... is the only undergraduate who can be confidently looked upon as capable of maintaining the prestige of University chess. The annual chess festival at Hastings was this year additionally interesting on account of the great match between Sussex and Kent ...

... has led to his defeat; but he nevertheless still has admirers who believe that, having abundantly sown his wild oats on the chess board, he will in future display more prudence. For my part, after seeing the first game of his match with Lasker at Moscow ...

... CHESS CHAT. IT seems almost impossible that the question should arise whether or not English first-class players should be allowed to play in an English international tournament; yet that is prac tically the issue that the delegates who are to meet at ...

... in England. Daceiesole, who wrote the earliest treatise on chess hitherto known, wrote the book which is said to have formed the original of Caxton's celebrated work, The Game and Play of Chess. He flourished in the twelfth century. Mr. Steinitz possesses ...

... promote county chess, and will doubtless contribute towards strengthening the position of Sussex in the struggle for supremacy among the Southern Counties. It is somewhat surprising to see Brighton, which used to be the centre of chess in the South, so ...

... players a-side took place last week between the City of London and Athenaeum Chess Clubs, with the result that the City men won by 27i to I2J. In the tournament at the British Chess Club, to determine the English team for tlie Cable match with America, the ...

... CHESS CHAT. THE Americans escaped the hollow defeat that--after the first day's operations--was predicted for them in the cable match; but despite their admirable play on the first five boards, they were unable to save the situation, the final score being ...

... there was a chance of Steinitz, tho champion of thirty years' hard campaigning, re asserting himself, the apathy of Euglish chess players, who have known him at his best, was an impossibility. But with Steinitz falling to the rear, and Blackhnrue failing ...

... CHESS CHAT. It will be interesting to observe the effect of the rule intro duced in the Paris tournament, which commences on May 15, that the contemplated number of twenty entries may be increased by an unanimous vote of the competitors. Unanimity is ...

... the spirit in which chess is generally played. If our chess critics take themselves too seriously, why should not our problem composers also 1 Why should not the intrepid Toz fight to the death in the pages of the Briiish Chess Magazine, in favour of ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Many answers and notices we are obliged to postpone. .T. H. Blaokburne, W. K. Pollock, W. Curnock, H. Charlick, and C. Dust.-- Much obliged for news and articles. Ward and Downey.-- Intend to examine and notice it. W ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRF.SPDYrVRNTS J. W. Thanks for your papers. T. F. Smyihe (Camden Town). We shall be glad to ha7e some more spe cimens of your skill. J- H. We hope to publish the game next week, and to point out the erroneous and unfair criticisms ...