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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10012, 16 April 1898, Page 3

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Weekly Press and Pvefere*." The Canterbury Chess Club meets in the Chamber of Commerce, A.M.P. Building?, every Tuesday and Friday from 7 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Visitors are always welcome. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J.H.L., Havelock.— Duals are where mart than one variation on the second or subsequent move will bring about a mate. A pure mate is just the contrary. Box*r, Nelson.—We have sent you the slip by post. Many thanks. Problkm No. 585.—Correct solution also received from J. Mason, Opawa. Problem No. 586.—Correct solutions received from J.H.L., Havelock, J.H.8., Sibyl and Gambit. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 586. WHITE. BLACK. 1 PBS PROBLEM NO. 588. By H. Le Jeune. BLACK.

WHITJE. White to play and mate in two moves. Position of Pieces.—White—X on Q R 4, Q on Q R sq, Xt on X Xt 3, and Q Xt 7, P on KKt5, Q2, and Q6. Black—X on Q 4, PonQ 82. Mate in two. LINWOOD CHESS AND DRAUGHTS CLUB. The annual general meeting of the Linwood Chess and Draughts Ciub will be held in the club room, Rolleston street, to-morrow evening, Thursday, April 14th. Intending members are invited to be present. JANOWSKY v WALBRODT. Another game in this match :— Ruy Lopez. WHITE. BLACK. (D. Janowsky.) (C. A. Walbrodt.) IPK4 IPK4 2KtKB3 2KtQB3 3 B Xt 5 3 Xt B 3 4 Castles 4 Xt x P 5 R X *q (a) 5 Xt Q 3 6 Xt x P 6 Xt x K» 7 R x Xt, oh 7 B X 2 8 B Q 3 (b) 8 Castles 9KtB3 9883 10 R X 3 10 R X eg 11 P Q Xt 3 (o) 11 R x R 12BPxR 12BxKfc 13 Pxß 13 PQ»3 14QKt4{d) 14QK2 15 B Q 2 15 B Xt 2 16 R X Beg 16 R X eg 17 P B 4 17 Xt X 5 18 BQB sq - 18 PQ 3 (c) 19 B Xt 2 19 Q Xt 4 (f) 20 Q B 4 20 Q x Q 21 R x Q (c) 21 P X B 3 22 X B sq 22 X B 2 23 KK2 23 PKR3 24 P X Xt 4 24RK2 25 P X R 4 25 R X sq 26PKt4 26 P Q B 4 27 P Q Xt 5 27 B R sq 28 P R 4 28 B Xt 2 29 KKsq 29 KKtsq 30 X Q sq 30 B R sq ?* 31 X B sq 31 B Kfc 2 ' ■ 32 X Q sq 32 B R sq 33 X B sq 33 Xt Xt 6 34 X Q 2 Draw. (a) A drawn variation. (b) With a view of an eventual sacrifice of the B after Black's castling. Steinitz played the same variation against Zukertort in the New York match. In one game he retired B Beg ; but the whole variation is very, tame. (o) Jonowsky played the same variation against Lasker in the Nuremberg Tournament ; but as it leaves White an isolated X P, it should be avoided on that score. (d) 14. B R 3 might be considered here. (c) 18 Q X 3 seems preferable. (f) Having the better pawn position, Black wantg to bring it to an end game. (jj) If 21 P x B, Black would improve his position with 21 P X B 4. There is, however, nothing more in the game; it is a legitimate draw, although Janowsky made , ' a last but vain effort to avoid a draw. Duration four hours.

CITS' OF LONDON CHESS CLUB. The following game was played in the Championship Tournament of the City of London Chess Club ; — Queen's Pawn Opening. WHIT*. BT.ACK. (T. F. Lawrence.) (H. W. Trenchard.) IPQ4 IPQ4 2PK3 2 P X 3 3 BQ3 3 BQ3 4 Xt Q 2 (a) 4 P X B 4 (bj SPKB4(c) 5 Xt Q 2 6KKtB3 6KtR3 7 Xt Xt 5 (d) 7 Xt B 3 8 Q Xt B 3 (c) 8 Castles 9 Castles 9 Xt X 5 10BxKt(f) 10 B P x B 11 Xt X 5 11 P B 4 12 Q R 5 12 Q X eg 13 Q R 3 13 B x Xt 14 Q P x B (g) 14 Q Xt 3 15 B Q 2 (h) 15 Xt B 2 16 Kt. x Xt 16 R x Xt 17 B B 3 (i) 17 P X R 4 18 Q R Q sq 18 B Q 2 19 R B 2 19 Q Xt 5 20 QxQ 20 PxQ 21 P X Xt 3 21 P X Xt 3 22PKH3(i) 22 P x P 23RR2 23RR2 24 X B 2 24 P X Xt 4 (k) 25PKKt4 25PxP

