CHESS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27150, 21 September 1953, Page 7

CHESS

TELEGRAPHIC MATCH PLAYED The Canterbury Chess Club's first Bledisloe Cup match this year, against the Auckland Club, was held on Saturday. The cup is competed for annually by five of the Dominion’s leading clubs. Of the eight finished games, Canterbury has won three, drawn one, and lost four (one by default). The remaining 12 games are subject to negotiations between the two team captains, who, failing agreement, refer any games still in dispute to an outside club. The Canterbury players hold strong positions in the unfinished games on boards 18 and 20. The game between the No. 1 players in each team—O. Sarapu (Auckland), the present New Zealand champion, and W. E. Moore—is unfinished, but Sarapu appears to hold the advantage. Of the other nine games, each team should get a fair share, and the result of the match will be close. Bledisloe Cup matches between clubs in different centres are played by telegraph. Mr C. D. Newton, who has operated the Morse key in the Canterbury Chess Club’s rooms for the club’s telegraphic matches for many years, again served as the Christchurch operator. In the results below, Canterbury names are given first (unfinished games being designated “U.”:—W. E. Moore and O. Sarapu, U.; L. J. Darwin 1, A. E. Turner 0; L. T. Moorhouse v. M. Velikice. U.; R. M. Broadbent v. D. Wagstaff, U.; E. J. Denys v. A. R. Fletcher, U.; J. H. Woolley J, S. A. Foulds 1: R. LovellSmith v. R. G. Baeyerty, U.; E. Dalton 0, G. E. Trundle 1; R. J. Colthart v. P. Bollee, U.: H. J. King v. B. H. Marsich, U.; Mrs C. L. Short (Auckland) won by default; I. T. Kay v. G. Mills-Palmer, U.; R. Coates 0. R. E. Cuthbert 1; Miss A. Wellard-King 0, N. Cruden 1: A. C. Chandler 1, A. Rogers 0; R. S. Abbott v. Mrs J. R. Sayers, U.; E. J. HarrisonWilkie 1. J. Hurley 0; G. T. Parkins v. B. Griffiths, U.; Mrs I. Craddock v. R. N. Craig, U.; J. N.. Preston v. F. W. Kearns, U.