CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 9

CHESS

[Conducted by J.O.F.H.] The Otago Chess Club meet for play at the rooms, Liverpool street, Dunedin, daily at noon, and every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at eight o’clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. AH communications must • be addressed ‘•Chess Editor,” ‘ Evening Star.’ PROBLEM No. 927. By W. Pulitzer. ! Black, 8 pieces.

White, 9 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. 3 R 4; 3 Kfc Kt 3; p 3 P 3; p p kt 5; 3 Ip 2; 4EP 2; lp4Kl; Ik2 Q E 2. ' V PROBLEM No. 928. By W. ConnBlack, 2 pieces.

White, 8 pieces. White to play and mate in three moves. 8; 5 Kt 2; 2 k 5; 4 B 3: KtP6- P n B; IP2K3; 8. ’ P SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 921. Key move : B-R 2. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No 922 (a) Q-Q R sq, k-q 4; Q x Kt ch. b ? %S Sq ’ k ' b 4; Q-Q Kt ch. (c) Q Q R sq, p queens; Q-K 5 ch. (a) Q-Q R sq, rsb; Q-Q 4 ch.

THE COMMONWEALTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

The cables announcer] this week that the young Western Australian chamoion, Mr W. b. Viner. had won the Commonwealth championship,. The following games, together with Ine annotation, are taken from tho 'Melbourne Leader':—

—Game No. 760. Centre Gambit.

White. Black. , S ; VineT - M r C G - M- Watson.. 1 P-K 4 l 2->_K 4 2 P-Q 4 2 P v p--3 Q x V 3 Kt-Q B 3 r S"5 ~ 4 P "Q K * 3 (a) 5 B-Q 2 5 B-B 4 6 Q-K Kt 3 6 Q-B 3 7 B-B 3 7 B-Kt 5 8 Kt-B 3 8 Q-Kt 3 9 'B-Q 5 9 Q x Q 10 R P x Q io K Kt-K 2 £ P; R 3 11 Bxß ch 12 Kt s B 12 B-Kt 2 13 Q Kt-Kt 5 13 Castles (Q R) W P-B 4 u P-K a 5 J 15 Dwtlw (Q R) 15 K-Kt 16 B-B 2 16 Kt-Kt 3 17 Kt-B 3 17 K R-K 13 'Kt-Q 4 is Kt x Kt 19 R x Kt 19 Et-K 4 20 P-Kt 3 20 P-0 3 21 P-B 3 21 R-K 2 22 Kt-Q 22 P-Q B 4 23 R-Q 2 23 Kt-B 3 2-1 Kt-K 5 24 Ki-Q 5 25 P-R 4 23 B-B 26 P-K Kt 4 26 P-Q R 3 27 K-Kt. 2 27 Q R-K 23 B-Q 3 28 K-Kt 2 29 K-B 3 29 B-Q 2 30 Kt-Q 5 30 B-B 2 31 Kt-Kt 4 31 K-R 2 52 B-B 32 E-Q 2 33 Et-B 2 55 Kt x Kt 3* K x Kt 34 R-K 3 35 R-R5 35 B-B 3 36 P-Kt 5 36 P x P 37 R x P 37 P-B 3 38 R-R5 33 R-Q 3 39 P-Kt 3 39 R-K 40 B-R 5 40 R-K 2 41 P-K Kt 4 41 K-Kt 2 " 42 P-Kt 5 42 R-K 4 43 B-B 5 43 R-K 2 44 P x P « P x P (b) 45 R-R 6 45 R-K B 2 46 B-K 6 46 R (B 2)-B 47 R-Kt 2 47 P-Kt 4 48 R P x P 48PxP 49 R-Kt 7 ch 4"9 K-Kt 3 50 R (Kt 7)-Kt 6 50 P x P 51 P x P 51 R-Q R 52 K-Q 2 52 R-R 6 53 K-K 2 53 R-Kt 6 54 55 Ps B 55 R-Q R 56 K-Kt 2 56 R-R 7 ch " 57

