Correspondence.
TO THE EDITOB OF THE PBBSS. Sib, —In your report of the recent chess tournament, held at Christchurch, you state that •* the lists were open to all Canterbury." Permit mc to remark that this was so only in name —the condition of the tournament requiring each player to play every other, necessitating so many games as virtually to exclude those residing at a distance from our v Gr.at Metropolis " from taking part in the contest, by reason of it. cost in time and money. If it be really the wish of the Christohurch Club to admit country contestants to a future tournament, I would suggest to the Committee of Management that the "handicap" bo
abandoned (it being satisfactory only in small circles where the relative strength of all the comh.itunt* is well known) r.:nl that a tournament for the ehaiupif>i.si.i,\ with first, second, and third prizes be r.donit'd in pl.tre. I am, sir, yours obediently, Hen by Hook ham, Member of the Kaiapoi Chess Club. March 12, 1870.
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Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2158, 18 March 1870, Page 3
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