Simultaneous Chess
Chess-playing members of the Christchurch public will be able to pit their skill against an international master at the Te Kura Lounge tomorrow night. The Philippines master, Rodolfo C. Tan Cardoso, who is playing in the Canterbury Chess Club’s centennial tournament, will give a demonstration of simultaneous chess.
If there is a big enough attendance, the Russian international grand master, Yuri L. Averbakh, and the New Zealand champion, O. Sarapu, may also give simultaneous demonstrations.
Cardoso may also play blindfold, possibly over two or three boards simultaneously. A knock-out tournament of lightning, or “five-minute chess,” will be played tonight by competitors in the centennial tournament. Every player will have two “lives,” and play will begin at 10.30 p.m., finishing in time for New Year celebrations. Mr A. S. Hollander, the president of the Canterbury Chess Club, said that this tournament should provide very fast and very exciting chess, even if the quality of play was not very high. Lightning chess demonstrated the falsity of the belief that chess was a monotonous, serious, and protracted game, he said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 12
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