Any items of Chess news of local interest will be gladly received. Correspondents must send with their communications their real names and correct ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 828 wordsThe spot-barred match of 12,000 points up between these celebrities terminated on December 20 in a victory for Bennett, who was in receipt of 5000 points start, by 275 ...
Article : 56 wordsAs early as 1870 Burn was one of the best metropolitan players. He retired soon afterwards from public contests, but maintained a local reputation in Liverpool. He ...
Article : 108 wordsGingin Turf Club Races. J. G. Riley, Secretary. APRIL 11 AND 12, 1887. York Jockey Club's Easter Meeting. Frank ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Adelaide Chess Club purpose holding an Australian Chess Congress in July or August, 1887, to be limited to players residing in Australasia and New Zealand. In ...
Article : 733 wordsWe introduce a diversion this week, by giving for solution a problem in which Black, with the move, is to draw the game. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsOn December 11th the most important billiard match that has been played for many years past terminated in a victory for North by 116 points. As announced in ...
Article : 761 wordsThat man's desert is small Who dares not put it to the touch To lose or win it all. ...
Article : 25 wordsAtlas, in the World, says:—"I hear that Gen. Owen Williams and Mr. Roberfc Peck, the joint owners of The Bard, entertain hopes that their beautiful little horse will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsMr. C. Snewing, the owner of Caractacus, the winner of the sensational Derby of 1803, died lately. The colt, after a two-year-old career showing little promise, had ...
Article : 286 wordsF.A.—Thanks; but you really must remember that all correspondence for use on a Saturday should reach us not later than the previous Thursday-and not a ...
Article : 132 wordsCaptain W. Kerr, the well-known enthusiast on the subject of Arab horses, has lately been writing a very interesting series of letters, with the object of bringing the ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Schachzeitung humourously suggests that England, France and Russia should settle their political differences by a " triangular dual," or series of chess watches ...
Article : 126 wordsNever since the days of the Barb has there been such a public equine idol as the Hon. W. Pearson's horse Commotion. Under all sorts of weights he has won or ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsSince Morphy's time Bird has been in the foremost rank of English chessplayers. He is now called the veteran master, but still maintains the vigour, brilliancy ...
Article : 132 wordsTwo prominent players, both skilled more or less, Are engaged in the game of political Chess. Each eyes his opponent and marshals his ...
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Advertising : 142 wordsOn December 13th a game was played at the Royal Westminster Aquarium between W. J. Peall and G. Collins, in which the former conceded 300 in 1000, and the only ...
Article : 139 wordsHope told a flattering tale, Delusive, vain and hollow. Ah, let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe American champion is a Scotchman, and was born in 1837. At the age of twenty he was gazetted to a commission in the 60th Rifles, and become known in chess ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsThis break, the fourth highest on record, was made by Peall in the course of a match with Collins at the Westminster Aquarium. In compiling the extraordinary number of ...
Article : 144 wordsWe met Gunsberg also in Paris in 1867. He was then a lad about thirteen years old, and we gave him the odds of Rook. He returned 10 his native place, Buda-Pest ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Sat 19 Mar 1887, Page 2
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