CHESS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 12

CHESS.

CANTERBURY V. WELLINGTON. When the Canterbury-Wollington telegraphic chess match was contested in November last, three games were marked incomplete. These were referred to the Auckland members of the New Zealand Adjudication Board, whose report has now come to h&nd._ Wins ore awarded to Canterbury at boards 6 and 14, and to Wellington at board 16. The final score of the match is ' therefore: Wellington 11 wins, Canterbury 9 wins. Tie Wellington Club can thus look back on a very successful record in last year's contests, having drawn the matches against Auckland and Otago, and won from Canterbury and Nelson. The Auckland Chess Club won the club championship of New Zealand, for which only the scores made at the twelve highest boards are taken into account. The scores in the recent match with. Canterbury are as follows: Bd. Wellington. Canterbury. . .!• Barnes, 11. .._0 Anderson, i±. .. 1 2 Hicks, E. A. J Kennedy, H. .. i 3 Mason, W. .. 1 Friberg, Rev. .. 0 4 Gvies,.A. W... i King, W. S. ..0 8 Mackay, W. .. 0 Armstrong, H. .. J *"6".n.cuing, V. .. 0 Hawkins, T. ..1 7 Anderson,. G. 1 Quarrell, H. .. 0 8 Fouhy, T. ..1 Cave, E. W. .. 0 9 Crandie, H. ..' 1 Lovell-Smrth .. 0 30 Lee, H. G. .. 1 Woodford; F. ~ 0 11 Brooker, F. j Joyce, W. H. ;. J 12 Jessup, H. ..0 Stevens, J. E. .. 1 13 Hirter, E. ..0 Neville, F. H. .. 1 14 Taylor, E. S. 0 Chapman, J. .-. I 15 Tanner, W. .. 1 Bennett, H. I. .. 0 16 Fairbum, J... 1 Clark, A. ..0 17 Gyles, A. .. 0 Shillito, R. S. .. 1 18 Lawson, A. .. 0 Dalton, E. ..1 19 Gyles, Mrs .. 4 ShiUito, D. .. | 20 Jessup, A. .. -1 Hart, C. I#. .. 0 . Total .. li Total ' .. 9 Sixteen matches have now been played between these clubs, of' which Wellington has won 9, Canterbury 4, and 3 have ended in a tie, as follows: | 1878—A tie, each' side scoring 6 points. 1883—Wellington won (6—4). . 1884—Wellington won (6J—U§). 1887—Canterbury won (BJ—3i). 1892—A tie, each side scoring 7$ points. • 1894—Wellington-won (BJ—6J). 1913—Wellington won '(6&-S). 1914—Wellington won • 1915—Canterbury won (7—5). 1918&-A tie, each side scoring 6 points. 1917—Canterbury won. (7.—5). i 1918—Canterbury won (7J—6i). 1919—Wellington won (B—6). 1920—Wellington won (11—6). 1921—Wellington won (9-r-7). 1922—Wellington won (11—9).. On summarising the above results it will . be found that 211 games have been contested, of which Wellington. has won 112 j' and Canterbury 98J. The gap of nineteen years from 1894 to 1914 is accounted for by the fact that for nearly two decades chess was at a low ebb in Christchurch, the Red and Blacks having had a long string of-lean years to contend with.