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Evening Star, Issue 12551, 8 July 1905, Page 10

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[Conducted by J. H. F. HawelJ The Otago Chess Club meet for play at the rooms, Liverpool street, Dunedin, dailj at noon, and every Monday. Wednesday, and Saturday evening at eight o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Solutions of problems received from "To Kalon" (Nm. 819, 820) and "Perplexed" (Nos. 817, 818). All communications must be addressed " Chess Editor," ' Evening Star.' PROBLEM No. "821. By A. Wheeler. Black,. 6 pieces.

White, 9 pieces. White to play and mate in two mores. Q 1 B 5; 4- p p 2; 5 kt 2; kt R 6; q 1 tISt2K; f 1 KU P }; tP3i &. PROBLEM No. 822. By Silas Augas (Newcastle-on-Tyne). Black, 5 pieces.

White, -4 pieces. . White to play and mate in three moves. B; 4 p R 1 K; * Kt 1 p 1; 7 k; 2 q4 p; 8j 8; 7 Q. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 815. Key move: R-B 6. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 816. (a) Kt-K 6—k x kt; Q-K 8 ch. lb) KtrK 6—kt-b 2; Kt (K 6) x Kt. (c) Kfc-K 6—k-b 3; Q-K 8 oh. GAME No. 675. Petrofi's Defenoe. White. Black. Marco. Maroczy. 1 P-K 4 IP-Kt 2 Kt-K B 3 2 Kt-K B 3 3 Kt x P 3 P-Q 3 4 Kt-K B 3 4 Kt x P 5 P-B 4 (a) 5 B-K 2 6 Kt-B 3 6 Kt x Kt 7 Kt P x Kt 7 Castles 8 P-Q 4 8 R-K sq 9 B-K 2 9 Kt-Q 2 10 Castles 10 Kt-B so 11 Kt-K sq (b) 11 B-B 4 (c) 12 B-Q 3 12 B x B 13 Q x B 13 Q-Q 2 14 Kt-B 2 14 P-Q 4 15 P x P 15 O x P 16 Kt-K 3 16 Q-Q 2 -17R-Kfc S q 17 P-Q B 3 18 Kt-B 4 18 B-Q sq 19 P-B 4 .IS P-B 3 2d Kt-K 3 20 P-Q Kt 3 21 R-B 3 21 B-B 8 , 22 B-Q 2 22 Q-K 3 23 Q-B 2 23 Q-K 5 24 Q-Kt 3 ch 24 K-R sq 25 Q R-K B sq 25 Kt-Kt 3 ■■• 26 P-Kt 3 . 26 Kt-K 2 22 Q-B 7 27 Q R-B sq (28 P-Kt 4 28 Q-Kt 3 ,29 Q x Q !»P«<J '3O P-K R 4 30 Kt-Q 4 i 31 Kt x Kt 31 P x Kt 132 B-K 3 32 Drawn. Notes. >• 00 The nsual continuation being S P-Q 4 P-Q 4, etc. The text more was suggested by the well-known Vienna amr l U.\ii, and adopted by Marco on various occa'iions, th 3 Idea being to shut in Black's K £ 'whilst his cwii could occupy the usual diagonal at Q 3 bearing upon K R 7.' <' (tl) If 13, B-Q 3, then 11-..8-Kt 5. ;. (<$ Maroczy is equal to the occasion, as may -from.his-dereijDment. Tbs Kt

