The Clifton Chronicle and Directory, Wednesday 26 September 1888:
"The Zukertort Chess Club, recently started to encourage the practice
of the game amongst the working classes, has already been the scene of
some capital chess entertainments. On the 12th inst. Herr Berdeleben contested
six games blindfolded against some of the best players in the club, winning
four and drawing two, while Messrs. Gunsberg and Gattie have both given
simultaneous performances, and Mr. Guest, the B.C.A. amateur champion for
the year, is down to provide a similar exhibition to-day. We learn that
the club is really appealing successfully, by these means, to the class
it was originally intended to benefit, and it is well, indeed, should this
prove to be the case, for if a love of chess as a recreation be a distinct
acquisition to men of time and means, it must be, to the working man proper,
far more valuable as one of the strongest inducements to keep him employing
his intellect in his spare time instead of occupying most of it in the
beerhouse. One of the finest problem composers, recently deceased, was
a blacksmith by trade."