Notes. (a) This mode of defence, although promising to drive the Q, is not so meritorious as that arising from 4 B-Kt 5 or 4 Kt-K B 3. fb) After a loug series of moves made for positional purposes. White has managed to cleverly isolate this pawn on a black square, and must succeed in winning it in a few mora moves. —Game No. 761. Buy Lopez. WTiite. Black Mr C. G. M. Watson. Mr W. S. Yiner. 1 P-K 4 l P-K 4 2 Kt-K B 3 2 Kt-Q B 3 3 B-Kt 5 3 P-Q R 3 *B-R4 4 Kt-B 3 5 P-Q' 3 5 P-Q 3 6 P-Q B 3 6 B-K 2 7 Castles 7 Castles 8 Q Kt-Q 2 8 P-Q Kt 4 9 B-B 2 r 9 Kt-fc 10 P-Q 4 10 B-B 3 11 P-Q 5 11 Kt-K 2 12 Kt-K 12 P-K Kt 3 13 P-Q Kt 5 (a) 13 K B-Kt 2 14 B-Kfc 2 14 P-K B 4 15 P-B 3 15 K-It 16 P-Q B 4 16 P-B 5 17 Kt-Q 3 17 P-Kt 4 18 P-Q B 5 18 P-Q B 3 19 P-Q R 4 19 B-Kt 2 20 Ps Q P 20 Kt sP(Q 3) .21 Bz P 21 P x Q p ' 22 B x B ch 22 K x B 23 Kt-B 2 23 R-B 24 R-R 2 (b) 24 Kt-B 3 25 Q-R ch 25 Q-K B 3 26 Kt-K Kt 4 (?) 26 Q x Q ' 27 Q R x Q 27 P-K R 4 ?« Kt-K B 2 28 Kt-Q 5 29 B-Q 3 29 R-B 0 30 R P x P 30 R P x p 31 R-R 7 31 R-Q R 32 R x R 32 B x R 53 R-Q »R 33 B-Kt 2 34 P-K 5 (c) 34 Kt-K B 2 35 P-K 6 35 Kt-Q 3 36 P-K 7 3S K-B 3 37Kt(82)-K4cb(d) 37 P s Kt 38 B x K P 38 K x P 39 R-R 7 39 Kt-Q B 3 40 B x Kt 40 R x B 41 Kt-K 4 41 R-B 8 ch • 42 K-B 2 42 Kt xKt ch White resigned. Notes.

(a) If ia not quite plain whv White did not follow up bis last move with P-K B 4 in. sread of allowing Blact to assume the offensive.

(b) An ingenious derice to free his som-what cramp d position. See next move. N ln spite however, of the exchange of queens, Black dots not relax his grip on White's game, and probably R-B would have been better. (c) There seems to be no good reason for this move, as the pawn now becomes untenable. R-Kt might have been played, though Black's threat of P-Kt 5 is even then far from comfortable.

(d) A strange miscalculation, which loses at once. Perhaps White's misconception as to the results of this move accounts for the previous erroneous jßawu £laj.

TARRASOH v. MAROCZY.

In the chess column of the ' Berlin LokalAnzeiger' Dr Tarrasob expresses his readiness to engage in a match against Maroczy. He writes ip reference to the Hungarian master's challenge :—r" Cartainly 1 wpuld play a match against him, but there must be no restriction to any one opening. Afc the close of the championship tourney in Nuremberg, in whjpb we are both to take part—after a shore interval of rest—we will enter the lists against each other on the same conditions, roughly, as those ot my match with Marshall. Not only am I willing to do this, but-I-should take an especial pleasure in measuring my strength against such an original, steady, aud far-seeing player—a very Ulysses among chess players in his wealth of stratagem. One condition my match with .Lasker fall through. Lasker has priority. And he, has declared his readiness to play me; it lies with the chess world to bring the match about. The energetic president of the German Schr-chbund, Herr Prof. Gebhaxdt, is straying to lirrange the matter. It is to be hoped ha will succeed; the necessary cash nexug is alone wanting. Have we no Mycsenas of ..chess? I for my part ask for nothing, but La?ker, as is only reasonable, requires richly compensating fqr travelling and other expenses entailed. Should trjit match come to pass—and it could easily follow upon the Nuremberg tourney—then 1 must ask Maroczy to excuse me this year. Next year, however, I should gladly be at his service: this year, indeed, if "my match with Lasker should happen to fall through—a con tingency I should be sorry to anticipate."— ' B.C.M.'