6476. What?
6477. First
chess club
From
Robert John McCrary (Columbia, SC, USA):
‘I
have found a reference suggesting an earlier club than the ones
noted in your Chess Records article.
On page 264 of volume two of Chess
by R. Twiss (London, 1789) a Dublin historian named Jos. C. Walker
was quoted as saying in a letter:
“A
Chess-club consisting of some of the principal nobility and gentry
was formed in Dublin about 40 years ago: but, like all private
associations, its existence was of short duration.”
That
would imply a date of about 1749
for the “club”, but it is impossible to ascertain from this
brief reference whether it was a formally-organized body.
On
page 265 of the same work a “letter from Edinburgh” was quoted as
follows:
“There
was formerly a Chess-club here, but of late in general every game has
given place to Cards.”’
6478. Pillsbury and Marshall games
Dominique Thimognier (Fondettes,
France) sends this game from page 6 of L’Echo de Paris
of 16
March
1903:
For more information, see the complete
column.
Our correspondent has also provided, from page 6 of L’Echo
de Paris
of 8
April 1901, the game Marshall v Henig,
Monte Carlo, March 1901.
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