CHESS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 3

CHESS

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

The Dominion's four major clubs are to hc^in their t.'o-a-side telegraphic matches for the club championship of New Zealand at G. 30 p.m. on Saturday next. The North Island contest Is between the Auckland and Wellington Clubs, and the Canterbury and Otago Clubs are striving for supremacy in the South Island. Tho two winning clubs are to play an interisland final on the last two Mondays in July, as the use of the Cook Strait's cable cannot be granted on a Saturday. These contests have for many years past provided close finishes, and it is hoped that this very satisfactory feature will be in evidence in this season's cuntcsts. The Auckland and Wellington Clubs have agreed to dispense -with clocks and to use the ordinary English notation in preference to the numerical system known as the Kieseritzky-ltoll notation. The two teams are being asked to assemble at ti.io p.m., as it is desired to exchange the ilrst moves at ti.3o p.m., experience in past years having shown that a lato start means an unduly large number of unfinished 'games, which have to be "washed up" cither by negotiation or by adjudication. The appointment of an umpire lor the Wellington Club lias been left In the hands of the Auckland Club's executive. Dr. JU. F. Myers is to loolc after the Auckland Club's interests at this end. Two members of the Wellington Club's team, Messrs. \V. E. Mason and J. C. McCrea, aie at present in Auckland, and it is hoped that they will be able to play their respective opponents in the rooms of the Auckland Chess Club. The Auckland Club has won the toss, and will therefore have first move at the odd-number boards. The club championship is at present held by the Otago Chess Club, which last year defeated the Wellington Club in the inter-island linal. THE WELLINGTON LEAGUE. There was a large attendance at the rooms of the Wellington Chess Club on Saturday evening, when 3li players took part in matches held under the auspices of the Wellington Chess League There were also a dozen interested spectators, includiug Mr. H. J. Shanks, the president of the Working Men's Club and Literary Institute, who is rapidly becoming as expert in chess as he is in billiards, in the 'A grade contests the Wellington South Chess Club beat the Hutt Valley Chess Club (5-1), : and the Wellington Club defeated the WorkIng Men's Club by one game (S%-2Vi). The Wellington Club also won the B grade fixture against the Working Men's Club by the narrowest possible margin. The losera were without the services of Messrs. Kirkwood and Halo, while C. It. McColl was missing from the winning side. A cordial welcome was extended to the visitors by Mr. F. K. Helling (president), who expressed pleasure at the splendid progress that the game of chess is making in this city. He mentioned that our two older clubs, which have opposed each other In the friendliest of-chess contests for 45 years past, had each lost a president by death in recent months. The sympathy tendered to the Working Men's Club when its president, Mr. A. D. Plckard, died on Christmas Day, was reciprocated when Mr. W. Mackay, the president of the Wellington Chess Club, died on Palm Sunday. Tha Wellington South Club had also suffered a severe loss during the past year through the death of Its hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr. D. Purchas. which occurred on September I last. After congratulating tho Hutt Valley Chess Club on its well deserved promotion to senior (or A grade) status, Mr. Kelllng concluded by throwing out tho suggestion that as the Wellington Chess League's big opening-of-season fixture Is always held on the Saturday following Easter, It might In future be called "the North v. South Mackay Memorial match," as it comes so closely to the anniversary of Mr. Mackay's death. (Applause.) The B grade fixture, Brooklyn Fire Brigade Chess Club v. the Wellington Club's No.- 2 side, was played at the Gas Company's building on Thursday evening, when the Brooklynites won comfortably, and gave further proof that their team is much stronger than it was a year ago. Tho scores in last week's matches are as follows: — Board. Wellington C.C. W.M. Club. 1 Hicks, K. A. 1 Beyer, X 0 2 Fouhy, T. .. 0 Kelling, F. K. . 1 3 Godtschalk, H. Vi Falrburn, W. J. V 2 4 White, W. C. 0 Andrews, K. ... 1 !i Craven, A. T. 1 Rosenberg, H. M. 0 0 Sim, It. C. .. 1 Ryan, 1' 0 A grade total 3>,i A grsde total 2Vi 7 Ollby, A. 11. 0 Martin, .1. J. . 1 8 Dldsbury, R. 1 Hlrter. E 0 !) Crady, F. .. 1 Gaudy, N 0 10 Stosse, H. .. 0 Williams, Tt. .. 1 11 Myers, Dr. F. V 2 Stephens, D. .. % 12 Lambert, C. 1 Knud3en, M. .. 0 B grade total 3Vs B Brade tot« 2% Wellington South. Hutt Valley. 1 Anderson, G. 1 Wigham, G. .. 0 2 Gyles, A. W. 1 Ottaway. J. H. 0 3 Hardy, J. I>. 1 Fisher, W. A. . 0 4 Thompson. H. 1 Carter, W. It. • 0 5 Ashby, H. E. 0 Blazek, K. V. . 1 fi Clark, G. L. 1 Glesen, G. L. .. 0 Total .... 5 Total .... 1 Brooklyn, F.B.C.C. Wellington No. 2. 1 Goldsmith, A. 1 Emery, W. J. .. 0 2 Kltchingman 1 Ilisberg, C 0 3 Loretz, C. .. 1 Dallas. W. ... 0 4 Boshor, W. . 0 Yarrell, H. P. . .1 5 Goldsmith, Cornish, W. ... 0 Mrs. 1 Stonebanks, K. 0 6 Sullivan, J. 1 Total .... 5 Total .... 1 The next draw for the league's A grade competition is as follows:—Wellington Chess Club v. Ngalo Chess Club; Wellington South Chess Club v. Working Men's Club; nnd Hutt Valley Chess Club, a bye. The Wellington and .Ngalo teams are leading, each having won all its fixtures to date. The village church of Crombie, near Dunfermline, was completely forgotten ■when the union of the Churches took place. The omission vras discovered when the congregation asked for a minister to take the Sunday evening services.