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A chess chat. - From P. Kerkovius.

There was a time when I was the only chess master from theirs Was able to judge games. The so-called "small Dufresne" contains As is well known, well over a hundred selected sample games, the countless ones have given aspiring chess disciples inspiration and instruction. Like so many others, I also have the first, more detailed knowledge in theory from that textbook of the game of chess and all the beautiful parts studied with zeal without omissions. The Kämpen Anderssen, Morphy, Paulsen, Zukertort, Steinitz, Tschigorin, Schallopp, Tarrasch and like the luminaries at sixty-four Fields may be called, they were very soon as familiar to me as good acquaintances and the picture soon appeared in the active imagination of every single chess hero sharply delineated and subtly elaborated there. The world champion Wilhelm Steinitz z. B., whose great victory about Zukertort in 1886 me with shy awe of the mighty Man's achievements fulfilled lived in my imagination as a tall, imposing man with real Germanic facial features, cool, closed and taciturn. I imagined Emil Schallopp small in growth, not a little taken up by its shiny Type of game and its performance in tournaments. I held Chigorin also like Steinitz for a man of powerful stature, but with gentle, flattering manners. That's how I created the picture of every master; with personal acquaintance, however, these fell Fantasy products together in nothing, because the real people stood out very much from them.

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin! The little man with the one The upper part of the body, which does not tend towards the embon point, is without question the type of one neat basses. How well his thick brunette hair looks and the carefully groomed, short-cropped, pointed whiskers. Our Mikhail Ivanovich is nervous and hasty, both in Geberden and gestures, as in conversations. There is something unsteady and restless in its essence; you only need to talk to him for a short time, to the cause of his famous gross flaw in beautifully landscaped To have recognized tournament games. With such a stormy one Temperament it is indeed understandable that such bad blunders passireu can, such as B. in the last tournament game against Steinitz in Havana anno 1892 or against Blackburne in Vienna 1898. Now one understands it immediately that despite his extraordinary complaint for Chigorin chess simply because of his hot-blooded nature a Tarrasch, Lasker, Janowski or Pillsbury in the long run

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never grown in it. The Pole Janowski also plays unequal *), but but not nearly as high as the Russian pioneer.

*) When Janowski suffered a failure in Cologne the previous year, he compared his play with Queen Maria Stuart of Scotland with a fine sense of humor: "Nice but unhappy. "

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Tschigorin is a chess player and always only a chess player. Another A topic of conversation does not exist for him. You always do that again Try to talk to him about other things, it won't help, soon is the master with his thoughts back on the black and white Fields with the deep combinations. But if you leave Chigorin To ride one's hobby horse unhindered, one can hardly find one think more amusing companions. From the treasure of his interesting He understands tournament memories as vivid and gripping descriptions design. Quite a few amusing occurrences, reproduced in the Press is not possible, the Russian master has in a cozy circle given for the best.
I had correctly guessed the ingratiating behavior. Chigorin has earned many followers during his two-time stays in Riga, and mainly because of its always constant
amiable manners. It is difficult for him to refuse a request. We saw it in Riga that he was looking for a
exhausting simultaneous games immediately agreed to the call obey a handicap game. The master lives and weaves in Knows chess and its courtesy, which has been shown to all eager amateurs no limits. The greatest conceivable contrast to Chigorin is his old chess companion Emanuel Schiffers. Every movement is slow, calm and measured on this master. You can't have a more carefree person present on the chessboard as Schiffers. I had the opportunity to im 1894 when he and Andreas Ascharin had a little
Match played. The outcome of the games seemed to be based on the expression on the face to conclude that the Petersburg master doesn't really care. I have no outstanding chess player as disinterested as this one see playing. With such a high degree of "carelessness" one is allowed to the unequal gymnastics performances of Schiffers are not surprising to take. Even in personal intercourse, the master makes the impression as if everything in this world interested him halfway. It is one quite peculiar indifference and reticence resulting from this Confident speaks. Only now and then does it appear as if true, lively life in the robustly built body with the beautiful,

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gray-bearded character head show up. Then Schiffers begins very stimulating to chat, and some apt joke tells of this
healthy, dry humor that inspires the master.

