TIDE TABLE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3539, 29 April 1880, Page 2

TIDE TABLE.

Last Quarter —2nd May, 1.31 a.m.

. Bell's Life records an extraordinary game of chess played by four gentlemen of Pressburg recently.- A brilliant table was the chess-board, and the sixty-four squares were duly chalked out. Each of the pieces was represented by a bottle of wine. Champaign wa.s the king, claret the queen, .Burgundy the bishops, port the castles, Maderia the Knights, and pint flasks of Hungarian wine the pawns. The one novel and original rule which governed the play was this:—Whenever a player took a "piece" he was to empty his own and*tbe captured "piece" at a draught. Unfortunately for the success of the v experiment the chessmen were more than a match for the players, all four of whom ignorainiously collapsed before the game was half finished. There is a limit, as experienced topers know, to drinking " no heel-taps," and if this new fashion of playing chess is ever to become popular there will have to be fewer " pieces." If four players are unable to consume thirtytwo bottles of mixed wines between them becoming iguobly drunk, what hope is there for two players? But, at any rate, no one can deny that this was a gallant attempt to relieve chess from tho charge of slowness.

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