DRAUGHTS PROBLEM. No. 263.

Otago Witness, Issue 1489, 29 May 1880, Page 23

DRAUGHTS PROBLEM. No. 263.

End of Game played ia Bridgeton Club between Messrs C. Browne and J. Jones.

Black [Browne] to play and win.

DRAUGHT 3 NEWS.

Mr William Strickland, of Leeds, the champion blindfold draught-player, lately accomplished a great feat in drautfht-phyinfj at the Central Club, Trongate, Glasgow, He undertook to play ten games simultaneously against as many opponents, ana that, too, without seeing either boards or men. Play began about seven and concluded at cloven. A f tor playing a couple of hours Mr Strickland said he would call out the position ot the pieces if it would provs rf interest to the spectatois, <xnd this he did without a mistake, Showing that he had as good a view in his " mind's eye " of the respective piece* as the players who had their boards before them. More surprieirg still, on tha games being finished, he repeatea all the moves made in the ten games (a total of nearly 450 moves) ; and then, the crowning feat of all, he gave every mova backwards. The score -four wins to Strickland, three wins for his opponents, and three games drawn-ia surprising when the skill of his antagonists is taken into account. A draught ma^ch is on the topis between six residents ot Riverton and aix of lnvorcargill, to come off it is expected on tho 24th inst. Tno names ef tho probable playera on tho Riverton sido are as follows : — llosars Scott, J<nnes M'Donald, D. M'Donald, Myers, Wilson, and Robinßon. N. B. —As our Chess and Draughts take up rather moro than the ordinary spaca this week we withhold our usual answers to our correspondents until next issue