OVER THE CHESS BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 11700, 4 October 1902, Page 2

OVER THE CHESS BOARD.

. ',' , [CoWnyetjip ni R. M.' BAwp.] \ The Otago Chess Club .meet every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evetUß?, »t 7:50, ip iheir rooms, Lrrsrpool street, [All r communications should "be addressed ," Chess Editor, ' Star' Office." Gmnes, game endings, original problems, and all local in- , formation specially welcomed.] PROBLEM No. 666. (By -■ N. Harrop,: LiretpooL) Black. r ■ '■" -" ■■" ' " ■ ' .

z l:. '•'•; ..... white. : . : . # , Mate in two, ,- I THE MOST ANCIENT CHESS GAMES. We. (Melbourne ' Leader') translate below from the Tuscan chess m&ga&ine '' La Nuova Rivista degli Sccacbi' the following interesting contribution to its pages from the pen of-the distinguished Italian player and analyst. Avo. Carlo Salvioii:r—- - *We,- do not intend to say or give anything upw.. In place of tha usual modern Short 'and' Brilliant Gomes wo have on this occasion collected. for Our readers (who probably do not" have them all at hand) some brief games which can be called the most ancient of chess games known. Tho manuscripts of Giulio Cesare Polerio da Lanciano, the most talented player of ' Rome in the beginning v of the sixteenth century, are known. Van der Linde has described them, and systematically reported alj most.all the games. There ore seven manuscripts, and to these can be added an ' eighth, whioh ultimately camo into the possession of Mr J, A. Leon, of London, who has described it and roported the test of it in the 'British Chess Magaeine' of 1894 (p. 317 et scq.). In these manuscripts, especially in the first one discovered (in 1844), which belongs to M. Dossan, of Paris, are ..collected many games attributed by Polerio to himself, Giovanni, Leonardo da Outri (called II Puttino), Ruy Lopez, Giovanni Domenico d'Arminio, Don Cartes" d'Avalos (a Spaniard, resident in Naples), and other contemporary players. Many of these games arc of some absolute interest; and all. of them have a relative interest for the period in which they were played and collected. It will therefore not be displeasing to see any 'one of theni again. Played in Spain. It was between the Cleric (Ruy Lopez di Zafra) and Gio Leonardo (II Puttino—Polerio). '■ 1 - • lung's Gambit Declined. White. Black. Ruy Lopez. Gio Leonardo. 1 P-K 4 1 P-K 4 2 P-K B 4 3 P-Q 3P 3 B-Q B4 3 P-Q B 3 4 Kt-K B 3 4 B-K Kt 5? 5.P x K P SQP.IP . 6BxßPch G K x B 7 Ktx K P ch 7K-K 8 Q x B 8 Kt-K B 3 . ... 9 Q-K 6 ch 9 Q-K 2 10 Q-Q B 8 ch 10 Q-Q 11 Q x. Q ch 11 K x Q 12 Kt-B 7 oh, and wins. Note.—-This game does not do very much honor to the celebrated "Knight Errant": but is ! t known how at the Court of Madrid . ho played the first games with tho ecclesiastic of Zafra purposely to lose them, in order •to cause his strength to rebound so much : the more in the succeeding games, which he intended to win! : -•• .- .. -. 11.. ' 1 Queen's Bishop's Pawn Opening. White. Black. • Lopez. »X. i•■ -1 P-K. 4 . . • 1 P-K 4 ! 2 P-Q B 3 2 Kfc-K B 3 \ . 3 Q-8.2 ~ , 3-B-B 4 - - ' '• 4 P-K.: B'4 ,'tßsKi . :. 'SUxBS P x B P •6 P-Q 4 6 Kt-R 4 7 Q-K B 2 7 P-K Kb 4 8 B-K 2 8 Kt-Kt 2 9R-Kt 3 9 B P x P c 10'Q xKt P 10 P-K R 3 ■ ', 11 P-K R 4 11 P-K B 3 c 12 P-K 5 12 Kt-K B 3 i 13 Q-K Kt .4 13 Kt x R P i 14 Q-R sch 14 K-B , I 15 B x Kt P 15 B P x B I 16 R-B ch, and wins. . J Note.—-This ; game is also found in the work of Buy Lopez.

