Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-08-06
Royal Game Of Chess
Has Local Enthusiasts


kindly allow me u portion ~ yuuf VAL
uablr space ~ make statement "
the beauties NJ the game " chess ~.
the benefit VI those who DO not play
the gamr7
\ club has been started In the va.
yorloy club rooms but II seems 10 be
the prevailing opinion that know.
ledge Of the game Is necessary to Join.
This Il mistake. We would be only
too glad to teach the theory Of the
game TO anybody DESTROYS Of acqdir.
ing II and anybody desiring an insight
into the greatest Of games" needs
only Ia apply for membership. II ~
our intention to have one good teacher
present every evening and he will tal;'
In hand any beginners who wish to
learn to play
At present the club Is amalgamatel
with the Wavcrloy Club the dues fcr
both being two dollars per month.
With larger membership this could
be reduced and II is the intention OF
the club to reduce It as soon as praC-
ticabc. Very few who take advan-
tage Of this opportunity to learn chess
will regret II. Any member of the
chess club will receive names of appli-
cants or they may be sent to myself or
to s. NJ. Ballou, secretary.
II would require too much space TO
go into the history Of chess and show
its claim as recreation from almost
the beginning of the Christian era.
Men Of genius from the celebrated
Caliph Hasoun of Bagdad $3.50 A. D.
down to Pope Leo XIII. Zone of the
most constant chess players aliveD
have INDUCED in the fascinating pas
time to marked degree as also war
riors from Charlemagne to Napoleon,
who never went on campaign withou;
his chess board and men.
Jas. Mason, one of the great masters
remarks in his recent work Social
Chess"
Eminent men of many nations and
many times have found chess a most
valuable resource against that weari-
ness which sometimes comes from CON
tinued labor and sometimes from en-
forced idleness.
DR.. Franklin, the American philoso-
pher and statesman, remarks: Life
is kind of chess in which we have
points to gain, and competitors or ad-
versaries to contend with, and in which
there is great variety of good and III
events, that are in some degree the
effects of prudence or the want OF II.
BY playing chess we learn foresight,
circumspection and caution. and lastly
we learn by chess the habit of not be-
ing discouraged by present bad appear
ances in the state of our affairs, the
habit of hoping for favorable change
and that of persevering in the search
of resources"
Mason continues: Chess demands
reasonable exercise of the will :"
There is no chance in chess. 1t is abso-
lutely impartial. When you lose,
your Judgment, or its expression, has
been inferior, you have been beaten
because In that particular case You
have played worse than your opponent.
But of course, the game neither is nor
can be any test or criterion of general
intellectual ability. Two people play
at chess-pcrhaps one decisively out.
plays the other. Then there the mat
ter ends; or rather, there the matter
should be allowed to end. But untOr.
tunately there is often the idea of
general intellectual victory or defea..
of superiority or inferlority, lettering
many who fear to bring their own
estimate of themselves to what they
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