CHESS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9763, 26 June 1897, Page 3

CHESS.

"Weekly Press and Referee." The Canterbury Chess Club meet* in the Chamber of Commerce, A.M.P. Buildings, every Tuesday and Friday from 7 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Visitors are alway welcomed.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. G.BL—Your budget very welcome. Many thanks. Chess Editors "Otago' Witness," "Eveninc Star" and " Weekly News."—Slips received with thanks. Solvxh—We have examined it. You must have overlooked the check on Black's second move. Pkob-sm No. 544.—Correct solution also received from J.H.L., Havelock. Problem No. &'ts.—Correct solutions have been received from Sibyl, J. H.B, and Jonah. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 515. ~-rrn_ black. 1 QQsq IPiP 2 Xt Q 6 2 X moves 3 Xt or P mates. <a) 1 ..... ■ 1 PB6 2 Q Q 7, eh 2 X move 3 3 Q or P mates. 1 . . . . 1 Xt B 2 2 Q Xt 4, eh 2 X move« 3 Xt B 5 matei. 1. . . . IKtKU 2 Xt Q 6, eh 2 X moves 3 PB4 mates. PROBLEM No. 547. By E. Y. Tanner. BLACK.

G.H.—Your budget very welcome. Many thanks. Chbss Editors " Otago Witness," " Evening Star" and " Weekly News."—Slips received with thanks. Solvjss We have examined it. You must have overlooked the check on Black's second move. Problem Ho. 544.—Correct solution also received from J.H.U, Haveloctt. Problem No. frtS.—Correct solutions have been received from Sibyl, J.H.B. and Jonah.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 515.

WHIT*. BLACK. 1 QQsq 1 PsP 2 Xt Q 6 2 X moves 3 Xt or P mates. 1 .... IPB6 2 Q Q 7, eh 2 X move 3 3 Q or P mates. 1 .... 1 Xt B 2 2 Q Xt 4, eh 2 X moves 3 Xt B 5 niatej. 1. ... ° 1 KtK*6 2 Xt Q 6, eh 2 X moves SPB4 mates.

J PROBLEM No. 547.

By E. V. Tanner. BLACK.

WHITE. White to play and mate in three moves. Position of Pieces.—White—X on X 8, R on X B 7, and Q5,80nK3,P on XR 5, and KB 4. Black—X on KR3,Pon XXt 3 and Q5. Mate in three.

OXFORD V. CAMBRIDGE.

The annual fixture between the Oxford and Cambridge Universities took place about the beginning of April, at the British Chess Club. After a close encounter Oxford gained the victory by four games to three. Of the total number of matches played, Cambridge has won fifteen and Oxford nine. The following game was played at Board 1 in the present match :— Petroff. WHIT-. BLACK Mr Spencer Churchill Mr E. A. Crowley (Oxford). (Cambridge). IPK4 IPK4 2 Xt X B 3 ii Xt X B 3 3 Ktx P 3 PQ3 4 Xt X B 3 4 Xt x P SPQ4 SPQ4 68Q3 6 Xt Q B 3 7PB3(a) 7BKKtS BPKR3 8 BR 4 9 B X 3 98Q3 10 Q Xt Q 2 10 P B 4 HKtKt3 UQK2(b) 12QK2 12P85. 13 RQ2 13 B.\Kt(c) 14PxB 14KtxB 15 Q x Q, eh 15 Xt x Q 16 Xx Xt 16 Castles (Q R) ~ 17QRKsq . 17 Q RRsq 18RK6 18 Xt B 3 19 Rxßch . 19 RxR 20BxP 20PQXt3 21 RKKt sq 21 RK2(d) 22 B Xt 8 22 Xt Q sq 23 BxP 23 PB3 24 BK4 24 X B_ 25 KQ3 25 KtK3 26 KtQ2 26 PQB4 27 PQS 27 Ktßsq--28 Ktß4 • 28 P<jKt4 29 Ktxß 29 KxKt 30PKt3 30KtQ2 31 R Xt 6 eh 31 X B 2 32 PQ6ch Resigns, (a) A very tame continuation. Castles or PQ B 4 would be more energetic. , (b) Here castles was ,far better, and Would have given Black a splendid game. , (c) Premature. Again castling was the move. (d) Losing another pawn, and the game.

AUCKLAND CHESS CLUB.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Chess Club, held last month, the following officers were elected":—President, Mr J. M. Lennox; vice-president, Mr Cozens; hon. secretary, Mr Lelievre ; committee, Messrs Tait, Grierson, Dennis, Hosking, White, Jowitt, Young, Sharland, Harrison, and Smith.

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP.

Contrary to expectation Jackson Showalter made a gallant stand against Pillsbury in the above contest. It was generally thought that after the poor show Showalter made at the late international congress that Pillsbury would have no difficulty in disposing of his antagonist. Instead of gaining the anticipated speedy victory he has had a tough struggle to hold his own. At the end of the nineteenth game the score stood eight all and three draws. Pillsbury won the next two games and with it a stake of £400 and the title of Champion of the United States. Mr Showalter's friends are anxious for another contest, and are confident that there will be a different termination.

NOTES.

Lately at Hastings, Lasker' performed a remarkable feat. He played thirty-nine games won the lot in four and a half hours. Among his victims were J. H. Blake, W. W. Wilson and other strong players. The Daily News says that in Steinitz's recent simultaneous exhibition at Vienna, the twenty-two boards were set on a horse-shoe-shaped table, round the inside of which ! Steinitz walked, always leaning heavily on his stick. Occasionally, one or other of the positions interested him so much that he asked for a chair, sat down, and seemed oblivious, for a time, of the rest of the games. Such periods of oblivion, however, were brief ; and he was soon on his round again. Suppose that you are nearing the end of a game in which yon have never been able to feel yourself on anything like even terms with your adversary. If you can listen to the stifled sigh with which he intimates that his patience is taxed to the utmost in waiting for your acknowledgment of defeat, and you still find your heart overflowing with brotherly love for him, then you deserve to have lived upon a better earth. The position is aggravated by the fact that under no circumstances must you give way to irritation. If you wish to turn the chess board into an earthquake, you must find some plausible cause other than your pending defeat. A man with a dead-lost' game has been known"to get up a political argument" in order to furnish himself with a reasonable excuse for losing his temper and upsetting the board. Yo* see a man may forgivably, and even justifiably in the eyes of his supporters, show a little effervescence on a question of politics, but he is outside the pale if he gets angry over chess.— " Badminton Magazine."