... scoring 5. A first-class tournament, open to all British players, will be commenced at the British Chess Club in the first week of March. In tho City of London Chess Club the surviving competitors for tho championship arc Mr. A. Mocatta, M. Mireau, and Dr. Smith ...

... CHESS CHAT. counties' chess association. A meeting of this association will he held at Boston, Jan. 19. Class I. Open to all provincial amateurs (and metropolitan amateurs by invitation) by subscription of £1 1s. The first prize will be of the value of ...

... CHESS CHAT. Mr. Heppel gave recently an exhibition of simultaneous play at the new chess club in Canonbury, and vanquished all liis nine opponents. Mr. F. Lee is still fulfilling engagements in Dublin. Messrs. Dean and Son will shortly publish The History ...

... CHESS CHAT. THE first annual meeting of the Wilts Chess Association was held at the Town Hall, Trowbridge, last week, when the Rev. J. C. Thring presided, and presented the county challenge cup to the Rev. E. Wells, of Salisbury. The Rev. J. F. Welsh ...

... leading members, the dinner of the British Chess Club was em bellished by the presence of a number of gentlemen distinguished in law, literature, legislation, and various other capacities exclusive of chess. Chess players, as is well known, are interested ...

... CHESS CHAT. CHESS ECCENTRICITIES is the title of a very interesting book just published by Longmans, Green, and Co., and written by Major George Hope Verney. The object of this work is to bring together as many of the different forms of chess, other ...

... afternoon the Tournament Committee of the Southern Comities Chess Union met at tlie British Chess Club, under the chairmanship of Dr. Hunt, and accepted the invita tion of the Southampton Chess Club to hold the autumn tournament at that place, to commence ...

... my sense of the great loss that the chess-playing community has suffered by Mr. Wayte's lamented death. He was a chess scholar of unrivalled accomplishment, who for many years took the lead at the St. George's Chess Club, and it cannot bo doubted that ...

... of dinners, of suppers, of annual entertaiments than chess-players? In what saloons will you hear more lively discussions about all subjects of interest than in chess saloons The notion that chess is a silent game is very erroneous. I have frequently ...

... three matches for the cup between him and Mr. Spens his total score is eleven games to five. The Sussex Chess Magazine, a fortnightly record of local chess, has just been started under the editorship of Mr. Walter Mead. This little serial is got up in a manner ...

... CHESS CHAT. THERE is nothing like competition. If the City of London Chess Club were to claim the privilege of age and retire into the dignity and ease of private life, or if the Metropolitan Club were to apologise for its youthful impetuosity in attempting ...

... CHESS CHAT. A WELL-KNOWN chess player-- a foreigner-- writing in a London daily says: There are a large number of so-called minor masters in England who can play better chess than a good many of the much-belauded foreign players. Quite true, say all ...