Chess Items.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 29

Chess Items.

A meetiug of the Ofcago Chess Club was held at the club room on Saturday evening, for the purpose of taking steps to promote an intercolonial.chess tournament to beheld in Dunedin during the exhibition. It was resolved that such a tournament be held under the direction of the club, and that a committee of seven members i with power to add to their number, be elected ! with the view of carrying the resolution into ! effect. Messrs C. S. Reeves, Throp, Mouat, | Allen, and Irwin, Dr Stenhouse,'and Dr Fitchett, I M.H.R., were elected ; Mr Mouat to be secretary | and convener. Mr Henry Mander consented to I act as treasurer. The committee was instructed to draw up a circular to be sent to the various chess clubs throughout New Zealand and the chief towns in the other colonies inviting their | co-operation. Is Oh ess Absorbing.— Smith contended that cheas was absorbing. Brown contended that it was not j so. "So absorbing ifl it," said Smith, "that when Jones and Robinson commenced a game, eaoh filled out a glass of " Old Irish," and after playing for five hours they found their drinks untasted." " Exactly so," said Brown ; " they were not absorbed." VSo absorbing is it." retorted Smith, " that after kneeling before retiring to rest one night, a new variation in the Frazer-Mortimer-Pierce-iaeseritzky-Oounter Gambit Btrucfc me, and I found myself still on my knees at rising time." Smith looked up and found that Brown had fled.— T. B. B.