CHESS.

Evening Star, Issue 14926, 12 July 1912, Page 10

CHESS.

[Conducted by J.H.F.H.] The Otago Chess Chib 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. 553. By /■ Mach. Black, 10 pieces.

White, 7 pieces. White to play and male in two moves. 3Kt2rl: 4p3-''2Q3bl; plßlPklKl; 2p3nq 2b3pl; K2H4; 8. PROBLEM No. 554. By T.R.D. Black, 7 pieces.

White, 6 pieces. White to play and urate in three moves. K7; riRIK3: 4P5; 8; p3n3; IplpPnlp; IPv6; 8. SOLUTION OP PROBLEM No. 547. Key move; Q-R 6. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 518. Key move: R-Q 3. N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT. The following games were played in the New Zealand clnutipionship tournament. Annotation by H. L. James: GAME- No. 743. While, Mason; lilac!;, James. 1 P-K 4 P-Q B 4 2 Kt-K B 5 Kt-Q B 3 3 P-Q 4 P x r 4 Kt x P P-Q 3 5 B-K 2 P-K Kt 3 6 B-K 3 B-Kt 2 7 Kt-B 3 Ki-B 5 8 Castles (a) Castles 9 Q-Q 2 P-Q 4 10 Q R-Q 1 (bi Kt x Kt (c) 11 Q x Kt.B-K 5 n!) 12 P-K 5 >c) Kt-Q '2 13 P-B 4 Ki-Kt 3 14 B-B 3 P-B 5 15 Kt r. P P x P (f) 10 Q-B 5 Kt x Kt. 17 B x Kt B :: B 18 R x B Q-K 1 19 P x P R x R eh 20 K x R R-B 1 21 O-Q 4 Q-B 2 eh . 22 K-Ki 1 R x P hi) 23 R-Q 8 ch ...,B-B 1 24 B-R 6 Resigns fa) Either here or on Ins next move Kt-Kt 5 is to bo rcconmitnided, preventing the advance of Black’s O, P. (b) Here P-P. 3 strongly suggests itself as desirable. (f) An error arising {Tom nervous timidity. There scorns to be no good reason for not takings the pawn. For 10 P x P: 11 Kt x Kt. Q x Q; 12 Kt x K P ch, K-R 1: 13 R x Q, B-K 3; does not appear to yield White any special advantage. id) Very bad. Instead of litis pitiful puoillarimity. why not Ki x P, followed by Q x Q or Kt x Kt, siecoriling to circumstances? (e) Of course! Now Black’s gstnic is as gocil as 10-l already. If) Frantic closiocia>ion merely. (g> A hideous blunder. Though nothing is really sufficient here, yet R-B 1 would at least not have lost outright. " Funk" has been Black’s trouble throughout this feeble game. ■’ it is Fear, O little hunter, if is Fear!” GAME No. 743. While, Connell; Black, Jourdain. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-K B .3 Kt-Q B 3 3 B-Kt 5 P-Q R 3 4 B-R 4 Ki• B 5 hj Castles B-K 2 6 P-Q 4 P-Q Kt 4 fa) Y B-Kt 3 P-Q 3 8 Q-Q 3 ibi Ki-Q P 9 Kt x Kt P x Kr 10 P-Q R 4 (to B-Q 2 11 Q x Q P Castles 12 P-Q B 3 P-B 4 13 Q-K 5 B-B 3 14 B-B 2 Q-B 2 15 Kt-Q 2 K K-K 1 16 Q-Kt 3 Q R-B 1 17 K-K 1 B-B 1 18 P-B 3 Kt-R 4 19 Q-R 4 P-K I. 5 20 Kl-B 1 P-Q 4 21 P x Kt P V x Kt P 22 Kt-K 3......P x P 25 P x P B-K 2 24 Q-B 2 Kt-B 5 25 P-K 5 Q x P id) 26 Kt-B 4 (c)...Q-Q 4 (f) 27 Kt-Kt 6 Q-Q 3 28 Kt x R R x Kt 23 B-B 4 Q-Q 2 30 Q R-Q 1 Q-Kt 2 31 P-R 3 Cg) P-B 5 Hi) 32 B-Kt 5 ii) K-Kt 2 33 R-K B 1 Kt-K I 5 34 Q x P ch K-R 1 35 Q x B Q-Kt 3 ch 36 K-Q 4 Resigns (a) The usual move here is I* x P; th.o text, move never occurs, apparently in master play in litis petition. though Brody played it against. Marco ai. Paris. But Brody hardly ranks as a. master. (It) An eccentricity of genius ; but P-Q B 3 i-- to lie preferred; lor, if 8 Kt x K P, then B-Q 51 kO Q x O P will not do, because of the threatened advance of the hostile Q H P. (d) Exposing the Q to attack thus is very bad ladies; Kt bail; u, R 4 seeing here the least unsatisfactory course. But hit prospeels arc not brigid, anyhow. le) Neglecting 'his opportunity: Ki-B 5 hero wins a piece, or else gets the Q for. at mod, R and Kt, E-.g.; 26 Kt-B t>. Q-B 2; 27 Kt j; B ch. It x Kt; 28 R x R, Q x R; 29 H-Kt 5, K-Kt, 2; 30 R-B 1. (A.) i if) Eor some moves Black has been drifti in" steudilv towards the shoals; but this is mere blunder. The Q should retire again to B 2 ; though even then Black has a bad game. (g) A wholly unnecessary cn-appm. and a second opportunity, missed: R x 15 is the move here. For' if. in reply, Qx R, then 32 B-Kt 5. K-Kt, 2; 33 R-K B 1; end u 31 Kt-Kt 5. then of course. R x Q. (hj) Still blind to his danger; Kt-Q 4 here afforded him some defence. (i) Wain R X B would have been equally decisive an-l more artistic. Mr Connell ha? conducted the attack with dash, certainly, but with insufficient, directness, while his opponent ha-; made a very ineffective resistjinup.' Aln-s tor So long in bis unlucky Irish wars!