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About twenty-five players witnessed the exhibition of blindfold chess at the Chess Club rooms on Tuesday night. Mr. Pillsbury extended his usual limit and played eight simultaneous games instead of six. The additional length of the contest, as well as the difficulty of keeping so many positions in mind, was a severe strain on the blindfold player, and the Harvard players succeeded in making an even score. Mr. Pillsbury won from Ballou, Van Kleeck, and Spaulding, lost to MacKaye, Hewins, and a consultation table played by Dunn, Farrar, Lewis, and Starr, while games with Wilson and Webster were given...
...Pillsbury of the Boston Chess Club will give an exhibition of blindfold chess tonight at the rooms of the Harvard Chess Club, 25 Roberts Block, Brattle Street. Mr. Pillsbury will play six games at once, all blindfold, a feat seldom attempted by any player. His opponents will be MacKaye Sp., Wilson '94, Ballou '93, Van Kleek '95, Goldmark '94, and Hewins '96, Play begins at 7.30. All members of the University interested in chess are cordially invited...
...restrictions, which it would be ridiculous for a parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope. But the parent and teacher do the same thing all the time, and are greatly chagrined at the result. You wish to give the charge intrusted you a Christian character? By all means; there is abundant room...