willing to play a match for a stake of £10 or £2 aside with any English player. About two or three weeks ago Mr. Gunsberg mentioned to me his desire to play a match with any first-class player, but ...

... CHESS CHAT. WITH the Pillsbury-Showalter match just commencing, the Anglo-American cable competition almost immediately imminent, the University chess week to follow, and the Vienna tourna ment to look forward to, while the League competitions and club ...

... weeks ago devoted about a column and a half to a critical survey of chess literature in general, and of two books in particular, namely Mr. Meyer's Complete Guide and Mr. Bird's Chess Practice. And on the 13th inst. the Pall Mali Gazette discussed the ...

... CHESS CHAT. THE characteristics of several eminent chess-players were conspicuously illustrated in their performances at the Wies baden tourney. Mr. Bird, whose confidence in his own powers is almost justified by his genius, if not by his success, paid ...

... CHESS CIIAT. THE Putney Chess Club holds its meetings every Thursday at seven o'clock, at the Fox and Hounds, which is one minute's walk from the railway station. On Thursday, the 27th January, I visited the club, and found a goodly company assembled ...