<<Berlin chess states.>For a long time, the imperial city had rarely offered the chess reporter the opportunity to report anything positive about the chess going on there. The official central point, the chess society, had only been vegetating for years and was completely deprived of any, we might say, moral support after the death of Juztizrath Mayet. The guildless people of Caïssa had probably shown great enthusiasm at the time when our second editor moved to Berlin and had gathered around him, but as soon as he withdrew from the practical game due to lack of time, the new life also died out. Only shortly before the outbreak of war did the slumbering chess spirit awaken: the academic chess club was resurrected and brilliantly represented in the first row by Messrs. H. Metger and C. Sander; A small chess circle was formed in the circle of the craftsmen's association, which soon became independent and, as the Berlin chess club, is characterized by both the large number of its members and their lively enthusiasm; The lethargy of the old chess society should finally end.
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In January d. J. the first general meeting took place, in which a number of new members were accepted, including JH Zukertort. In the subsequent election of the board, after the previous first chairman, Dr. Pomtow, who had rejected possible re-election and recommended Zukertort as his successor, the latter was elected unanimously. Mr. Avellis emerged from the ballot box as second chairman, Mr. A. Wladimiroff as representative and Mr. Hugo Munk, one of the strongest chess players in Berlin, as secretary. The new board was instructed to find a more suitable meeting place in a better area of the city and to increase interest in chess in every possible way. For this purpose, Zukertort promised to play blindly in society and to give theoretical lectures, and also to draw the attention of the chess players in the residence to the chess society through the local press and to invite them to visit it. In the first days of February he gave a lecture on the Spanish game to a fairly large gathering. A few days later he called a general meeting at which the new restaurant Unter den Linden No. proposed by the board was approved. 8 was unanimously accepted, as were the two other suggestions made by the chairman: to organize a handicap tournament for the members of the society and the chess players in Berlin in general and to use the club treasury to procure the prizes if the stakes were not enough, also to invite Prof. A. Anderssen, who [???]
To use the Easter holidays for a chess match in Berlin. Finally, a playing committee was elected for the tournament, consisting of Messrs. J. Dufresne, H. Munk and JH Zukertort. On March 1st, the chess society moved to the new location, and it soon became a meeting point for the residence's chess friends. Not only on the official meeting evenings, Tuesdays and Fridays, but on all afternoons and evenings you can now find the Schöneberger Schlossbrauerei restaurant under den Linden No. 8 the drawing rooms are there a staircase where chess games are played. The tournament began on March 10th, and we will provide more detailed information about it and its course in the next issue.>
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