VBj^s ; .<SßmTO K .Pe<)lined.. , , , - ~ 1 .White., ' - ,- 7 •■■;'* Black. ""'. ’ ' XoW’' l -' r '- '■ x:\ ! 4 .>" •' - 1 P-K 4 2 P-K B 4> - ‘OKt-K-fi-S ’ 3'IWB'J' i\3 B-x P ' . 4 P-Q 4 Kts -5 B-Q'3 „ , . 1...! 5>Q-K 2.-, . '■ 6 Q-K 2 - ,6,Kt-Q B 3 7 Kt-K. £3.7 ". : 7,.P-K Kb 4 8 P,Q 5 .... 8 Kt-K 4 . 9Kt x Kt., P ' ' s 9Kt s Q.P ’ 10 P x Kb ' 10 Q x Kt H P-K Kt 3 ■ 11K-Q 12 B x B P ’ 12 : Ki x B oh. 13 Q x Kt ' 13 R-K ch 14 K-Q 2 14, Q-K Kt 3 ' 15 Q R-K IS Q.x Q ch : 16 Kx Q 16 B-K 2 v 17 R x 8,. 17 R x B 18 B-K Kt 5 ‘ 18 K-K ‘ - 19 B x B 19 K x B 20 B-K ch, onU wins easily. . IY. . Graoco. Piano. White. 'T'Black. Busnardoi. X. 1 P-K 4 1 P-K 4 2 KbK B 3 2 Kt-Q B 3 3 B-B. 4 ? B-B 4 4 P-Q .B 5 7 , 4 Q-K 2 i. 5 Castles 5 P-Q 5 6 P.Q 4 6 B-Kt 5 7 B-K Kt 5 7 P-K B 5 8 B-B 4 8 P-K Kt 4 9 Kt x Kt P 9 P j Kt 10 Q-B 5 oh 10 K-Q • 11 B x Kt P U Kt-B 3 12 Q-B 6 12 B-K B 13 P-K B 4 13 K P x Q P 14 P-K 5 ifPxPdisoh. 15 K-B .... 15 P x Kt P 16 P x Kt 16 P xßffc queens 17 P x Q cSj and wins. CHESS BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, .The first gajne by -wireless'telegraphy, in mid-ooean, was played ou Tuesday, June 10; between the Cun&rd sleamerCampania and the American liner Philadelphia. The stoamerp vara about seventy miles apart. The game, after two hours forty-five minutes, was stopped by business calls. Here la the gome;— ■White, ' Blade, Philadelphia. Campania, 1 P-K 4 1 P-Q 3 2 P-K B 4 , 2‘P-Q Kt 3 3 Q Kt-B 3 3 P-K Kt 3 4 B-B 4 , 4 P-K 5 5 P-Q 4 5 Q B-Kt 2 6 P-Q 5 6 P-K 4 7 K Kt-B 3 7 K B-Kt 2 8 Q-Q 3. 8 K P x P 9 B x P 9 Kt-Q 2 10 B-Q Kt 5 10 Q-K 2 11 B-K Kt 3 11 P-Q E 3 12 B-B 6 12 B x B 13 P x B 13 Kl-Q B 4 - 14 Q-K 3 14 BxKt ch 15 Q x B ■ IB Q x P ch 16 K-Q 2 16 Q-Q 4 eh„ 17 K-Q Bsq • 17-P-K 1) 3 ' 18 B-K sq ch 18 Kt-K 3 19 Q-K 3 19 K-B 2 20 Q-Kt 3 20 Q x Q 21 B P x Q 21 Kt-K 2 Campania seems to have the better game, although the Philadelphia players claim a draw. ‘