AUCKLAND CHESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 14

AUCKLAND CHESS.

• / ' CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY. ' HOW THE PLAYERS STAND. Thp ''Auckland f'hess Club's championship tourney is hairing completion. Points have been scored as follows: — Points. .Tones 10J Maddox ..; JiJ Addis . ... . . BJ' ' Sullivan . i Sale 7 ' . Miller 0 • l'lek'eft 51." Wliigfielil -Si- Koberts 4J. Beltron .4J, Lees 85. Smith 3J, Adams 3, Bailey' 3, Jeffreys. 2J.- . . It is. difficult to .predict the result as the four leading players engage in a final round, the aggregates to their credit in the first round being added to their scores in" the final games.' Although Jones is leading with 10% points, lie has played thirteen of his fourteen games. If he wins his last gn'nie "(with Maddox) his. total will be 11% points. -Maddox has two games ;to play (with Belton and .Tones), and one win will give him equality with .Tones. Sullivan is 8% to the good. lie has to play Jeffreys and Pickett. He can get a possible 10% points. Addis has so far only lost one gam's, but he has drawn five. He has an aggregate of 8% points, with two games to be played (against Lees arid Adams), and it is possible for him to finish with 10% points. Sale, with 7 points, has to meet Pickett and Bailey, and can score a possible 9 points. The four finalists should'come from .Tones, Maddox, Sullivan, Addis. Sale and Pickett. Jn the intermediate level the scores to date are: —Gale 0 points. Drott 8%, I Baeyevt? 7. .Thompson 6%. Browne 3%, : Ilos'rillv 3. Edwards 3, Pndney 1 1 i. I Minn- level.—.Tonos, 12 points (winner)" TT-'tir'ny. Turner. Lavsnn. each".4; Aylett, Stubbs, Linguard, each 3.