CHESS TOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 154, 27 December 1935, Page 3

CHESS TOURNEY

FIRST ROUND RESULTS

SOME INTERESTING^ GAMES

) The first round of the New Zealand I chess championship tournament was played last night, pnd games in the new minor tournament and the ladies' tournament were also- played There tntnr? very good attendance of speciWri h tl1? "la'?agement cordially invites those interested to watch the games in progress. : Ule P^nVSsatS«Sa». la^ hnilM" eS' hl U} c&™t round played and fmfi l proved most .interesting and four hours were allotted for play toe clo Use goa fmth S WW? StUl »«S me ciose_of the session < • : . • Dyer v. KeUing.—This was a- Qiieen !«£»„ « J well ln^ the middle game, when the minor exchanges "gave both P'aK very open.-mobile 'porittoni £ii r? oftere«l.-to.change off queens fPt DyeiT ac^Pted. From this KelI riJhf ? P V- and *-Dyer '"looking lor a right-continuation on the thirtvnjnth move lost on time ' ' Ulu^ y . of t<i 1 O pttJ,-, n Gyl?>S-"^Tl'is was-> variation of the Queen Pawn game, Scott establishing bishop on king's knight second Scott seemed to get-quite algdod posibut Gyles threatened to win a pawn Scott to resign at move thiuty-one ~ Bey?r.,.v- Erskine.-Erskine. adopted the Sicilian defence, and got a very cramped position, several moves having to be spent m freeing his bishops: After the opening Erskine "worked up a strong attack along the, rook's open file, but Beyer sacrificed a rook for a il lg. te, .obtain a strong bounteri attack. This he was able to push home successfully, and, at move 55, Erskine resigned. ' , ■; Rutherford v. Baeyertz.—Rutherford played the Queen's Pawn Game against Baeyertz; who adopted the Franchetto defence with his queens and bishops.' uy^ ry 3, ntf res,ting middle game': resulted and attack and counter followed quickly Baeyertz with open rook file launched an attack with Queen; rook, and bishop, forcing the exchanges to win a pawn. A drawn position was the result, the players retaining bishops °J opposite colour. Baeyertz was unable to make use-of his:extra pawn. ■ MINOR TOURNAMENT. ■ In the minor tournament, Brown beat Anderson rather easily, the latter losing his queen for knight, after which Brown soon forced Anderson to resign. Fairburn accounted for Stewart in a Queens Pawn game. Stewart seemed to get the better development and soon launched; a strong attack. However he prematurely-gave up bishop for pawn, and Fairburn, making satisfactory defence, was able to force an exchange of pieces, and in the end game won by his superior forces. ■ ..■--.; J■ ■ In another Queen's Bishop Gambit. Hutchings and H. Christensen played a very even game right! up to the ending, when Christensen was able to improve his position. Hutchings. being unable to recover, the lost ground, soon resigned a hopeless game. ■■■■" Langley played quite a good game against Kirkwood, ■ and when the end game was reached had,a two-pawn advantage, with bishop support against his opponent's knight. A .weak move by Langley left king and bishop to be forked by knight, and with the loss of the piece Langley lost the game. ! LADIES' TOURNEY. I Two interesting games were played n the ladies' tourney, Mrs.' Abbott beating Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. Short beating Mrs. Goldsmith. Mrs. Abbott's exhibition was highly, «;editaßle, her winning combination being very fine. Mrs. Thorpe played quite good chess; but was unable to meet all: the wiles of her opponent. , ;. •, : -, ~; ; The other ladies': game;, was ' very stubbornly contested, and only the wearing tactics of Mrs. Short enabled her to force Mrs. Goldsmith's resigiiaAt the opening ceremony yesterday afternoon the management committee expressed their indebtedness to the manager of the Gas Company, Mr. Keit nedy, for the fine room' facilities he had made .available for the holding of the tpurnamfent. The, second round' will be commenced at 1.15 this afternoon, and the third round at 6.45 o'clock tonight. ■ --■ ■ :-. -- ■ -'. -■ ■ .-■■-