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THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN . PHILADELPHIA, Fill DA Y . APRIL 21, 1865. CHESS COLUMN OF THE PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN. FRIDAY, April 21,1865. All communications for this column must be directed “Chess Editor of Evening Bulletin,” and should .reach the office, at latest, on Thursday morning. All Problems must be accompanied by the solution and name of the composer. Philadelphia Chess Club—Northeast corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut streets, second floor. Rooms open daily. CHESS GOSSIP. A very pleasaht, chatty letter, recently received from an esteemed correspondent, contains so many interest- ing points, that we publish it almost entire, and com- mend its various subjects to the several parties more immediately concerned: " You will recollect that last October yon called at- tCLtien to the * Queen’s Problem,’ and mentioned that yon had discovered ninety-two methods of fulfilling the stipulation. I have been able to fix upon no rules which would seem to govern it, but by simply setting wp positions have found ninety-four variations; and can nee no reason why I should even stop at that number. I shall farther examine, and hope to find other varia- tions. *' Did you ever see the ‘ London Letter5 of the Hound liible, of 2d July last, and its statement, that ‘ H. S. tells the writer that “There is nothing that he now so much hates as Chess. He feels nervous at being in the room with a board, and declares the game to be fetal to time; temper, and all good. He says that, were he to write his Chess autobiography, no parent who read it would ever allow his child to learn to play Chess. He says that if he had been the devil he could not have been more maligned, backbitten, hated and wronged, and this simply by the people/he has beaten at Chess. And now, that he has taken refuge with the immortal William, he never sees a Chess-board but be exclaims, ‘ That way madness lies ?’ ” “ This London correspondent was M. D. Conway, whom you, of course, have heard of classically, theo- logically and politically. I strongly that D. ...