CHESS.

Evening Star, Issue 13090, 24 October 1908, Page 4

CHESS.

[Conducted by J.H.F.H.] J 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, All communications > must be addressed “Chess■ Editor,” ‘Evening Star.’ . PROBLEM No. 167. By P! B. Tillett. , ■ jßlaok, 9 pieces. , :

White, 13 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. 1 Kt 1 Kt b 3; p 4 p. 2; P 1 p kt 1 P pi; P 1 k p P kt R 1; 2 P 5; 4 P 5; B R 6; K 5 B 1. PROBLEM No. 168. By F. Healey. Black. 6 pieces.

White, 5 pieces. White to play and mate in three moves. 1 Q 5 K; 7 b; 8; 3 p 2 p 1; P 2 k p 5; 4 It j; 1 p B 2; 8. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 161. Key move: Q-B 8. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 162. (a) R-Q 3, k x kt; Q-B 6 ch. (b) R-Q 3, k s r; Kt-K 5 ch. GAME No. 372. (Played in the British Championship Tournament. Notes from the ‘Field.’) Vienna Game. White. Black. Mr J. H. Blake. Mr R. E. Lean. 1 P-K 4 1 P-K 4 2 Kt-Q B 3 2 Kt-K B 3 3 B-B 4 3 B-B 4 4 P-Q 3 4 P-B 3 (a) 5 P-B 4 5 P-Q 4 6 P x Q P 6 Kt-Kt 5 7 Q-K 2 7 Kt-B 7 (b) 8 Kt-K 4 8 Kt x R 9 Kt x B 9 Q-Q R 4 ch 10 B-Q 2 10 Q x Kt 11 Q x P ch 11 K-Q sq (c) 12 R-K 3 12 Q-R 4 ch 13 P-B 3 13 R-K sq 14 Q-Q 6 ch 14 Kt-Q 2 15 K-Q 2 15 R x B 16 K x R 16 Q-Kt 3 ch 17 P-Q 4 17 Q x Kt P 18 R-K B sq 18 Q x P ch 19 B-Q 3 19 K-K sq l.d) 20 Kt-K 2 20 Q-R 4 21 P x P 21 P x P 22 H x Kt 22 R-Kt sq 23 R Q B sq 23 P-Q B 4 (e) 24 Rx P (t) 24 Qx P ■ 25 B-Kt 5 25 Q-R 6 ch 26 K-B 2 26 Q x R (g) 27 B x Kt ch 27 B x B 28 P x Q 28 K-Q sq 29 P-B 6 29 D-K 5 30 Q-B 5 30 R-R sq ' 31 P-B 5 31 B-B sq 32 Kt-B 3 32 Resigns Notes. (a) P-Q 3 is a safer continuation. (b) This continuation is too risky, and must be ventured to a certain extent in the dark. Therefore the more cautious course. 7...Castles, might be suggested. If 8 Kt-K 4, then 8...P x P; 9 Kt x B, Q-R 4 ch, followed by Q x Kt. (c) Q-K 2 would probably have been followed by 12 P-Q 6, Q x Q ch; 13 P x Q, and Black could not have extricated the K Kt. id) The alternative would be 19...P-Q B 4. If 20 P x 15,I 5 , then 20...Q x P ch: 20 Qx Q. Kt s Q, with an even game at least. If 20 Kt-K 2, then 20...P x P ch; 21 Kt xP, Q-B 4, again with an even game. (e) This advance loses now. R-Kt 7 should have been played. (f) A very pretty move, winning right off. (g) There is nothing else, and this is no good. GAME No. 375. (From the recent Prague Tournament.) King’s Bishop’s Opening. White. Black. R. Spielmann. R. Tcichmann. 1 P-K 4 1 P-K 4 2 B-B 4 2 Kt-K B 3 3 P-Q 3 3 B-B 4 4 Kt-Q B 3 4 P-Q 3 5 B-K 3 5 B-Kt 3 6 K Kt-K 2 6 Castles 7 Castles 7 Kt-B 3 BBxBB R P x B 9 P-B 4 9 P x P 10 R x P 10 B-K 3 11 B-Kt 5 11 Kt-K R 4 12 R-B 2 12 Kt-K 4 13 P-Q 4 13 Kt-Kt 3 14 Q-Q 2 14 P-Q B 3 15 B-Q 3 15 P-Kt 4 16 P-K 5 16 P x P 17 B x- Kt 17 R P x B 18 Kt-K 4 18 P x P 19 Kt x P 19 B-Q 4 20 Kt-Kt 5 20 Q-Q 2 21 P-Q R 3 21 Q R-Q sq 22 R-Q sq 22 P-B 3 23 Kt-R 3 23 B x P 24 R x B 24 Q x Kt (R 6) 25 R x P 25 K-R 2 Resigns FACTS AND TRIFLES. Mr W. S. Branch, writing in the ‘Cheltenham Examiner’ of May 27, says apropos of Dr Lasker’s lecture at Birmingham; “Dr Lasker is the best authority on how to play chess. But his knowledge of the history of the gams is not up to date. There is no evidence whatever of the existence of chess 2,000 years ago, and there is negative evidence to tho contrary. That is to say, there are no references to the game where we should expect to find some (if it was known of at the time) in the writings still extant and very numerous of chroniclers, poets, and others—until about 1,200 years ago, by which time chess may have had a life of two centuries, possibly three, but little, if any, more —and not at all outside India.” The ‘Norwich Mercury’ says that the first telephone match played in England was on June 12, 1884, between the Lite:try Institute, Norwich, and Pine Bank Tower Thorpe, through wires having been put up for the occasion. Mr Sharp is of opinion—and few will dispute it—that chess is a wonderful antidote to depression. It inculcates immediate concentration and application, and every doctor advocates meptal, in addition to physical, activity for those who are given to melancholy. Even after a hard day’s labor at the desk ok in the shop, chess, with its manifold attractions, does not weary tho player solver, or problemist, but by taking him “ out of himself,produces a really refreshing effect. It is almost a proverb!at !sm that wo use our brains too little, and the cultivation of the chess faculty should be encouraged to every extent.