Chess Champions

Lasker, the new champion, has every reason to pluine hiinself on this result, which is almost identical with the result of Steinitz versus Zukertort iu 1886 - 10 to 5, with five draws. Lasker has beaten the man who had beaten all the World f or 30 years or more. He has played iu the past five years 189 recorded games in matches and tournaments, of which 35 were drawn aud only 17 lost. It is enough to say that nobody has over shown such a record as that. Steiuitz, in Iris matches and tournaments, hasplayod 259, of which hedrew 78 and lost 81. He has played against stronger players, especially in toumaments, and has played a more open and hazardous game, content to be superior without reckoning by how much. No close comparison is possible between Lasker and Morphy, the less so because our fixed idea of Morphy recalls him as a youth of most subtle aud fortúnate imagination, which seemed to picture not only the natural effects of nis own moves, but the choices and misapprehensions of his antagonist. His style was above everything picturesque and we are losing the picturesque in chess or snould be losiug it if it were not for the brilliant eccentrics of the amateur clubs