CHESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 12

CHESS.

dominion: championship.

NINE ROUNDS PLAYER (By Telegraph.—Press Association*)'; ROTORUA, Friday. Games played in the ninth round of the New Zealand Chess Championship resulted: — Greenfield v. Erskine. —A Sicilian game in which queens were changed early. Erskine castled on the queen side and advanced his king side pawns. Greenfield also castled on the queen i>ide to a position exposed to a bishop attack. Erskine threatened to win a knight, but was able to. win knight, pawn and bishop, whereupon Greenfield' resigned. Fairburn v. Miller.—This was a queen's pawn game. In the opening exchanges Fairburn won two - pawns and obtained command of an open bishop file. Attacking through this with queen and rooks he dominated the position, forcing the exchange of rooks, and winning a third pawn. Miller checked with his queen 'on the eighth rank, wasting his queen's strength to pin a bishop, Fairburn won the end game. Kelling v. Herbert.—Herbert played an irregular defence, which soon gave Kelling a dominating position. Strengthening the attack, Kelling caused Herbert to draw upon every Breaking,--through' on the queen side, Kelling suddenly struck ,at the centre, checking with his queen, winning a bishop and threatening to win his opponent's queen for a rook. Herbert resigned. ■' The games between Grierson and Pleasants, Kummer and Gyles and Maddox and Severne were not finished.