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Evening Star, Issue 14962, 23 August 1912, Page 8

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[Conducted by J.H.F.H.] TO CORRESPONDENTS. AH communications must b« addrMMd "Chess Editor," 'Evening Star/ PROBLEM No. 565. W. A. Shinkmtin. Black, 1 piece.

White, 7 pieces. White to play and mate in two mores. 8; 2P2R2: 5Kt2: 3PIkKtR; 8; 7K; 8; 8. PROBLEM No. 566. By Otttnar Nemo. Mack, 8 pieces.

White, 8 pieces. White to play and mate in three moves. 8; 3R2p1;~ 5b2; p2Ktp3; lplrk3; 2RKtlpPl; 582; Q3K3. SOLUTTOX OF PROBLEM No. 559. Key move: Q-K. 7. GAME No. 760. (Played in the New Zealand Chess Champion ship. Notes by H. L. James.) White, Jourdain; Black, Mason. 1 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 2 P-Q B 4 P-Q B 3 (a) 3 Kt-Q B 3 Kt-B 3 (b) 4 P-K 3 (c) B-B 4 (d) 5 K Ki-K 2 P-K 3 6 Kt-K 3 B-Kt 3 7 Q-Kt 3 Q-B 2 8 B-Q 2 Q Kt-Q 2 9 R-B 1 Kt-Kt 3 10 B-K 2 (e) B-K 2 11 P-Q R 4 (f) Castles 12 P-R 5 ( S ) Kt x P 13 B x Kt P x B 14 Qx P Qx P (hj) 15 Castles Q-Q 1 1G K R-Q 1 B-Q 3 17 P-K 8.4 Kt-Kt 5 (i) 18 F-R 3 Kt-B 3 19 P-K 4 B-B 2 20 B-K 3 R-K 1 21 Q-K 2 Q-K 2 22 Q-B 3 B-Kt 3 23 K Kt-K 2 Q R-Q 1 24 P-K Kt 4 (k) P-K R 3 25 Kt-Kt 3 (m) P-B 4 (u) 26 P x P B x P 27 Kt-Q 5 (o) Px Kt (p) 28BxB B x K P 29 B x Q B x Q 30 B x R B x R 31 B x Kt B x P 32 P x B P x B (q) 33 K-B 2 R-K 3 34 Kt-B 5 R-Kt 5 35 R-B 2 R-Kt 5 36 K-Kt 3 R-Kt 6 ch 37 K-R 4 P-Kt 4 38 Kt x P ch K-R 2 39 Kt-B 5 P-R 4 40 P-Kt 5 P-R 5 41 K-Kt 4 P x P 42 K x P R-K R 6 43 K-B 6 P-Kt 5 44 K x P P-Kt 6 45 R-Q 2 R-R 8 46 K-B 6 (r) KKt 1 47 Kt-K 7 ch K-B 1 48 Kt x P R-R 3 ch 49 K-K 5 R-Q B 3 50 K-Q 4 R-Q B 7 51 K-Q 3 R-B 4 52 Kt-Q B 3 R-R 4 53 K-B 4 P-R 6 54 K x Kt P P x P 55 K x P and wins

(a) This defence (probably adopted by Mr Mason .to take his opponent out of the books) is weaker than the usual P-K 3 and unscientific, inasmuch as it obstructs the Q Kt, while in the Queen's Gambit Declined the correct mobilisation of tins P is at B 4. In masterplay the text move is infrequent, the tournament books since 1904 showing but eight examples of it—viz., Ostende, 1905, three; Barmen, 1905, ens; Nurnberg, 1906, oue; Karlsbad, 1907, one; Prague, 1908, one; and Hamburg, 1910, one. (b) Marshall against Teichmann at Karlsbad and Neumann against Fleischmann at Barmen, played here P-K 3. Leonhardt against Burn at Oster.de played P-K 4. (c) The usual move here is Kt-B 3, after the example of Pillsbury v. Marshall, Monte Carlo. 1903; but the text move occurs in Taubenhaus v. Wolf, Ostende, 1905, and in Marshall v. Alekhiu, Hamburg, 1910.

(d) And Wolf and Alekhin both replied here P-K 3. The move of the B is, we must dare to sav, unscientific, and his ultimate mobilisation at Kt 3 we are compelled to call bad.

(e) Mr Jourdain's method, on the other hand, is scientifically correct, and his mobilisation is now grdivly superior to that of the champion. (f) No good purpose, however, is served by this advance. Perhaps Castles at ouoe is here his best course.

(g) Devoted without sufficient reason to an untimely end is this luckless P: " rcorihvri te salutant."

(hj) This capture and the return of the Q to Q 1, thougih apparently a loss cf time, ?eem nevertheless justifiable enough here, if properly followed up. (A.) A pawn's a pawn for a' that, even as " pigs is pigs." (i) This is either of \n abysmal profundity beyond the reach of our poor plummet—or simplv blind buudering. He might have tried "Kt-R 4. [He should play Kt-Q- 4, to be followed by P-K B 4, and so free his game (A.)] (k) Mr Jourdain conducts Ins attack with great spirit, his " Bauernsturm" now looks quite giant-like. Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they

form — Still as the breez?, b\it dreadful as the storm. (m) But here P-K 5 seems to be required. (n) This well-timed advance should have broken White's attack. (o) Mistaken tactics: B x B seems here to be au unpleasant necessity. (p) A blunder: 27 B x B ch; 28 Kt x H, Rsßcli; 29 Kt x K, Q-Kt 5, is the proper course here, and gives Black a level game fcu least. (A.) , „ (q) Though Black comes out of the fray with 3 P's tigainst the Kt, they are no equivalent, his position being so broken up. Hb doubled P is his ruin. (ri Correct logistics; for if, instead, 46 R x P, then 46 P-K 6; 47 P x P, P-Kt 7; 48 R-Kt 5, P-Kt 8 (Q): 49 R x Q, R x R and draws. [But R-Kt 2, threatening R-Kt 7 ch, Kt-K 7, and Kt-K 6 mate, seems stronger. (A.)] - G\ME No. 761. Queen's Gambit Declined. White, 1.. Weinbremvsr; Black, Baron Rothschild. 1 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 2 P-Q B 4 P-K 3 3P x P 1" x P 4 Kt-Q B 3 Kt-K B 3 5 B-B 4 B-Q Kt 5 6 Q-Kt 3 Kt-B 3 7 P-K 3 B-K B 4 8 B-Kt 5 Bx Kt 9 p x B Castles 10 B x Kt P x B 11 Kt-B 3 R-Kt sq 12 Q-R 4 B-Q 6 13 Qx B P B-Kt 7 14 Kt-Q 2 Kt-Kt 5 15 B-Kt 3 Q-K 2 16 Qx P Q-R 6 17 B-Q 6 Rx Kt 18 Bx Q R-K 7ch 19 K-Q sq Kt xB P cli 20 K-B sq R-B 7ch 21 K-Kt sq Rs B P dis ch 22 K-Kt 2......R x Q 23 B x R Kt x R 24 R x R K x B 25 Hefihms