him ere now. Be assured of his heartiest congratulations. More by private letter.

T. H. (Manchester).-We are much obliged for your attention in sending an account of the match.

L. (Truro).-Not worth notice. The proceeding was asinine of course, but that goes with saying having regard to its

source.

E. O. (Leghorn).-The exchange is very welcome. We should be glad to complete our set of your extremely clever journal by the numbers for 1877. Our first volume will be sent to you, as requested, but as we began life in 1868 you will find our record has an "ancient" flavour.

E. H. (Shepherds Bush).-Too late for the present number. We have addressed a letter to you on the subject of the article.

EGUS (Capel Court).-The correction was necessary. You might also have corrected the word "Chambers "in the title of these PAPERS.

R. W. (Leipsic).-We are greatly obliged for the Book of the Congress. The error you point out is corrected else.

where.

K. K. (Prague).-The problems are very acceptable, and the gentlemen concerned express their thanks for the high compliment you pay them in the dedication.

WHIST.

F. D. A.-There is no law to prevent a player taking up his cards during the deal. The law puts the offender under certain disabilities and that is all. We have expressed our opinion on the subject more than once. We pointed out once that a player dealing out of turn has an advantage, but that if in addition to dealing out of turn he has a partner who looks at his cards, and finding them bad calls attention to the fact that the player is dealing out of turn, then he obtained a great additional advantage according to law, but contrary to all right and propriety. We think this point alone should be sufficient to prevent players taking up their cards.

H. C.—A clear revoke, because the revoking player's partner has led again.

C. X.-A plays a Club. X, second player, trumps it, and without waiting for the completion of the trick, leads the Ace of Clubs. Is the revoke complete ?-Ans. A revoke is complete if the trick is turned and quitted, or the player or his partner, whether in his right turn or not, leads again. X has revoked.

X.-Any player can call for new cards. His partner cannot prevent his doing so.

C. J.-A leads Club; B follows suit, C puts Heart, D plays Club Ace; B has a Club, and takes back his heart. Can D take back his Ace ?-Ans. Yes.

27.-Cutting. A cuts the cards. B, on taking them up, drops some of the cards. C claims misdeal.-Ans. The claim is void. There is nothing in the laws or the custom of the table to make this a misdeal. The play comes under the term "confusion of the cards," and there must be a fresh cut. T. T. H.-You cannot ignore anything you see at the Whist table. Because we do not like the signal for trumps, we cannot help seeing it and acting on it, and because we do not like the lowest but one card any more than you do, and never lead it ourselves, it would be madness not to notice it in other players.

WASHINGTON CLUB (Paris).-If H deals with the wrong pack, or out of turn, he keeps the same cards to the end of the rubber, unless new cards are called for.

W. C. C. (Cardiff).-The hands shall appear in the next number.

SINGLE DUMMY.

W. W. B. (Clifton).-Towards the end of a hand it is found that Dummy has one card more than the other players, owing to A having omitted to play from Dummy to one of his previous tricks. X Y claim a fresh deal, and reply upon Law 69. A objects, upon the ground that he is not liable for any errors he may make whence he can gain no advantage. X Y rejoin, Supposing Dummy does not play to a lead of trumps, would the extra trump be no advantage? Kindly give your opinion in your next issue.--Ans. The laws of Whist and the laws of Single Dummy are the same, with certain exceptions. This is not one of the exceptions. Law 69 prevails, and the adversaries may claim a fresh deal.

ECARTÉ.

N. W.-Do not two games at Ecarté exist, at one of which the maximum score in one hand is four, and the other the maximum score is three (inclusive of the one for the King in both instances)? Or if two different modes of scoring are not in vogue now, have they not been recently?-Ans. We know of no Ecarté Laws whereby a player could ever obtain more than three in one hand.

PIQUET.

29.-A player can call for new cards at any period of the game on paying for them; but the new cards cannot be used this deal if the pack is already cut.

NOTICE TO CHESS EDITORS.

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tournament now in progress at the Palais d'Industrie in Paris, 1
important affair of the kind the world has yet witnessed. Never,
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pionship, and never have individual claims to supremacy been t
likely to prove. Among the combatants there are to be found play
of Europe, and, for the first time, America is represented in the li
be in the Chess warrior any feeling of stern joy upon meeting foe
poor indeed who, preferring any claim to public repute for skill in
the lists appear Anderssen, hero of a hundred such fights and con
Vienna, losing the championship by a "tie game," lost the world f
to lose it; Rosenthal, to whose skill and pluck in a losing battl
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only one of the boards was there any consultation, and this was brought about by the interference of a nonmber. We advise the governing bodies of all Chess clubs to frame severe regulations for the extinction

man to parade the triumphs of the past in view of the engrossing interest of the present. The lay wisely cares not what he was and asks only what he is.

the gentlemen, whose names have been already mentioned, there have appeared in the lists Messrs. Englisch, Gifford, Pitschel, and Zukertort, the first and last named of this contingent being players of and the others, although less generally known to the world, are reckoned among the strong players of

eaders have already been informed, this meeting of Chess masters has been arranged under the most patronage. Social and Official France are represented in the Committee of Management; the State prizes in the form of Works of Art, of considerable value, and the general community have liberally fund for additional prizes in money. The regulations of the tourney provide that the competitors games each with all the others, drawn games to count half a point to each side, the time limit is one y fifteen moves, and the days of play are the Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in each week test is brought to a conclusion.

y commenced on the 18th ultimo, and the following is the result of it down to the 29th June, when tor had played eight games :