When on a January morning in 1896 the board of the Riga Chess Association found themselves at the local Dwinsk railway station had to meet the old master Steinitz expected from St. Petersburg received, it took a long time for the late train to arrive with the help of a servant the former champion rose from the world. That the outer appearance of the famous chess player does not belong to the brain structure from my high school days, I've had for a long time find out beforehand. But I still had the Anglo-Austrian presented more stately than is actually the case. Steinitz was then 60 years old, but made as a result of his physical suffering an older impression. Have gout-tormented limbs
had compelled him for several years to become a permanent one To take refuge in the cane and for longer walks on the Support arm of a companion. The plump little man with the short legs and the Semitic face cut makes in the first Moment a decidedly unpleasant impression, especially when you are Face framed by reddish head and beard hair viewed en face. However, one soon gets used to the appearance of the master and I find that in profile looks at Steinitz's head at times when the old man looks at the Look seriously and thoughtfully at the chessboard, not just very sympathetic, but also highly impressive and dignified appears. The eyes look so cunningly and cleverly into the world that mighty forehead is made for this thinker to be behind the same to devise the most treacherous and complex combinations.

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I was very interested in seeing the master at the chess table watch when he was in the chess club against three of the strongest Baltic Player fought out a consultation game. I sat next to Steinitz, noted his trains and regulated his clock. When it was the master's turn, whistle or he kept humming softly to himself as he thought and the face was wrapped in deep seriousness, only the little eyes couldn't give up the sly expression. Steinitz had his When he moved, he put various questions to me about the Riga people Circumstances, or he told all kinds of funny little anecdotes always pulling a cigar, because he is a colossal smoker and always has a glow in his mouth.
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To give the best. Steinitz speaks very quickly and hastily sometimes. He is full of good ideas and humorous stories. The old master has quite a few personalities who play a role in politics played, got to know; so he can z. B. Much of the interesting about the late British statesman Lord Randolph Churchill whom he taught chess for a long time.

Once there was an argument about whether it was individual matches or international Tournaments are a better test of a chess player's skill. "I can prove it to you mathematically," said Steinitz Ascharin, "that a match is 27 times as far as a tournament." "I'm curious about that," replied our Baltic master Thing is very simple, "continued the champion," Dr. Tarrasch has in 3 tournaments (Breslau, Manchester and Dresden) only lost one game, in the Petersburg match against Chigorin, however, 9 games; herewith is proved that a match is worth 9 times as much as 3 tournaments, therefore 27 times as much as a single one. "Roaring laughter followed this fine argument.
Steinitz knows the characteristics very nicely, even in brief strokes of his famous Schacli colleagues to design, Louis Paulsen's absent-mindedness or portray Pillsbury's confidence and cold bloodedness. The Master's memory is amazing. One day I visited him in his hotel. Steinitz, who is an enthusiastic supporter of the Kneipp family Theories is, had just taken his daily cold bath and was lying now, wrapped up to the neck in woolen blankets, in bed. We came to speak of politics and, in this regard, of the great first chancellor of the German Empire. "I got in one many years ago political WTitzblatt read an excellent poem in honor of Bismarck ", said Steinitz, ... I can quote it. "Then without even musing for a moment, he began, and said a few minutes demanding poem frighteningly quick and without the slightest Stall flawlessly. "Have you written that thing down?" I asked. "Oh no," was the answer, "because the verses are very much to me I have read it a couple of times and so far with ease to keep."

There was a lot in chess journals and newspapers in earlier years I often read that Steinitz's character leads to intolerance and argument lean. As far as I know the old master, I have to make such statements knit deny. Steinitz is a very easy one
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has expressed. I don't remember a single bitter one Word or sharp criticism from his mouth about some chess master to have heard. The mildness of the set age is above spread over his whole being.

