EXTRAORDINARY DRAUGHTSPLAYING FEAT.
Mi" William Strickland, of Leeds, the champion blindfold draughts-player, lately accomplished a great feat in draughts-playing at the Ceutral Club, Trongate, Glasgow. He undertook to play ten games simultaneously against as many opponents, and that, too, without peeing either boards or men. Play began about seven and concluded at eleven. After playing a couple of hours Mr Strickland said he would .call out the position of the pieces if it would prove of interest to the spectators, and this he did without a mistake showing that he had as good a view iu his "mind's eye" of the respective pieces as the players who had their boards before them. More surprising still, on the games being finished he repeated ail the moves made in the ten games (a total of nearly 450 moves); and then, the crowning feat of all, he gave every move backwards. The score four wins to Strickland, three win§ for his opponents, and three games drawn—is surprising when the skill of his antagonists is taken into account.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1158, 15 June 1880, Page 3
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