TELEGRAPHIC CHESS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 252, 21 July 1936, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC CHESS

Club Championship of Dominion The .Canterbury and Wellington Chess Clubs which have qualified to take part in the inter-island final of this year's 20-a--side telegraphic matches for the club championship of New Zealand commenced their fixture promptly at 6.30 p.m. ou Saturday. The operating was once more in the experienced hands of Masses. XV. Kennedy (Wellington) and C. T. MeAloon (Christchurch). Mr. E. A. Hadler umpired for the Wellington club in Christchurch, while Mr. W. J. Emery looked after the Canterbury club’s interests at the Wellington end. A gratifying feature of the match 'was an entire absence ot clerical errors, this being due to the accurate work of .the local tellers, Messrs. Emery, Gallichan, Morpeth and XV. Dallas, and those who were performing similar service in Christchurch. Mr. Darwin won the toss from Mr. McCrea (the Wellington captain), and the Canterbury club thus had first move at the odd-numbered boards. The Wellington team is weakened by the inability of Messrs. Mason, G. P. Andenson, T. Fouhy, Didsbury, A. J. Thompson and McColl to take part in this, the most important match, of the club’s diamond jubilee year. The pairing and the openings used are as follows: —

It will be seen that New Zealand's two champions are taking part in this contest, Mr. Gyles being at board 1, while Mrs. Abbott, the Dominion’s pioneer lady champion, is waging a tough fight with Mr. J. C. McGrea (the hon. secretary of the New Zealand Chess Association) at board 9. None of the 20 games was completed on Saturday evening, but the play was markedly in favour of the southern club, which has won the exchange at two boards, and is a pawn up at two other boards. The remaining 115 games>were in a very even state when the adjournment was taken at .11 p.m. Some very interesting and instructive end-game play should be witnessed when play is concluded next Saturday evening. Correspondence Chess. Chess players have an opportunity of improving their play by taking part in the correspondence match North Island v. South Island, which is being organised by the New Zealand unit of the British Correspondence Chess Association. The match ds open to all chess players, and it will be necessary for each entrant to state his club grade, or give other evidence of his playing strength. Entries, with an entrance fee of 1/-, should reach the hon. secretary. Mr. A. O. Gray, S Antigua Street, Christchurch, not later tbau July 31. A forty-boards correspondence'match which was recently played between New South Wales and Victoria, ended in a tie (40-40, each side scoring 36 wins and 8 draws). In this contest C. J. S. Purdy, the present Australian champion, won both his games with G. R. Lamparter, a former Bavarian champion who has settled iu Melbourne. “How Euwo Won.” This is the title of an excellent book by Mr. C. J. >S. Purdy, of Lurline Street, Maroubra, New- South Wales, on the recent contest for the world’s championship title. It contains all the 30 games of the Euwe-Alekhino match, splendidly annotated, as the author has had the assistance of several publications containing the analysis of some of the world’s leading masters of the present time. Other attractive contents are an instructive review of the openings adopted, the story of the match, the views of both contestants, biographical notes, photographs, and a brief history of the world’s championship (1570 to date). The list of contents is on a more ambitious scale than that of similar match-books. As the price (2/6, post free) is a record for cheapness, this valuable book should have a. very wide circulation.

Bd. Wellington. Canterbury, , Opening. 1 Gyles Armstrong English 2 Severn© Abbott. Sicilian 3 Dyer Hindin French 4 Morton Darwin QP. 5 Craven Kennedy Sicilian 6 Kellixig Hunter French 7 Godtschalk Frlberg Q.P. S Fairburn Dalton Q.G. dec. 0 McCrea Abbott, Mrs. English 10 White Joyce French 11 Vincent Dovell-Smith French 12 Hardy Mitchell Buy Lopez 13 Wild Khourl Bishop’s 14 Sim White Scotch 15 Jessup Hawkins Buy 1G Otto Grant QP. 17 Welding Hey Sicilian 18 Taylor Couch Q.G. dec. 10 Glass Hollander •Sicilian 20 Grady Hagar Q.P.