36 CHESS GAMES AT ONCE.

Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1914, Page 4

36 CHESS GAMES AT ONCE.

i Dr Lasker, the chess champion, who is now in Moscow, lately played 36 op-' pononta simultaneously, winning 22 games and losing four, the remaining 10 games being drawn. Play lasted 7\ hours until four o'clock in the morning. The St. Petersburg 'Ruaskoe Slovo' saya that Dt Lasker, who is a Jew, has received permission to stay in Russia only so long as« ho is giving chess brtkms,