A VILLAGE OF CHESS-PLAYERS.
At the village of Strobeck, Germany, every five years, a chess congress is held. The children of the village nave for many centuries been taught chess, and show what progress they have made every Easter in the presence of the pastor, school teachers, and village authorities. The three girls and three boys who remain victors receive each a chessboard made in the village, and inscribed with the words ‘ A reward for perseverance.’ There are regular chess clubs for men and women, and on Sunday afternoons people pass the time in playing chess at the inn ‘Zum Schaehspiel,’ where, if a tourist happens to come in, he is invited to play and is generally beaten. The inhabitants, about 1250 in number, are almost all farmers, and in easy circumstances. The village church has a weathercock in the shape of a chessboard.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 2, 10 January 1891, Page 3
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144A VILLAGE OF CHESS-PLAYERS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 2, 10 January 1891, Page 3
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