Chess Items.

Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 40

Chess Items.

Selected games from" the Wallace-Hodgson match will be published shortly, but a little time is required to examine them. I Two problems by Mr Iflustace King appear in the Kenthh Merouiy received bi' last mnl. The chess editor (Mr Tins'ey) says th-=y appear deucUdly creditable to colonial comj'O^ers. He a]S'j Bhvs in the»ame column :— " One of the curiosities uf chess is_ a little journal which reaches us from Wauganui, Naw Zealand. It was published during the recent congress there maiuly to report proceedings, but there are many interesting notfs." Mt Meldrum's (the New Zealand champion) ; ntme appears among the list of problem solvers in The Times Weekly edition of Match 27 last, and in a notice of the kst -meeting of the New Zealand Congress, which appears in the issue of the sama paper of MarcU 2U, Mr Meldrum's name is stated to have several times appeared in the solvers' list. A monster match of 50 a side was played on the 14th March last between the Ladies' Chess Club and the Metropolitan Chess Club (London). Mrs Bowles, who captained the ladies, writes to The Times :— "Never before in my life have I been no busy. I hardly realised what it meant when I issued the challenge, and I have simply had to sit and write letters from morning till night. There were disappointments, but on the whole it will be a wonderful help to our club, which? already numbers 95 members. Our charming president, Laiy Newnes, plays, and has just presented ua with six beautiful sets of Staunton men loaded with the boards." The ladies won the match by half a point. For the first time in history Burmah ha» a chess column It i* edited by one of the English residents, and published in the Rangoon Gazette.— T. W IS. Charlemagne is said to have prssented a set of ivory cheas men and a board to the treasury of St. Denis. They are said to ba still preserved in the cabinet of antiquities in the Bibletheque de Roi. — S A. Chronicle.

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