•t B tq not only defends in anticipation the K B P, but he also prevents White * from occupying the diagonal with B-Q 3. The tame precision marks his movements right through, till he proposes the exchange of queers ''on the twenty-eighth ■ move,- ■ and :,a drawje. few moves later. It bears tfie *ype' of a pound and correctly-played game by both sides*^-'The Field-' GAME No. 676. A genuine The score and noteß are taken from the 'New Orleans Times Democrat': — Beans Gambit. White. Black. Herr Herraig. Herrßhode. 1 P-K A 1 P-K 4 2 Kt-K B 3 2 KtQ B 3 3 B-B * 3 B-B 4 4 P-Q Kt 4 4 B x P - 5 P-B 3 "6 B-R 4 1 6P-Q* 6P * P ~ 7 Castles 7 P x P fp.) 8 Q-Kt 3 8 Q-B 3 9 P-K 5 9 Q-Kt 3 10 Kt x P 10 & Kt-K 2 11 B-R 3 11 P-Kt 4 12 Kt x P 12 Q R-Kt 13 B i Kt 13 K x B 14 Q-B 3 ch 14 K-Q (b) 15 Q R-B 15 U-fi-t 5 16 K R-Q 16 B-Kt i.' 17 Kt-Q 6! (c) 17 P x Kt 18 R x P 18 Q-Kt 5 19 P-K 6! 19 Kt-K 4 (d) 20 R x P ch*! 20 Kt x R 21 Q-Q 6 21 P x P 22 B-Kt 5 22 P-K 4 2i l> x Kt 23 Q x B 24 Q x R ch 24 K-K 2 (e) • 25 Q x R 25 Q-Kt 5 (f) 26 R-B 3 26 P-K 5 . 27 Q-Q Kt 8 27 Q-Q 2 28 Kt-Q 4 28 Q x Kt 29 Q x B ch 29 KB 3 30 R-B 6 ch 30 K-Kt 4 31 Q-K 7 ch 31 K-R 4 (g) 32 Q-B 7 ch 32 K-Kt 4 (hj) 7.T, ■" •" ' nh 3* K-Kt 5 (i) 34 R-Kt 6 ch 34 P x R 35 Qx Pch . 35KxP j u . -. „ oh 36 Jv-R 6 37 Q-B 5 ch And White mates! Notes, (a) An immediately compromising defence, (bj Beautiful so far. The books recommend 14...8-Kt 5. (c) A knight sacrifice; not only very fine, but unusually deep. (d) Black Las nothing better, and White now proceeds to display his combinative powers in the most brilliant manner. (e) If 24...8-B, White naturally continues the attack with Kt x P, wherewith he wins by Kt-B 7 ch, then takes rook at R 8, in the lace of.evsry possibility. (f) Apparently Black now awakes to the attack; however, White brings things to a satisfactory conclusion in a very beautiful fashion. (g) At this point White announced mate in six moves. (hj) If 32...P-Kt 3, 33 Q x R P ch, and then R x Kt P. (i) Or, 33...K xP; 34 Q-B 4 ch, K-R 4; 35 R-R 6 ch P x R; 36 Q-B 5 ch; and 37 P-Kt 3 ch, mate. NOTES. * Mr William Ewart Napier, amateur chess champion of England, in a letter to the honorary, secretary of the New Zealand Chess Association, states that he finds it inopportune at present to enter upon his projected tour of this country and Australia; He has not, however, abandoned the idea, hut hopes in the near future to be able to undertake the journey and have " a tilt with far-away exponents of the gams.*' Marshall v. Janowski.—lt will be remembered that the American champion won this match by 8 wins to 5, and 4 games drawn. Immediately on the sonclusioa of the match M. Janowski addressed the following letter to his vanquisher:—" I think that the result of our match is far from establishing our respective strength; on the contrary, as in the majority of the games I have let slip either a win or a draw, I am persuaded normally I ought to win easily. I have therefore the honor to challenge to a return match, on the following conditions: The wirlner to bo the first to score 10 games, draws not counting. I offer you the advantage of four games—that is, that my first four won games will not count (!); the stake not to exceed £200." In other words: " You have beate/i me level, but I can beat you, giving you a long start." It is understood 'hat Ma-sUail will cousult his backers before replying M. Nardus offered £2O for. a supplementary game, £l2 for the winner and £8 for the loser. M. Janowski won this game. . The Barmen Congress.—This important .fathering will open on August 29. Seven Tourneys will be organised, two for masters (with prizes of 1,500, 1,000, 700, and 500 marks, the other with twelve prizes from 1 000 to 25 marks), two tourneys for amatctsrs of the first class, two ordinary tdurncys, and on? confined to members of the Niederrheiriischen Association. Seances by Bernstein.—At the strong A.tnancher Club the young master played four "umeß simult-ineously, two or three of the strongest players in Munich playing in consultation at each board, and the single player won 3 and drew 1. Later on he played 63 "•umes simultaneously, and in six hours won 52, draw 5, End lost 6, or a score or 54',—8£ in his favor. ' Mr Pillsburv is reported to bo new processing favorably from the result* of his operation.