The herald., 1895-02-10

fa) Winning pawn and securing much the
tb) A gross, palpable oversight which loses
the rock and makes all further defense useless.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
R. Brice, San Diego-W The chess
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E. E. H.-Solut ton correct. Solution to
problem No. 2 appeared in last Sunday S
issue.
G. Wilson-Solution 0. K. Let us hear
from you often.
A. g., San Francisco-Have mailed you
copy of last Sundays Herald. You will
find the desired information in that issue.
A, L., E. and several others send
Kt-Kt for solution to problem No. 3, but
the advance of the black pawn prevents
this mate. PIX is the key move
CHESS NOTES.
The Arizona tournament commenced
Monday.
Chess seems to be on the qui vive in
Southern California.
Monrovia boasts of chess club; it is
composed of a single player.
Santa Ana is distinctively to the front
in local chess circles.
Mrs. Jean La Blanche of Santa Monica
was at one time styled the Queen of Chess.
San Diego is organizing chess club.
The members contemplate challenging our
local men for match.
A series of games for the Los Angeles
Championship is to be. played between
the near future.
Thompson, winner of second place in
the San Francisco tournament, lisa former
Los Angeles player.
Champion Laskar is recovering from an
attack OF typhoid fever, and has given up
all idea of an immediate match with
SteinitZ.
The San Francisco club has evidently
abandoned the idea of challenging Los
Angeles for telegraph match.
Adolph Albin is evidently smarting
under his late defeat. He has challenged
Showalter for second match for $500 a
side to be played in April.
The Eastern intercollegiate tournament
is ended. The Harvard players won quite
handily with several points to spare.
Steinitz has proposed match to Showal-
ter in New York. but the latter is said to
be very reticent about entering upon such
a contest-presumably so.
The Manhattan Chess Club has given
the British Chess Club alternative dates
March I'd or March 9th, for the proposed
cable match
The score in the Janowski-M Misses match
being played in Paris is five wins each and
two games drawn. The Paris correspond
entS State tnat the play has so far Deen
very commonplace on both sides.
What has become of the proposed sweep
stakes tournament for Washington Birth
day? We had understood that it was an
assured fact, but have heard nothing from
it lately
G. A. Buck, business manager of the
San Bernardino Saturday Review, will be
guest of the Athletic Club today and will
be pleased to break friendly lance with
some of the local players.
A San Francisco contemporary is au-
thority for the statement that Mr.. Love
grove of that city contemplates challeng-
ing Mr.. Lipschutz for match, If Mr..
Lovegrove will come down to Los Angeles
he can get three to one bet and any
kind of match he wants.
Chess players will find game No. I
worthy of their especial study 1t is the
finest example of the Evans gambit that
has ever been published. Game No. 8,
''the immortal, by the same master, will
be found equally interesting.
Several new names appear in our lists of
solvers this week. We will be pleased to
hear from each of them often. Problem
No. 5, by A. L. Bert in next Sunday IS
Herald, will be an especially hard nut for
the solvers to crack.