... CHESS CHAT. mind. THE Christmas chess contest at Llandudno is an event which enables chess players who can get away from home at, or soon after, Christmas to see out the old year in a very pleasant style. It is hold at the Craigside Hydro, under the auspices ...

... CHESS CHAT. A TOURNAMENT of the Yorkshire Chess Club will be held at Bradford on the 2nd of January. The Mayor of that town has placed his rooms in the Town Hall at the disposal of the com mittee, and several handsome prizes are offered by individual ...

... CHESS CHAT. LAST week proved extremely fruitful of interesting and impor tant events in the chess world. On Monday, the 30th November, Dr. Zukertort was entertained at supper by the committee of the City of London Club, when about fifty gentlemen assembled ...

... most genial of chess writers, proposes to bring out early in '82 a work entitled Chess Players' Annual and Club Directory. It will contain articles, essays, humorous sketches, and chess trifles, by various writers also a list of the chess clubs of the ...

... CHESS CHAT. ONCE more the question as to what is an amateur chess player is cropping up and threatening to create no small troub'e in the Caissan camp. The question this time has been started or rather settled practically by the committee of the B.C.A ...

... CITY CHESS. {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) SIR,-- Will you allow me to call attention to one of the peculiar customs in the Chess-world at Purssell's, most of the players being altogether unknown by their ordinary names ...

... CHESS CHAT. Oavjng to the expiration of its lease, the British Chess Club has left 4'J, Leicester-square, and established its headquarters at 37, KiDg-street, Co vent- garden. By the liberality of Mr. George Newnes, M.P., the leaseand furniture of these ...

... CHESS CHAT. The annual handicap of the Cafe de la Regence resulted in Mr. Tabenhaus winning the first prize, M. Scliuman second, M. Clerc third, and M. Pasquier and M. Denouroy dividing fourth. It is proposed to hold a chess congress in New York next ...

... CHESS CHAT. MR. EDWARD GASTINEAU died at his brother's residence, Ivy House, Peckham, on the 2nd January. Every chess player, but especially the members of the City of London Club, will regret his loss, and sympathise with his bereaved brother, Mr, H ...

... Tavern, on Monday, September 3. Chess continues to thrive at Hastings, no doubt chiefly owing to Mr. Blackburne residing there. A new club has recently been established at the Royal Concert Hall, Warrior-square. Hereford Chess Association opened its second ...

... CHESS CHAT. THE closing scene of the Ladies' Chess Tournament was enacted on Monday night, and a very gay and pleasing ceremony it proved to be. In some previous incarnation the Ladies' Chess Club has no doubt been used as a concert room or possibly as ...

... somewhere in the chess world. Well, as the hot weather is coming on, I hope no one will Bet the Thames on fire. Joking apart, I believe the veteran Bird and the aspiring Eurn will meet in deadly strife about a fortnight hence at the British Chess Club. On the ...