CHESS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 4

CHESS

THE WELLINGTON SOUTH CLUB,

The annual championship tournament of the above club commences on Thursday evening. The eight competitors are Messrs. G. P. Anderson (present champion), Purchas (ex-champion), Welton, Harper, A. Clark, W. Armstrong (president), H. J. Thompson, and W. Berry. If the competitors have kept in touch with the game during the summer months arid their play is as consistent as on previous occasions thie contest to decide the club's 1918 championship should provide a very close finish. PROBLEM-SOLVING. CONTEST. A dozen players, drawn from the three local clubs, have entered for the problemsolving contest to be held next Saturday evening at the V.M.C.A. rooms, under the auspices of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club of: America. Each competitor will be supplied with a sheet on which twelve .tvyc-move- problems are printed, and will "be allowed 2f hours for solving the problems; He may solve from the diagram, or may use chess material. There are fiye# "book" prizes. Mr. C. W. Tanner^ president of the Wellington Club, has consented to' act as supervisor. It is nearly 20 years since a problemsolving contest was held in this city, and consequently, a good deal' of interest is. being taken by local enthusiasts in the coming fixture—which should have the effect of bringing them in touch with whax is often termed-the poetic side of chess. It may be added that the membership of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club on Ist December last was as follows : — United States 195, South America. 7, Spain 1, Russia 3, Norway 4, Holland 7, Italy 12, Great Britain '34, France 3, Canada 3; China 1, Australia 8, and New Zealand 11. The club holds its annual solving contest simultaneously in as many centres as possible in both hemispheres— consequently the present week-end will see thousands of cliessists solving the very same twelve problems tliat our local competitors will be asked to tackle.