The Chess Congress.
[PEB P&EBS ASBOOUTIOK. 1 Duhbdin, January 4. The Chess Congress was resumed to. day. Cleland resigned to Hookham at the fifty- fourth move, and Monat resigned to Barnes at the eighteenth move. Brown beat Smith after a good game. Pleasants v Mellor— Pleasants opened with the Ruy Lopez, but gradually lost his position, and Mellor won a pawn and gained an exchange, and afterwards a queen for two rooks. Pleasants resigned at the fifty-fourth move, iielievre v Barton — Lelievre won after a lively and interesting game. In the Chess Congress, Brown «nd Barnes have now 6 wins and 3 losses with only one game to play, Cleland's score is 5 wins and 3 losses, Edwards and Hookhain's~'"s£ Vms to 21 losses with two games each to play...
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 207, 5 January 1894, Page 2
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