CHESS
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
This year's tourney for the championship of the Wellington Chess Club has been won by Dr. P. Allerhand, with 7 wins and 1 loss. W. Hutchings, founder of the Miramar-Seatoun Chess Club, is the runner-up. H. McNabb will share third place with' E. H. Severne, if he wins his outstanding game against S. Bauer. Dr. Allerhand, who belonged to the Bratislava Chess Club while resident in Czechoslovakia, has won this title two years in succession. In the interval he has won the New Zealand championship besides taking first place in the Wellington Chess League's annual cham-pion-of-champions event. Mr. H. P. Yarrell, who won the club's B grade championship, is leading in the annual handicap tourney for the Petherick Trophy. He also won the first of the club's monthly tourneys. From 1876, when the Wellington Chess Club was founded, till 1909, the club's championship was accounted for by only five players, Messrs. C W. Benbow, A. I. Littlejohn, R. J. Barnes, W. E. Mason, and A. W. O. Davies. Of this quintet, Mr. W. E. Mason, six times champion of New Zealand, is the only survivor. The club did not hold a championship tournament for nine years, but revived the competition in 1918. Since then the title has been won five times by A. W. Gyles, three times by R. J. Barnes, twice each by W. E. Mason, G. P. Anderson, F. K. Kelling, E. A. Hicks, and E. J. Dyer, and Dr. Allerhand, and once each by W. Mackay, A. W. O. Davies, E. H. Severne, and K. Beyer. Of these Messrs. Barnes, Hicks, Mackay, and Davies are now dead.
i Mr. T. Lepviikmann has won the chess of the Wellington Working Men's Club and Literary Institute for the second year in succession. The runner-up, F. K. Kelling, was the club's first chess champion 52 years ago. The third place is taken by I. L. Hardy, who won the major open tourney at the last New Zealand Congress. Mr. Lepviikmann won the club's annual handicap tourney with a score of 8-0. Mr. R. Brown has won the club's B grade championship.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 15
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354CHESS Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 15
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