Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — Extraordinary Chess-Playing. [ARTICLE]

Extraordinary Chess-Playing.

The Case International was the scene last evening of an unusual spectacle, James Mason playing seventeen games of chess simultaneously against seventeen different players. The latter sat in rows at their tallies, pondering over their pieces, while Mason passed from one to the other, pausing only long enough to see the last move made in his absence, and to make an answering move. The seventeen games were finished within about three hours. Three were drawn, and fourteen were victorious for Mason. —Neui York Nun.