Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1914 — Chess. [ARTICLE]

Chess.

Chess is known as the Royal Game and deserves the name. It is the old* est of games, having been played in approximately Its present form for more than a thousand years; in exactly its present form for centuries. Its devotees are found the world over, England, Germany, Austria, France, Russia, Cuba and the United States being represented in the St Petersburg tourney. It is a game of pure skill and infinite opportunities for profound thought and depths of resource, and the only objection to it, perhaps, is that it Is too serious for a game, not serious enough for' a profession. Nevertheless it gives delight to thousands the world over, and as a means for storing up happiness for old age it is probably unsurpassed.