CHESS TOURNAMENT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 13

CHESS TOURNAMENT

Wellington Man Wins Special Prize

Two special prizes were offered in connection with the tournament held recently in Christchurch to decide the chess championship of New Zealand. A brilliancy prize of £l/1/- was donated by Mr. L. j. Mitchell (president of the Canterbury Chess Club), and a “best recovery” prize of a like amount was offered by Mr. O. C. Pleasants, of Matiere, who is a North Island vice-president of the New Zealand Chess Association. There were unfortunately no entries for the latter prize, which will be applied in another way at the next meeting of the association. The games entered for the brilliancy prize, were referred, under mottoes, to Mr. H. L. Andersen, Canterbury’s leading expert, who defeated some of the Dominion’s champions at the first Wanganui Congress when he was only 16 years of age. He awarded the prize to the game which bore the motto “an expensive pawn,” remarking that in his opinion it was on a higher plane than the other competing games. The winner was Mr. E. K. Keliing, one of the representatives of the Wellington Working Men’s Club and Literary Institute. He has now won this distinction four times, and has also annexed the best recovery prize on four occasions.