SCORE OF THE PARIS INTERNATIONAL TOURNEY TO 28TH JUNE, 1878. ach Competitor having played eight games. (Drawn games count half a point to each side.)

e seen from the foregoing, that the highest scores so far have been made by Winawer, Blackburne, l, whilst on an equality come Anderssen, Zukertort, and Clerc; M. Clerc is probably indebted for the accident of being drawn against Herr Pitschel so early the fray. The last-named gentleman y to repeat his Vienna performance, but we shall hope that, should he by any chance victory prospects of a superior player by winning or drawing a game, he will not withdraw from the tourney fort to do equal justice to all the others.

xists in London Chess circles a wide-spread feeling of satisfaction in respect of the position one of the

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Secretary of the Congress, to M. Rosenthal, and several other correspondents in Paris, for the games and information respecting the proceedings which have been furnished to us.

The following is the pairing for the remainder of the Tourney:

Mr. T. Young,

The return match between the above Clubs was played at Stourbridge, on Monday the 24th of June, again resulting in a victory for the Allies, drawn games counting half to each player. The following is the score:THE ALLIES.

WON.

BIRMINGHAM.

Rev. A. D. Nicholsor,

Mr. A. H. Griffiths,

Mr. E. P. Warren,

Mr. E. Shorthouse,

WON.

Mr. G. H. Mainwaring,

Mr. MacCarthy,

Mr. T. Hill,

Mr. F. Brown,

Mr. S. White,

...

Total,

Total,

...

The long pending match, at the odds of the Knight, between Miss Rudge and Mr. Thorold, has been abandoned as drawn by mutual consent, the score giving ten games to each side, with no draws. We hear that the lady player, who has won two shorter matches of a similar kind, being dissatisfied with the result, intends to issue a friendly challenge for another contest to be played shortly on the same conditions.

On the 14th inst. Mr. Potter played sixteen games simultaneously at the College Chess Club, Little Queen Street, Holborn, giving a Knight to each of his opponents. He won thirteen games, lost two, viz., to Messrs. Henty and Sharpe, and drew the remaining partie, which was with Miss Florence Down. Mr. Thomas Burdon, the president, was magnanimous enough to overlook the fact that he was one of the losers, and at the conclusion of the walking tour made a speech expressing the thanks of the members for the entertainment afforded to them by the visitor. A noticeable feature of the affair was the remarkable fairness with which the sitters conducted their games. At only one of the boards was there any consultation, and this was brought about by the interference of a nonmember. We advise the governing bodies of all Chess clubs to frame severe regulations for the extinction

of a practice which quite as often annoys as assists the players, and in any case deprives them of the pleasure of fighting their own battles. In the present instance Messrs. Henty and Sharpe had the satisfaction of winning their games, and Miss Down of drawing hers, by their own unaided exertions, and that is how it ought always to be.

The Ludgate Circus Chess Club and the City of London College Chess Club played a match at the rooms of the former, the People's Café, Ludgate Circus, on Monday evening, the 17th June, which resulted in a victory for the Ludgate Circus Chess Club, who won 9 games against 5 by the City of London College Chess Club.

In the match between Messrs. Potter and Heywood, at the alternate odds of Knight and Pawn and two moves, nine games have been played, four having been scored by Mr. Potter, against two won by Mr. Heywood, with three draws. Both the games won by the latter were at the odds of Pawn and two moves, and two of the draws were at the Knight. In the Lower Class Handicap at the City of London Club the surviving competitors are Messrs. Lord, Heywood, Pizzi, Tinsley, Hunnex, and Botterill.

The seventh annual meeting of the Canadian Chess Association will be held in Montreal on the 20th August next. Game and problem tourneys have been arranged, open, however, only to residents of the Dominion of Canada. Three prizes will be given in the playing tourney, value 40, 20, and 10 dollars respectively, and in the problem tourney the prizes are for the best in two, three, and four moves, ten dollars respectively. We shall be glad to receive some specimens of the skill of our Canadian brethren in the two branches of the game about to be displayed in this tourney.

We have to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the last volume of the Nuova Rivista degli Scacchi. The contents include, among other good things, the problems contributed to the tourney organized by the Editor some time ago, and from these we extract the following pair to which was awarded the first and second prize respectively. IST PRIZE. Scaccomania. 2ND PRIZE. A Study.

One of those agreeable garden parties, with which the name of Mr. H. F. Gastineau has for so many years past been associated, was given by that gentleman on the 29th ultimo, and was largely attended by metropolitan Chess-players. The guests of the occasion included Messrs. Boden, Ballard, Chappell, Delannoy, Down, Duffy, Gumpel, Hirschfeldt, Macdonnell, Murton, Potter, Schnitzler, and many others. The change from the stones and broiling atmosphere of town to the pleasant turf and bright flowers of Mr. Gastineau's suburban residence had a most enlivening effect upon the guests, and their cheerfulness was not lessened, to say the least of it, by the excellent dinner provided by their host and the hospitable ministrations of Charlie. After the repast, two toasts were given, the first, proposed by Mr. Gastineau-" Prosperity to the City Club," and the second, "The Health of the Host," proposed by Mr. Macdonnell, in his usual effective vein of prandial oratory. Both toasts, it is needless to say, were enthusiastically received, and the company then adjourned to the garden, most of them engaging in Chess, and the rest in the conversation that the miscalled silent game never fails to suggest to its votaries. The guests did not separate until a late hour, and each congratulated himself and his host upon having passed a very pleasant day and evening.