St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-14
Tie Chess Globe.

Tie Chess Globe.
Rally round the flag, boys!
This number introduces our chess column.
81 wish to live no longer than l can play
at chess. Sir Walter Rdleiqh
The ST. Paul Chess Club, which has benin
a comatose state during the summer, it ID
hoped Will revive very soon.
Mr.. Steinitz is so well pleased with America
that he has resolved to reside permanently in
New York. His family, consisting of wife
and daughter, joined him there last week
The Chess Nomthly Nondon), devotes the
main body of its August number to the
memory Of Paul Morphy, Il design very hap
PLY conceived as well as gracefully executed.
DR. Zukertort has been recalled to England
by the illness of his partner The doctor is
great chess genius and won considerable
popularity and many games on this side Of
! the water
The New Orleans and Philadelphia chess
clubs have actually carried on their tourna-
ments through July and August. We pity the
participants. The heat must have played sad
havoc with their cohesion.
DR.. w. c. Spencer, U. S. A., defendant in
the interesting Muzio above, and who is
without cavl one of the most accomplished
chess amateurs Of America, is now stationed
at Fort Smelling in this State.
Woman is gradually emancipating herself.
A Miss Julia Eastman has beaten all the boys
in the Cincinnati Commercial GazetteS latest
and hardest solvers' tourney, carrying every
problem by storm and putting every flaw to
the sword.
1t seems uncertain whether Herr Steinitz
has yet accepted the challenge of Senior Vas
quez to play a match in the city of Mexico
for 81 600. If he has, Senior Vasouez had
better order his coffin and his check book.
From last accounts, Mr.. Steinitz was busily
engaged in perfecting arrangements for the
publication of his magazine in January next.
It will deserve the generous welcome that it
is sure to be accorded, for Mr.. Steinitz is not
only the finest chess player living, but is the
first chess critic and analyst of this or any
other time.
Mr.. Charles Harrison, NJ. p, in an address
TO the Stratford club, says Of chess: "Young
men should learn and study the game no
/ other so nearly resembles the battle of life.
Men ask the question, Is it worth the trouble
/ of learningl Yes. II is ennobling to the
mind. it teaches men TO think and reason,
to count the cost, and to analyze every action
OF lfe."
Mr.. j. w. Miller's edition of Cook's S57eoD-
SIS, to be issued this month by Robt. Clarke
81 Co., Cincinnati, will have 1870 pages devo-
| ted 10 American chess, making the book,
complete, nearly 300 pages. 1t is to be hoped
/ that the errors Of the last English edition viii
have correction, and the occasional inferior
/ text move swop places with the half-smoth-
cred little foot-note move preceded by,
! ''Black would do better to play" etc. Price
! (post-paid) 81.
And now comes Vicksburg Miss, with g
chess club numbering thirty members.
That's it-organlze, everywhere! Form
local clubs aud state associations. The
amazing progress Of the game in England
and Germany along this line, proves the
power OF organization to be as effective in
this interest as in any other. National
Chess Association, and we see it is proposed
70 form one, can become permanent and
thrive only among such conditions.
Mr.. II. T. Bird is writing a work on the
theory of modern chess, which viii be COM
pleted in about twelve 30 page numbers at
shilling (Engllsh) each. The first number
is already in the hands Of the publisher, Mr.
Jas. Wade, IS Tavistock street, Coyent
Garden, w. 9. London, England. Mr..
Bird Is the Murat Of chess, and has been an
enthusiastic player for the last forty years.
He and the venerable HorBiz are the only
survivors Of all who engaged in the London
tournament Of 1851. He has crossed swords
with all the great masters Of the last genera
tion-Anderssen, Morphy, Harrwitz, Buckle
and others-as well as with those Of to-day.
He IS 4 link to join the chess spirit OF the
past generation with the aspiration of the
present one. He is already the author Of
several i'm ortant works upon chess. The
forthcoming one will no doubt be replete
with historic and analytic interest and in
every way valuable contribution to its liter
ature. Such production cannot fail to
challenge the chess pubic's most generous
! appreciation.
The Great Eastern will sail October IS, bring
ing from Europe government and individual eZ
| hibits free 10 the Worlds eznnsitinn-