"Do us the only favor and knock the lasker
thoroughly to Moscow! "That was the wish everyone at the station Riga chess friends gathered opposite the outgoing master expressed. "Whatever is in my power should be done to avoid defeat to make amends in America, "read the hopeful
Answer. Unfortunately the expectation has become shameful, the sick one old man can no longer withstand the youthful Lasker. But who knows, maybe Steinitz will be able to talk to the Great Elector of Brandenburg say: "Exoriare aliquis ex nostris ossibus ultor" Pillsbury is a student of the old master and the spiritual heir to his chess art. What about a Pillsbury-Lasker match? Well, qui
vivra, verra!
The Nuremberg Doctor Siegbert Tarrasch is a accomplished man of the world, a gentleman from head to toe. His topic of conversation is not almost exclusively chess as with the Russian champion, o no, the German master has many interests and is a man of universal education. Dr. Tarrasch knows his achievements in the royal To judge and appreciate games; he is what he is
can, fully consciously and not at all bother, subdue his light to ask the bushel. You just need your autobiography in that Book to have read "300 games of chess" to be clear about this be. "False modesty is alien to me," said the Doctor in Riga; "A good man," he added, "doesn't need his skills to hide. "
Tarrasch is of medium, slight growth; the gold glasses gives its appearance a scholarly touch. Especially excellent was his blind production in Riga against 0 opponents he all struck in a relatively short time. Since then, the Nuremberg Master, however, gave up attacking games without looking at the board and not held a single seance.

Personally, I am particularly impressed by the doctor's successes because Tarrasch is not a professional player, but an amateur. No Chess lover who is not entirely dedicated to noble games ever performed as brilliantly as this man.
Tschigorin, Pillsbury, Lasker and Steinitz, they are all professionals ", Tarrasch, all alone among all the first-rate masters, runs the game 21 *

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just for pleasure. That is a great deed, and not high enough can be estimated.

In case I think of a chess master at a very young age especially wrong picture, then this applies primarily Emil Schallopp. When I first met the Berlin master saw - it was in March 1892 in Berlin in the German Reichstag building, where I negotiated with him about a match with Asharin - was I'm not a little astonished to see a tall, stately man from his face adorned with white-gray hair and beard pair of friendly blue eyes looked at me. Schallopp is a sedate calm nature, a real North German. I've known him well since then learned, because since 1869 the master - he is known to be the chairman dss stenographic bureau of the German Reichtag - with little Exceptions almost always are the shorthand work at the sessions of the Livonian Parliament in Riga. In the years 1893, 1896 and in 1898 Schallopp was in Riga while he was there His busy time allowed him to be a lively guest in been to the premises of the Riga Chess Club and played through simultaneous play and consultation games contributed a lot to the promotion of chess life. During Asharin's lifetime the main interest was concentrated of course on the games between the two masters
Discharge and all of them in the chess column of the "Rig. Tgbl. " have been published.
Schallopp is not a professional player either; prevent his or her professional duties hence dedicating as much time as before to the beloved game The failures of recent years are also written down. By the end of the In the eighties, Schallopp was one of the most feared opponents of the international tournaments; in Germany and England he has quite a few Prize carried away. Since then, as I said, has been more brilliant and brilliant Game type suffered as a result of a lack of practice. Also as a chess writer Schallopp has earned a good reputation. His publications about the championship tournaments in Leipzig, Paris, Berlin, Nuremberg and Hastings are excellent collections of games, which are divided by a distinguish a solid gloss finish. Schallopp has also managed the since 1885 weekly chess column in the Hallenser "Saale-Zeitung"; this column is really exemplary edited and is undoubtedly the most interesting of all ever came to my face In addition, Schallopp has been since Jean Dufresne's Tode (1893) chess editor of "Ueber Land und Meer" -

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circling happily. His unpretentious, calm demeanor, free from Arrogance and presumption, his amiable willingness, Going for a walk with well-known amateurs at any time has something for him Acquired a circle of followers who truly value him, not only as a chess player, but also as a person. Hopefully we are often granted the honored German master as a guest in the Riga Chess Club, of which he is an honorary member to be able to. With this wish I allow myself the little chat to end. (From "Rigaer Tageblatt" 1899).

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Collected Baltic chess games from the years 1854 to 1896.

