Adelaide - Entertainment and the Arts

Chess

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Information on the game in Adelaide is in the Register,
3 October 1857, page 2f.

A proposed chess club is discussed in the Register,
25 February 1864, page 2e; also see
31 May 1864, page 2h,
16 June 1864, page 2f,
4 July 1864, page 2h,
19 June 1865, page 2e (telegraphic chess),
25 June 1867, page 2g,
10, 15,16 and 26 July 1867, pages 3f, 2h, 2f and 2e,
25 February 1868, page 2f,
9 and 23 September 1869, pages 2g and 2f; also see
Express,
31 July 1868, page 2d,
1 September 1870, page 2d,
1 September 1871, page 2c,
10 February 1874, page 3d,
Observer,
18 March 1876, page 7e,
Register,
13 September 1876, page 5c,
Express,
13 September 1876, page 2c,
Advertiser,
15 May 1879, page 6d,
Frearson's Weekly,
4 November 1882, page 615,
Express,
17 October 1883, page 3b.
An 1872 photograph of players is in the Observer,
4 March 1905, page 25.
A blindfold chess exhibition is reported in the Advertiser,
13 May 1885, page 5g; also see
15 September 1886, page 3d.

A chess club meeting is reported in the Observer,
2 November 1878, page 21e,
Register,
17 October 1883, page 6e; also see
15 October 1884, page 7h,
Observer,
18 October 1884, page 32e,
Chronicle,
10 January 1885, page 16d,
18 September 1886, page 16b,
Register,
27 and 29 August 1887, pages 6e and 5b,
10 September 1889, page 6h,
1 October 1890, page 3a,
Observer,
4 October 1890, page 34b,
24 March 1894, page 32e,
2 June 1894, page 36a,
Register,
22 September 1891, page 3f,
21 June 1900, page 4d,
9 November 1892, page 4h.

Information on the Union Chess and Draught Club is in the Register,
3 January 1885, page 5d.

An inter-colonial chess conference is reported in the Register,
18 and 20 August 1887, pages 6f and 6e,
Observer,
20 and 27 August 1887, pages 30e and 31d,
3 September 1887, page 43d.

A presentation to H. Charlick is reported in the Register,
24 March 1886, page 5b.
Biographical details of Henry Charlick, a champion chess player, are in the Observer,
11 July 1914, page 37c,
an obituary is in the Register on
28 July 1916, page 5b;
a portrait and other information are in Frearson's Weekly,
14 July 1883, pages 360-361;
a photograph is in the Pictorial Australian in
August 1887, page 120.

The old Mechanics' Institute afforded old boys many treats, intellectually and otherwise. Chess and draughts were games which the Governors permitted to be played in a room set apart for the purpose. This was the occasion of developing the talents of the best chess player South Australia has ever privileged to claim. During 1858 Henry Charlick, a mere boy, was in the habit of attending the old Institute in Neales's Buildings, Gresham Chambers and there he defeated the Adelaide veterans. Subsequently he tried his hand at playing two games simultaneously blindfolded, both of which the youth won in brilliant style.

A chess championship is reported upon in the Register,
24 March 1894, page 7g.

An editorial on a chess championship is in the Advertiser,
7 April 1894, page 4e,
15 July 1895, page 4f; also see
Express,
2 and 30 May 1894, pages 3e and 3f,
6 May 1895, page 4c,
Advertiser,
18 July 1895, page 5f,
7 November 1896, page 4h,
Express,
31 August 1897, page 4b,
21 September 1897, page 4b,
9 July 1898, page 6f,
20 April 1899, page 4b,
19 March 1901, page 4c,
25 October 1901, page 3f.
Sketches are in the Pictorial Australian in
August 1887, page 120.

An obituary of R.C. Earl is in the Observer,
27 April 1895, page 31a.

Biographical details of W.J. McArthur, state champion, are in the Observer,
17 August 1895, page 16a.

An obituary of John Mann, "a founder of the Adelaide Chess Club", is in the Register,
24 February 1899, page 6f.

The participation of C.J.S. Shuttleworth and A.M. Simpson in chess is discussed in the Observer,
17 and 31 January 1903, pages 25a and 24c.

A photograph of 1872 chess players is in the Observer,
4 March 1905, page 23,
of a chess jubilee in The Critic,
23 December 1914, page 15.

The SA chess championship of 1911 is reported in the Observer,
29 July 1911, page 55a - it includes a photograph of the finalists.

Biographical details of W.C. Simmons are in the Observer,
20 August 1921, page 44b,
of F.W.H. Fuss on
22 March 1924, page 46c.

"Chess - Some Local History" is in the Register,
9 July 1921, page 7f; also see
22 June 1921, page 7h.
"F.W.H. Fuss, Early Settler and Chess Player" appears on
13 March 1924, page 11d.
A history of the Adelaide Chess Club is in The News,
11 August 1927, page 11a.

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