Vou. THE CHESS PLAYER'S (NEW SERIES.) EDITED BY H. STAUNTON, ESQ. JANUARY, 1858. CONTENTS. Games. No. ‘Between Messrs. Anderssen and Dufresne . + - Between Messrs. Petroff and Szymanski; ' iL " Between Messrs. Petroff and Siewielunski . ¥ 13 } 4 Between Messrs. Staunton and Lowenthal | é 4 ae eee 7 Proprems. No. 1. By the Rey. H. Bolton. 3 $ a‘ & 31 } » 2 ByBrede| ‘ : 3 2 e ad et : 33 he é a % ob. ‘MIscELLANEOUs. Address to our Readers . = * # . . 1 Chess Correspondence . . ‘ . . . 19 Literature of Chess . ~ ‘ . . . 25 Notes and Queries on Chess. . . . . 28 Solutions of the Problems . é “ . . ib. LONDON: W. KENT AND CO., PUBLISHERS, , Nos. 51, 52, & 25, PATERNOSTER ROW. Seid aso by cuAREES J. sKEE, 21, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. ‘W. LEUCHARS, 38, PICCADILLY; H, DIXON, 172, FENCHURCH STREET; @, MANN, 39, CORNHILL; BELL AND BRADFUTE EDINBURGH; J. MIGLASHAN, DUBLIN; W. GRATED, LIVERPOOL; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS, PRICE Is. 6d.NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. ‘5. A. M. M,,” India.—Received with cordial thanks. “$3, Dunots,” Rome.—The back numbers shall be left for your friend at the publisher's. Those hereafter published you can perhaps ar- range to receive through some English bookeellar who han an egeney in Rome. We shall look impatiently for the promised games by Bonetti, Calvi, Discart, and other masters of the modern Italian school, whose abilities, notwithstanding the rarity of their published games, are well known and appreciated by British players. “W. A. M."—The game of “ Double Chess,” or “ Chess for Four,” we have no knowledge of whatever ; but there can be no difficulty in obtaining the rules. If they are not procurable where you bought your board, address a line to Leuchars, chess-board and dressing- case manufacturer, Piccadilly, London. « Prests,” — Club.—Those clubs which are desirous of being connected with the great assoc jon now forming for the northern and midland counties, should communicate with Mr. Alfred Fisher, Surveyor, Man- chester. CoLonna.—The biography of General Zuilen von Nieveld, although un- woidably postponed is oy Do means forgotten, “ Noration.”—We are obliged to you for the specimen of notation sent, which we can understand to be very serviceable in taking down games, &., but we think any abbreviation of the English system objectionable for works of instruction unless it combines with brevity, both clearness and precision. Your note was without signature. “D. W. H.”—Quite right. : +,* For the benefit of chess amateurs abroad, we beg to notify that this Magazine may be obtained direct from the Publisher's, at the trifing cost of one penny postage, in Ixpra, the Ustrep Stares, the whole of Burris America, in Peussta, BELGIUM, Hamuvxait, and the whole of France HA. F.—Try 1. B. to Q. B. square, 2. K. moves, 3. R to Q. second, ‘4. R.to Q. fourth, double check and mate. “ A\la F," St. Thomas.—Your analysis and games are now under exa- mination. The solutions are all correct. ‘A Sunscrimer, Somerser.—We think with you, that in the game men- tioned, Black would have had a decided advantage by the move you large increase of contributions for insertion during the past few weeks compels us to golicit the consideration and forbearanceof the ‘most, urgent correspondents. We wish heartily the Magazine was sufficiently eapacious to enable us to keep pace with our friends’ exertions; but asit is not, we can only endeavour to get through the arrears with as little delay and disappointment ax possible, ‘The following are prepared for press, and avait only room for publication:—Games by Jaenisch, Shumoff, Prince Onroussoff, Kireefski—Cochrane, Moheschunder, Petum. ber, Morton, Capt. Fulton, Craske—Wyville, Knight, Dubois, Calvi, Discart, Bonetti—Deacon; Mayet, De Rives, ‘Allix, Michales—Salmon, Blunden—Gamma, Delta,’ Me Coombe, Dr. ‘Robertson, Fraser, Major Robertson, Silas Angas,’ M, Ralli, Bigland, C. F. Smith, Burnell— Lowenthal, Captain Kennedy, Lord C—Stella and. Staunton.—“Axa- Loctes or THe Pawns,” by ¥. C. Cronhelm, Esq, President of the Halifax St. George's Chess Club. “Analysis of the Allgaier Gambit.” “The Slow Coaches,” by Cantab—Letters on the Problem Prizes, by C. M. J.—Oriental, and Philo-Chess. ‘The second notice of “Tax Crassicat Wartens ox Cass,” will appear in our next. “True Bive."—MatcH BETWEEN Messrs. Hanwttz AND WitttaMs, The first series of games between these players has terminated in a decisive vietory to the German, Mr. Williams not having scored one single game out of the ton played. ‘The second series has commenced, and we shall give the result in our next.THE CHESS PLAYER’S CHRONICLE. NEW SERIES. ADDRESS TO OUR READERS. Iv offering tothe pubic our fret numberof a new and more perfect geron of the Chess 's Chronicle, it seems uppropriate to make some remarks upon topics in which they and wo takean equal interest. ‘The serial work to which wwe are about to give, if wo do not deceive ourselves, a still moro valuable as ‘well as a still more entertaining character, has now for a long series of years stood at the hend ofall the Chess miscellanies of our times as an organ to which many cultivated minds have contributed their observations, and as a record in which havo been preserved a thousand minute particulars that would otherwise hhave been lost. ‘This is not morely a pardonable boast; it is more than any opinion; it is a ‘simple fact, as it were broad and clear,npon the fortunes and the fate of the Chess Player's Chronicle, and made evident by the reception which the public has gziven to it for alot a hundred and forty month. Lt now-—to borrow a phrase from the Harnspic calendar of the Romans—it is now in its third lustro, Tt is the ‘only serial treating professedly and exclusively of Chess, which throughout Euro er jeved an, anbroken and increasing settlement and establish- ‘ment based upon its own qualities, depending like any of the more general pro- ‘uctions of literature on it inherent mertes and trusting on the great soa of wublicity unhelped to intrinsic buoyancy. While on the Continent, and here’ at, begemoro Che prot chen we. teed enamalo bare wid, the cane period risen and fallen, and risen again, and again disappeared, or have adjournes erin tact leo nn gan nod span nppmare crave adel ventions,” discouraging oceasionally our faith in the literature of this delightful mental exercise, and perhaps mortifying a little the vanity of art, the Chess Player's Chronicle bas maintained an unshaken and unchanged position. Far Ye it from us to pronounce the idle vannt that this has beeu the effect of superior merit; we do not say so; but with a greater man than any of us, and one of the greatest that have ever lived, we will sayy “jeiitatem Heleetiorum Bello ene peropectam ;" an strange a8 it may sound, good fortune appears, in great things alike and in smal to havo always had rather the nator of» quality fhian of an necident; in ts vory madness tohave had a method ; and, shoogh VOL. XIV. B