CHESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 11

CHESS

WELLINGTON CLTJB. The AVellington Ches3 Club's annual "Petherick"' Tournament was 'advauced a further stage last' week, as follows: —White won from Hill, and also from Book and S. Gyles; Still won .from Tanner, Hill beat M'Carthy, and Tanner beat Dornbuscli. White, who is a keen student of the game, is now,leading with four clear wins to liis credit. He 'has added a "ladder",win to Ilia touraiey successes by capturing rung 12 from Bock., Rung 6 has : also changed hands —Fouhy _ (2 wins) displacing Kellington (1 win). The latter was in poor form, leaving his queen to be taken for' nothing in the second s;ame, and making an equally fatal blunder in the third game by placing a rook where it could be taken for nothing. Bouhy, on . the other hand, played steadily and well/and thorough-, ly deserved his win. Sir. A. W. Gyles. a former member of the club, is now in London, gaining a wider experience in the accountancy profession. He has evidently mado a good impression nt the City of London Chess Club, as, within three weeks of his arrival, he was invited to take part in the Major Tournament which the British Chess Association is running at Chester during the present month, concurrently with its championship tourney. It need.hardly be added that j'oung Gyles, who has threo times come very near. to. winning the New Zealand championship, will have the best wishes of the Now Zealand players if he can manage to accept tho invitation referred to above. WORKING MEN'S CLTJB/ Nine games were played. last week in . this chib's .handicap tourney, as follow: —Burgess ' won from '.Mowtell and Alexander, and .lost to Perry 1 , Key won from'o. Roid.and lost to W. H. Smith. Alexander won from Rutherford,, Featonby from Mowtell, and Coulter from Smith and-Perry._ Featonby is now leading 1 nith 6 wins, no losses, closely followed • by J. Rcid, 7—l, Gray s—Perrys—Perry 4 —2, : Burgess 5—3,, Mowtell 4—3, C. Reid 4—3; and ■Key--'4—4.

The results in tlio sealed handicap draughts tourney .were.-.as .follow:— Krickson (2\) v.. Wallace (10, Wallace 2-S) v. Burgess Wallace (2> v Wright (2), C. Rokl (20 v. Wallace (15), Smith (3) v. Hudson (1), and Wright (2) v. Hudson (2). The best tallies to date are:—EHckson, 32} —SJ J. Reid, 30—10; Burgess, 19J—81; Manson, 18£ —9\; JVallace, 21—19; and Wright, 19J —16J. WELLINGTON SOUTH CLUB i Section play in the Wellington South Chess Olnb's annual handicap tournament was-resumed on Friday, the results of the sixth round '.being as follow:—Perrott'won from Allen, Rland from Murray, Douglas from Booth, Purchaa from Weltoh, Berry, from Laughton, 1 and Woino from Thompson. The games Armstrong v. Loney and Clark v. Harper • were postponed. _Purclias is leading in Section A with 6 wins and no losses, the next best tallies being Allen B—l, Douglas . 4 —2, and Perrott 4 —2, In Section B Berry is leading witli 4 wins, no losses, closely followed 'b.v Laughton 3—l, Loney \i—i, and Weine 2J—ls.. The last round or the section play is scheduled for next Friday evening, but as thero are several outstanding games to he disposed of, it will. probably be late in tlio month before the final six (i.e., the three highest scorers in each section) can commence to play 1 off for the three prizes that ■ have been allotted to this interesting contest, NGAIO CLUB. : The best scores to date in the Ngaio Chess Club's handicap tourney are as follow:—Topp, 10 wins, ,»o losses; E. E. Hicks, 6—l; Green, (35 —4J; Croxton, Si —2£; W. J. Hicks, 5—6; and E. Hicks, 3—3. As, Mr. Nichols has had to withdraw from the contest, Mr. Topp has only one more game to play, and his chances' of securing pride of place look very good. CANTERBURY V. OAMARU. i c'c- • The position of tlio 12-aside telegraphic match bet-wen the above clubs is that Oamani won 3 games, Canterbury 1; two games wcr<? drawn, and no fewer than 6 unfinished. Games have been sent to tlio N.Z. Chess Association to be adjudicated on by the Wellington, members of the N.Z. Ad-, judication Board. Tlio largo percentage of unfinished games is a most unsatisfactory feature, and is admittedly due to'the short-sightedness of the two clubs in agreeing to play without clocks. .Our southern contemporaries aareo that when the adjudications are concluded, the final result should be a very close one.