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Descriptive text from separate pages at the back which cannot be supplied (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
A CHESS MATCH.
Golfers have arrogated to their pastime the title of "ancient and honourable." There are probably not a few other pastimes which might successfully contest with golf the right to such a description; and first among the claimants would assuredly stand the game of chess—a game whose origin is lost in the mists of antiquity, and whose very nomenclature stamps it as the game of kings. We here see a match in progress in the rooms of the City of London Chess Club. The club, which is one of the oldest and strongest in the Empire, if not in the world, has a history of over forty years, and counts among its members, past and present, some of the most eminent exponents of the game,