Paris society is taking a deep interest in the eight-year-old Polish chess player Samuel Reeszesky, whose wonderful skill was witnessed at a brilliant gathering arranged at the Hotel Majestic by Princess George of Greece. Samuel played 20 simultaneous games with as many well-known Parisian chess players. The boy, who was dress. ed as usual in a little sailor suit, started playing immediately—on his arrival on tke scene and passed rapidly from board to board, smiling pleasantly as he moved each piece with unfaltering confidence and skill. He won 17 of 20 games, drew in the case of two, and lost the remaining one. Alfred Capus, the Academician, was among those defeated by the Polish prodigy in knickerbockers.
Among the distinguished spectators were the Princess Sixt of Bourborn Parma, the Due and Duchess of Doudeauville and their daughter Madame de Larochefoucauld, the Duc de Mouchy, and Prince Radziwill. During' the evening the Comtesse de Beauchamp made a collection on the boy's behalf, which produced 500 francs, that will be used to send him into the country for a holiday.
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