Chess Item?,

Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 40

Chess Item?,

The "ladder" match between Messrs R. A . Cleland and A. Balk was .ended on Saturday, 21«t May, by Mr Clelaud winning the second game, the score of which app ars above. Ira Strategic for April -announces the decease of 1L - Beskiowny, one of the strongest Bussian amateurs and a collaborator with

M. 'Preti in that journal, and also of the Chevalier Emilio Oisiai, of "Leghorn, a barrister at law and founder of an Italian chess journal of high repute, La Nuova liivisla degli Schacci. The -same periodical also states that in August last (rather old news) a representation of a game of chess by living pieces, took place at Rio ds Janeiro on the occasion of a great cliari iy fete. It was the first occasion that such a show had been produced in Brazil, "but Avhat heightened the interest was that the actors vyere per^-ons of the highest society in Rio de Janeiro. The game was prepared beforehand by M. Arthur Napoleon and Dr Caius "Vianna, the two strongest players in Brazil, so as to end in a draw, without doubt with the object of not disturbing the equanimity of the

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gvea —ocess, cness ing mucn in vi'gue in Brazil, a great number of specbators "being aide, in addition to the magnificent spectacle of the rich costumes, to understand and appreciate the diif srent moves made by the pieces. 'J he same publication announces that T>r Tarrasch hag given up the editorship of the Deutsche Scbach Z itung, and has been replaced by Herreu Lippke and Berger, the latter being specially entrusted with the problem and end-game departments. Herr Berger is a distinguished problem composer, and some years ago published a wellknown and able -work on end sanies.