From my almost complete collection of all Baltic chess columns, beginning with the Saturday column of the "Revaler Observer" (first Number dated February 28, 1881) and continued up to this point, are the following Baltic lots No. 48 to 104 removed from the majority. Some of these come from the weekly chess columns of "Petersburger Zeitung" and the "Petersburg Herald." The games are arranged in chronological order and subsequently Issue 6 (there on p. 171 Part No. 47) numbered. It contained Volume 1 (Issues 1 to 4) of the "Baltic Schachblätter" from the Periods from 1838 to 1892 a total of 131 Baltic games. Out even earlier we only have the end position of the in 1799 in the living chess game listed in the Dorpater resource (see p. 256), and a game from around 1815 (vol. 1, p. 15), both recorded from my grandfather Carl Ph. Amelung (born 1769, died 1817). In the final volume of Volume 2, I hope to see a copy of the ones we received Baltic chess games from 1897 to 1899 and continue as far as possible the collection, which then a full century includes, through some older games, played by L. Kieseritzky (b. 1800, died 1853) and our old master E. von Schmidt, who is still alive (born 1821) to supplement and complete.

Mirror factory Catharina

1./13. March 1899.
F. Amelung.

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48. Irregular opening 1.

The following game is from F. Amelung in Fellin as early as 1857 noted from an older year of the "Leipziger Illustr. Ztg. " been taken. From 1850 to 1854 J. Natanson
was the strongest player in the Baltic university city (see about him and the still living Baltic chess veteran Dr. E. Schmidt in "Balt. Chess bl. p. 18 ff. ")

Played in Dorpat in 1854.
(Notes by F. Amelung.)

Event "Dorpat"
Site "Dorpat
Date "1854.??.??"
Result "0-1"
White "J Natanson"
Black "Eugen Johann Heinrich Schmidt"
Source "Baltische Schachblatter Heft 7 pp. 324-25"

1.e4 e5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2 Nc6 6.O-O Rad8 7.Nba3 h6 8.Bc4 Qe4 9.d3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Qxf3 11.gxf3 a6 12.f4 b5 13.Bb3 Rxd3 14.Bc2 Rd7 15.Be4 Na7 16.Nc2 Nf6 17.Bg2 Bd6 18.a4 0-0 19.axb5 axb5

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Vogt vs Clemenz

Event "Dorpat"
Site "Dorpat
Date "1866.04.22"
Result "0-1"
White "J Natanson"
Black "Eugen Johann Heinrich Schmidt"
Source "Baltische Schachblatter Heft 7 pp. 324-25"

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Baltische Schachblatter Heft 7 pp. 379-437 1st Baltic Congress

The first Baltic Chess Congress, held in Riga April 11-18, 1899.

No. 1. - Baltic Chess Tournament in Riga 1899.
According to the resolution of the Assembly of Delegates of the Baltic Chess The association that took place in Riga on April 2, 1898, allowed itself the undersigned Board of Directors of the Riga Chess Association in agreementwith the meeting secretary Mr. F Amelung, the program for the 1st Baltic Chess Tournament to publish.

Program.
Sunday, April 11, 1899, 10 a.m.: meeting of the
Participants in the lower hall of the great guild; there greeting the Guests; Election of a tournament arbitration board; Draw for the main tournament and side tournament. This is followed by a meeting of the delegates Assembly. 7 o'clock in the evening: start of tournaments. Monday and following Days: continuation of the tournaments. Thursday April 15, 6 a.m. In the evening: dinner. End of the tournament: Saturday, 17th resp. Sunday April 18th.

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Regulations for the tournaments.

1) Only members are allowed to actively participate in the tournaments the Baltic chess clubs who contribute to the tournament fund as well as Balts who do not belong to any Baltic clubs like them domiciled in or outside the provinces of Livonia, Estonia and Courland to have.

Note: The delegate decides on admission to the tournament Assembly.

2) There will be a main and a side tournament. - 3) The Use for members of the Baltic chess clubs is in the main tournament 5 rub. and in the side tournament 2 rubles; for no Baltic clubs Belonging Balts the stake in the main tournament is 10 rubles, in Side tournament 5 rub. - 4) Every participant in the tournament is before the start of the tournaments obliged to pay a penalty in addition to the stake. The penalty for the main tournament is 5 rubles, for the side tournament 3 rub. These deposits will be refunded after the tournament has ended. However, if a player leaves without having finished all games have, out, his repentance money is forfeited. - 5) The registrations for the tournament are to the President of the Riga Chess Club, Mr. Editor Paul Kerkovius, Elisabethstrasse 12, I., by April 1, 1899 at the latest to judge.

