The severe, mental strain inseparable from a contest where one man's brains arc pitted against another’s is being strikingly exemplified in the present contest for the New Zealand Chess Championship (says the Otago Daily Times). Several of the competitors have at different stages found it necessary on more than one occasion to visit a chemist’s shop in search of headache wafers. The effect of the contest has been markedly shown in the case of Mr L. Warsaw, who in the present contest has made his debut in a championship tourney. It has been noticed that Mr Warsaw’s play is below even his usual club form. The flushed countenances of the various players, whether winners or losers, at once convince the casual spectator that there is more in a game of chess than is apparent on the surface^
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 713, 8 January 1903, Page 4
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137Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 713, 8 January 1903, Page 4
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