26 PxP 26 PQS 27 B X sn 27 P X 6, eh 28 X Xt 3 28 B B 3 29 R x R P 29 R x R eh 30 X x R 30 B B 6 31 R B sq 31 V B 5 32 X Xt 3 32 15 X 7 33882{1) 33 P x B 34KxP 34 PQ6 35PxP 35 X x Q P 36P85 36 R X £ sq 37 P B 6 37 R Q sq 38KKt3 38RQ5 39 R X sq 39 R Iv 5 40 R x R 40 B x R 41 X B 4 41 B Xt 8 42 P R 3 42 B B 7 43KK3 438Q8 44 P Xt 5 44 X H 2 45 X Q 4 45 P Xt 3 (m> 46 X x P 46 B R 5 47 X Xt 4 47 B X sq 48 X B 4 48 X Xt 3 49 F Xt 4 49 P R 3 50 X Q 4 50 X x P 51 (' It 4 51 X B 4 52 I , R 5 52 I'xP 53 !' xP . 53 BR4 54K85 [A X x P 55 X Xt 6 55 X x P Resigns. <a) An opportunity missed to advance \ P X 4. (b) Presumably to prevent P R 4. But ! Slack advancing P X 4 himself might be !onsidered. (c) It is better not to advance the X B P ■jo long as there is a possibility of Black establishing one of his knights at X 5. He might have continued in the usual way with Xt X B 3, followed by P Q B 4. (d) There is no point in this advance, and it might therefore be dispensed with in favour of a developing move, or Xt X 5 at once. (c) 8 P B 4 would be-advisable here. <f) He might have Sept the bishop at present and advanced P B 4 still. (g) If 14 B P x P, then 14 R x R eh ; 15 X x R, Q B sq eh ; 16 X Xt sq, Q B 4, &c. (h) The exchange of Knights is forced now, and the Bishops of different colour foreshadow a draw. As pointed out in note (d) the advance of the X Xt served no good purpose at all. Of course, he could still play 15 Q R 4, Xt B 4 ; 16 Q B 2 or X sq, PR3; 17 Xt R 3, but Black would gain position thereby. (i) A somewhat bold course would have been 17 P X Xt 4, with a view of X R sq, and RK Xt sq. This was the only chance of trying to win. The text-move is not good. Position after Black's 20th move. BLACK.

WHITE. (j) The game oat to be legitimately a draw now. White, however, does not conduct the ending correctly. He should prevent Black's breaking through in the centre, and, therefore, withdraw B X sq, or P Q Xt 3, followed by BKt 2. The bishop is in a bad position, and this, in conjunction with the text-move, is the cause of White getting the worst of it. (k) Well played. He threatens P£ts or to break up White's pawns. To prevent the former White has to move P X Xt 4, which gives Black a winning pawn position in the centre. 1 (1) He might as well resign. The game cannot be saved. (m) To keep the king out. MrTrenchard leaves nothing te chance. ' - NOTES. The players in the cable match between England and America, and which we have learned by telegraph resulted in a victory for .the British side were :—England— Atkins, Bellingham, Blackburn, Burn, Caro, Jackson, Jacobs, Locock, Mills and Trenchard (all from the first part of the alphabet, and none of the Smiths, Smyths, or Smylhes); America — Barry, Delmar, Hodges, Hymes, Pillsbury, and Showalter, with four others whose names have not transpired. In America they still make use of the aspirate. The Canadian Chess Association has just organised a tourney among all its members. The competitors will be divided into groups of seven players ; the winner in each group will receive a prize, and thus compete with the winners in the other groups for a higher prize. This is something which is worthy of consideration by the New Zealand Chess Association. Correspondence chess is a most valuable means of chess education. ' With regard to the proposed match between Janowski and Charousek, the following correspondence has passed :■>— "M. Janowski,—l have just learned in many newspapers that you have challenged mc to a match. 1 have received nothing,— Charousek." " M. Charonsek, —Since you hold strictly to having my challenge in writing I give it by this letter. lam ready to play a match with you when you will for a minimum stake of 1500 marks. If you accept, I beg that you will lei mc know as soon as possible. Awaiting your reply, I remain, &c.,—D. Janowski." A Change of Front.—The indignation occasionally aroused in the breast of a correspondence player by an enforcement ol rules is amusingly illustrated by the following extracts from two letters that we remember passing in the course of acorespondence game. The first was written soon after the beginning of the game. " Dear Sir, —I was very pleased to receive your nice letter of yesterday, and I am quite with you in hoping fora well-played fight. Many thanks for your invitation to drop into your club " —so far all is suavity and politeness. Now mark the second letter, written by the same individual, a few weeks later, when his opponent has enforced a penalty for an illegal move:—" Sir, —I was under the impression that I had to deal with a chess player, and not a mere timber shifter and quibbler. Any schoolboy with a grain of sense would have known what T meant by my move ; any beginner at chess would see at once," &c. What a falling off was there.— Montreal Witness.

JUST THE OTHXR WAY. The man who had built up the new town and was showing a prospective settler about the place, pointed with pride to a pretty little church, just completed. "Do you belong to the church V asked the visitor. " I should say not," replied the head man of the burg, with an air of injured pride, " the church belongs to mc."