Game Collection: Louisiana

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Events

Living Chess Exhibition (1879)
New Orleans CC Handicap Tournament (1879)

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History

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A chess club has been organized in this city.

New Orleans Price-Current, 1878.07.17, p6
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A Chess Club.

To Roundabout—Can you inform me if there are any chess rooms or club in the city where an amateur can go in and take a game, or look on occasionally? Chess Player.

Roundabout understands that in the city there is a private club where chess is played, but he does not know its locality.

New Orleans Times, 1879.03.27, p6
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A Game of Chess will be played With Living Pieces By two well known gentlemen, members of the New Orleans Chess Club.

New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1879.05.04, p3
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The Game of Chess.

The curtain next rose on the game of chess played with living pieces. On stage was laid out the squares of the chess board. The black pieces were represented by members of the Continental Guards in the British uniform, and the white pieces by members of the same command in the uniform of the Continentals.

The pawns were uniformed as privates, and the other pieces as officers of various grades, the distinction of rank on the chess board being denoted by appropriate head-pieces. The queens were represented by ladies in the costume of the time of George III. The game was played by Messrs. E. H. Farrar and L. L. Labatt, members of the New Orleans Chess Club.

New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1879.05.10, p1
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The New Orleans Chess Club last week played a series of games, resulting as follows:

New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1879.09.29, p4
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Game Collection: Louisiana