6) In the main tournament is
1st price: 200 rub.
"2." 125 "
"3." 75 "
"4." 50 "
The right to increase the prices is reserved in the event of strong participation. In the side tournament the 4 prizes are: 35 rubles, 25 rubles, 15 and 10 rub.
Note: For this prize fund, the organ of the Riga Chess Club, the "Rigaer Tageblatt", donated 100 rubles; likewise the "Düna-Ztg." 100 rubles, as well as a great deal for the Baltic chess life making "Anonymous" 100 rubles.
7) The tournament arbitration board reserves the right to determine too strong Reject players who have registered for the side tournament. 8) Every participant is obliged to call up all games to complete his full playing strength.
9) If one of the participants drops out before the end of the tournament, so all games he has not yet played are counted as lost.

10) The main tournament has up to 12 participants each with each to play a game; if there are larger numbers, the game is played in groups (according to the same mode as in the main tournament of the German Chess Federation). In the side tournament, if more than 8 players take part, the same applies played in groups.
11) The 1st and 2nd prize will take place with the same number of Winning games a trick play instead. Finds at lower prices Division takes place.
12) The pairing of the opponents and the order of those to be played Lots as well as the arrangement of the arrival and departure is due determined by the draw that took place on April 11th. 13) A game played is awarded to the winner with 1, the loser with 0, counted for draw games.
14) As a rule, 2 games are played a day, namely the 1. from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. and the second from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. 15) The main tournament is played by the clock. There are in the To make a total of 40 moves in the first two hours, from then on 20 moves in the hour, but the time saved is good for later trains. Transfer the time results in the loss of the game. The clock is like this position so that the face can be seen by both players. 16) If a player does not appear at the stipulated game hour, so his clock is started and the elapsed time is credited to him. In the event of a two-hour delay, the game applies to the opponent as won, and if this also missed the deadline, for both as lost.
17) If a game is abandoned before it is finished, the on the train his train to a member of the arbitral tribunal in to hand over the closed envelope. Hanging games are in the course of the To end the tournament duration.
18) To analyze an interrupted game in the meantime, is forbidden, as is any influence of others on the Corridor of the same.
19) Infringements can be made by decision of the arbitral tribunal Result in loss of the relevant game or exclusion from the tournament. 20) The usual gambling laws apply according to the latest edition of the Bilguer'sclien manual with the proviso that that if moves and series of moves are repeated three times, the game is a draw is to be explained.
21) Private appointments between the participants on the The course of the games can have an influence are inadmissible and 382 Baltic chess sheets.
can result in exclusion from the tournament. Violations of Game regulations are devoid of those who notice them Bring consideration to the knowledge of the arbitral tribunal. Disruptions the player are to be avoided.
22) Every player is obliged to keep a correct and clear record to make the game during the game and to follow the manuscript Hand over the end of the game to a member of the arbitral tribunal. Fail If someone obeys this rule, he will lose y2
Game punished which, however, is not good for the opponent. 23) All differences are subject to the decision of the Arbitration.
The board of the Riga Chess Club:
Paul Kerkovius. W Svenson. Ernst hen. A. Lüth.
C. Behting.
(From "Nordlivländische Ztg.").

No. 2. - Baltic chess tournament.
The opening of the first Baltic Chess Congress at which the Delegates of the chess clubs of Riga, Jurjew, Reval, Libau, Mitau and Bauske took part in the program on Sunday, April 11, 1899, at 10 a.m. in the lower hall of the great guild. After this the President of the Riga Chess Club, Mr. Editor P Kerkovius, the Welcoming guests. the delegates' meeting came about. It were held in the constituent assembly of delegates from The program drawn up on April 2, 1898, made some changes and then the meeting secretary, Ms. Amelung, thanked the meeting pronounced for his devoted effort. Mr. Amelung
was elected secretary for two more years.
The offer of the Juriev Chess Club, the hosting of the second Baltic chess tournament in 1901 was to take over unanimously accepted.
Mrs. Amelung, H. Seyboth
and P. Kerkovius elected.
At 7 o'clock in the evening the tournament began with the following players participated. At the main tournament: Th. Müller, E. Wagenheim, Robert and Carl Behting, J. Zabludowski, N. Milewski from Riga; Hans Seyboth, K. Rosenkrantz, K. Bankowitsch from St. Petersburg; C. v. Wiekmann, Dr. Son from Reval; Ernst Brasclie from Jurjew; at the side tournament: W. v. Stamm, Th. Germann, F. Rummel, A. Paeglit from Riga; W. Nerling from Yuryev; A. Strandmann from Grenzthal; J. Sehwers from Kunda; Dr. H. Adolphi and E. Schewitz from Mitau.

