THE CHESS TOURNEY.

Evening Star, Issue 8406, 6 January 1891, Page 4

THE CHESS TOURNEY.

WELLINGTON, January 5. To-day's play at the Chess Congress re suited as follows:

Mr Hookham had the move against Mr Ollivier, and played the Zukertort opening. At the 5.30 adjournment Mr Hookham led by a pawn, Mr Barnes had the move against Mr Brown, the Scotch Gambit being played by the first-named competitor. Mr Barnes won a pawn at move 18, and the exchange rook for bishop at the twenty-seventh move. With this dual advantage Mr Barnes rapidly forced the game, his opponent resigning at move 35. Mr Mouat opened against Mr Edwards, the Danish Gambit being brought forth for the first time in the Congress. At move 19 the local man lost ground in a series of exchanges by first taking with a knight instead of a bishop. M: Mouat, thus having the advantage of rook against knight, bad no difficulty in registering a win. The game only occupied an hour and five minutes. At the evening sitting Hookham defeated Ollivier, as the latter could not stop him queening a pawn; and Littlejohn beat Siedeberg through winning a bishop at move 36. These two games were watched by a large number of spectators, as the result gave the championship to R. J. Barnes, of Wellington, with Beven wins out of nine games. [Barnes, the champion, is an ex-Dunedin man, and waß educated at the old Middle District School.]