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Evening Star, Issue 14523, 26 November 1910, Page 2

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[Conducted by J.H.F.H.] The Otago Chess Club meet for play at the rooms, Liverpool street, Dunedin, daily •t noon, and every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at eight o’clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ F.,” Castle street. —R-Q R sq seems quite correct i£, as you suggest, Black plays K-B k, then Q-Kt sq mates. AD communications must bo addressed “Chess Editor." ‘Evening Star.’ ' PROBLEM No. 383. By J. J. O'Keefe. Black, 9 pieces.

■White, 6 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. 6QI; 4BpKl; 4p3; 3p2ktp; 3KB2k; 8 SpPp; 5r2. PROBLEM; No. 384. By Rev. G, Dobbs. Black, 2 pieces.

White, 8 pieces. While to play and male in three move®. 8; 8: 3kP5; 382P1; IKUR3K; 5p4: 3P4; 3Q4. SOLUTION' OF PROBLEM No, 377. Key move: Kt-K B 5. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM. No. 578. Key move: Kt-K I 4. GAME No. 582. Score awl notes from the •Manchester Guardian.’ Four Knights Game. White. Mr F. D. Yates: Black, Herr Spielruami. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kl-K B 3 Kt-Q B 3 3 Kt-B 3 Kl-B 3 4 B-Ki. 5 B-Kt 5 5 Castles Castles 6 P-O, 3 P-Q 3 7 B-Kl 5 Kt-K 2 8 B x Ki P x B 9 Kl-K U 4 P-B 3 10 B-B 4 Kt-Kt 3 11 Kl x Kfc Spiehnann’s defence to the Four Knights game will become classic. It will be argued that While does not. effect any good purpose by playing Kt-K R 4, and then exchanging knights, but it is the only ihethod he has of peltin'' sonic attack. 11 Q-R 5 no doubt will L: tried, but its value seems doubtful, owing to Black’s Kt-B 5. 12 P-B 4 K-Ki 2 13 Q-B 3 Q-K 2 14 P-B 5 B-Q 2 15 Kt-Q 2 R-R <-9 16 P-B 3 P-Q 4 17 B-Kt 5 B-R 4 18 K-R sq R-R 3 19 P-K R 3 R-K Kl sq 20 Kt-Kt 3 ?P x K P 21 P x K P R iKn sq-K R sq By which move Black will compel While to guard against R x P ch. 22 K R-Q sq It seems hard io I‘cmovo the rook fiom supporting the queen with !’ x P in view. But if Q K-Q sq. White would have. le.e, elbow room fur his kmgnt or his king. 25 R-Q, 2 B-B sq 24 Q K-Q .-q Kt-K 2 is the oulv other move wc can suggest. B-Q sq could still be met with P-K lit 4. 25 Ki-B sq R-B 5 26 Q-Q 5 B-Kt 3 Preparing for a pretty coup. 27 Kt-K 2 Q-B 4 28 ILK B sq R-Q sq 29 Resigns If 29 Q-K 2. K (Q tq) x R : 30 Q x R, R x R cii. ami males next mote. GAME No. 533. (From the Hamburg International Touniameni.) Ruy Lopez. White. ( . Schlcchter; Black, F. Kohulein. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Ki-K B 5 Kt-Q B 3 3 B-Kt 5 P-Q R 3 -1 B-U 4 Ki-B 3 5 (’astles B-K. 2 6 K-K sq P-Q Kl 4 7 B-Kt 3 P-Q 3 8 P-B 3 Q Kt-R 4 9 B-B 2 P-B 4 K) P-Q 4 Q-B 2 U Q Kt-Q 2 Kt-B 3 12 P-Q R 4 Q U-Kt sq 13 K P x P R P x P 14 P-Q 5 Q Kt-R 4 15 Kt-B sq Castles 16 B-Kl 5 B-Q 2 17 P-Q Hi 3 P-R 3 18 B-Q 2 R-R sq 19 Jii-Kt 3...-.IM: 2 20 Kt-R 4 Kt x Q P 21 Ki-B 5 B x Kt 22 Kt x B K!-B 3 23 R-K 3 K-R 2 24 ILK 3 Ki-Ki ,-q 2b Kt x R 1’ P x Hi 26 B x P Ut signs FACTS AND TRIFLES. The linvt piece of advice 1 would offer to the. young .student who wishes to improve likeness j- that in ihe formanon of his style he should try to follow his own aptitude ami temperament. One player derives pleasure lu working out a game ,v.:u rainy. like a sum in mathematics; a umber cares for nothing Lilt ingenious combination nml brilliant attack. H is by far the bed for each to develop his own - qualities.—Blackburne. “As Rousseau could not compose wiihoul. his cat beside him, so 1. without, my king’s bishop, cannot play chess. In its absence the game is to me lifeless mil told. The vitalising factor is misting, and 1 can devise no plan of attack.” —Dr Tarrasch. Writing from Buenos Ayres to the ‘ New York Evening Post,’ under date of July 7 last., Dr Lacker says: “The lectures I have given here were 'Paul Morphy, or the Objective Force,’ and ‘William Eteinitz, or the Defence.’ This is a world very different from that on t.hc Northern Hemisphere, and names like Morphy and Btcinitz tire not nearly so weli known as one would think who "is actistomed to move in the chess circles of Europe and North America. For that rear-on. to explain the purport of the address. I had been advised by the Committee, to attach to the name of the man that for which. In my opinion, iho man has primarily stood. Morphy has shattered the idee of personal power. Ho ha* invented, perhaps without the desire to do so. the play for ' position ’ as opposed to ' combination ’ —the objective stylo as against the subjective one. Sicinftz, again, has seen the importance of defence, and has laid the foundations for its philosophy. I explained all this in my address, and showed the analogous ideas and principles in the science of warfare. The ‘ Nacion, 1 one of the leading dailies of Buenos Ayres, published a translation of tin lecture.'.” The ‘ Times- Democratcommenting on this, rightly says that Dr Lasker, despite his ingenuity, would have some difficulty in

maintaining his thesis in regard to Morphy by concrete example. It is not the common impression that Morphy's play was rather positional than combinative, or, indeed, that he vras responsible for any innovation in style. His greatness, it seem® to us, was due to no feature that can ha clearly marked out, but was simply the result of native imaginative powers and positional insight of an extraordinary order. All the same, Dr Lasker’s contention would make extremely interesting' reading. We trust his discursive lectures may some day he collected and issued in book form. They would make a delightful, if controversial, addition to the literature of chess.