CANTERBURY CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 2

CANTERBURY CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

[Contributed by W. E. MOORE] In the senior championship, Darwin is leading with 4£ points, followed by Moore (4), Woolley (3|), Colthart (3). and Moorhouse (3). In the intermediate, S. Hollander leads with 7 points; Fnberg has 6s, White 5. and Golding 5. In the junior, Hayes, Bracken, and Hagar each have 4 points. Senior—Moorhouse beat Woolley, Darwin drew with Dalton and beat D. C. Manson. In the latter game. Darwin seemed to have an easy win with two strong passed pawns, but drifted into a lost position, and was only saved by two grisly blunders of Manson's. Intermediate—Golding beat D. Manson, Hollander beat Denys, Friberg beat White, White beat Miss WellardKing. Junior—Bracken beat Hayes, Hayes beat Easterbrook. GAME NO. 5 E. Dalton white, W. E. Moore black; queen’s gambit, Cambridge Springs defence. Moore won by speculating on a bishop sacrifice, which startled Dalton into losing a piece. 1 P-Q4, P-Q4. 2 P-QB4, P-K3. 3 N-QB3, N-KB3. 48-N5, N-Q2. 5 P-K3, P-83. (Of course not 5 PxP, PxP, 6 NxP, NxN, 7 BxQ, B-N5.) 6 N-KB3, Q-R4, 7 PxP, KPxP (7 . . . NxP? leaves the queen’s bishop shut in and the attack is ‘ illusory.) 8 B-Q3, N-K5. 9 Q-B2 (9BxN loses a piece.) . . . Nxß. 10 NxN, P-KR3. 11 N-83, N-83. 12 0-0, B-Q3. 13 P-KR3, 0-0. 14 P-QR 3, B-K3. 15 KR-Kl, l6 P-K4, PxP. 17 NxP, NxN. • 18 BxN, QR-Ql. (Now black has two possible objectives—the king’s rook’s pawn and the isolated queen’s pawn.) 19 P-QN4, Q-Bl (White is threatening a break-up by P-N5). 20 B-Q3, B-K2. 21 QR-81, B-83. 22 KR-Ql, R-Q4. (Obviously not 22 . . . BxQP? Now if 23 B-K4 or B-84. R-KR4). 23 Q-Nl, BxRP. 24 Pxß, QxP. 25 B-K4, RK-KR4. > 26 N-R2? (A blunder, but if 26 N-Kl, R-Kl. 27 B-N2, R-N.4. 28 K-Bl—-otherwise mate in two—RxN, 29 KxR, Rxß, and black has- two pawns and a strong attack for the exchange.) . . .

QxNch. 27 K-81, R-Kl. 28 R-83, R-KN 4. 29 R-K8.3, R-NBch. 30 K-K2, RxR. 31 KxR, Q-NBch. 32 K-Q2, QxQ. (White cannot avoid the exchanges without losing his bishop.) 33 BxQ, BxP. 34 B-R2, B-83. 35 B-84, K-81. 36 R-B4?? B-N4. 37 Resigns. White has lost, but his thirtysixth move shortened the game. -