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To the tournament, the unpopular group division, which at .13 participants should enter, conclude according to the program to let was Mr. Head Teacher W. Svenson, who went to the main tournament had reported, resigned. This course of action was certainly one of the most beautiful sacrifices ever made at a chess tournament. The tournament went without any disturbance and ended on the evening of April 18. At the beginning, H. Seyboth was in charge because he was in the consistently won the first four rounds. After the sixth Round, in which Seyboth suffered his first loss to Brasche, stood Wagenheim with 5 * / 2 points at the top, followed by Seyboth with 41 / g, Brasche with 4, Müller with 3Y2, R. Behting, Zabludowski and Rosenkrantz with 3 winning games. From here on the picture began to look gradually to move. Wagenheim and Seyboth lost some games,
while Robert Behting, Rosenkrantz and C. Behting, of which by name the latter had started the tournament with poor results, incessantly moved upwards. After the penultimate lap they stood with 672 points each at the top. Since R. Behting and K. Rosenkrantz too remained victorious in the last round, so came the same with each 7 V2 counters in the first place. A game of stitches played between them ended in favor of R. Behting. The result of the main tournament can be seen from the following table:

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Accordingly, received:
1st prize: Mr. Robert Behting (Riga), 71 / «Points, 200 rub. 25th
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2nd prize: Mr. K. Rosenkrantz (Petersburg - Libau), 7 * / 2 Points, 125 rub.
III. 1st and 4th prize shared between Messrs. Hans Seyboth (Petersburg), E. Wagenheim (Riga) and Carl Behting (Riga) - j0 6 ^ 2 points, 75 and 50 rubles.
The following were also presented: Mr Rob. Behting a golden token, the other winners receive silver tokens.
The results of the side tournament are shown in the following table:

The prices fell accordingly:
I. Prize: Mr. W v. Stamm (Riga), 6 Points, 35 rub. 2nd prize: Mr. W Nerling (Jurjew), 5y2 points, 25 rubles. III. Prize: Mr. A. Strandmann (Grenzthal bei Bauske), 5 Points, 15 rubles
IV price shared between Mr. J. Sehwers (Port Kunda) and Dr. H. Adolphi (Mitau), 4 points, 10 rubles. The first prize winner in the side tournament received a silver token. On the evening of April 14th the guns rested and one in honor of the The gala dinner organized by tournament participants created the chess friends A pleasant get-together from near and far. There were speeches held and toasted to the guests, the meeting secretary Mr. F. Amelung, the Riga chess club, the press, etc. For reading received a letter of congratulations from the German chess master Emil Schallopp, in which Mr. Schallopp attended the first Baltic chess congress wished the best course. The meeting decided that to convey the thanks of the participants by telegram to German masters, as well as Professor Dr. Eugene v. Schmidt in Frei bürg im Breisgau, the nestor of the Baltic chess art, the greeting of the To send the celebratory meeting by wire. Finally it was Sent a telegram to Mr. M. Tschigorin in St. Peterburg, in which of his was thought of as the initiator of the Baltic tournaments. On Thursday I received the following answer from Petersburg: "Thank you for the attention, I warmly salute the good, sympathetic Company and send to the participants and organizers of the tournament best greetings. Bravo! Chigorin. "
The participants united again at the award ceremony frugal dinner. Divorced after a long happy get-together then the guests of each other and the first Baltic Chess Congress was over. We sincerely wish that the first major joint Companies in the Baltic chess area not only for the award winners, but all who participated actively or passively in the same thing, always one pleasant memories remain. May the same unity of our chess clubs to inspire further events! - C. Beliting.
(From "Diina-Ztg." 1899. No. 97.)

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