CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 18919, 18 April 1925, Page 18

CHESS

[Contributed by Gambit.] The Otago Chess Club meets f° r P a * the. rooms, Princes street, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening, at /.3U o’clock. TO C 01! RESPOND ENTS. " F.K.K.” (Wellington).—Glad lo hear that the 6hi-i.slclni.reh Chess Club is referring to the X.Z.C.A. the matter of stricter_ supervising of telegraphic matches. .It is 'yell known that most, of the umpires any aliotether too easy with the players. . ° E. A. be" Petit” (Invercargill).—Your problem, 1,285, is a good one., but inadvertently a pawn was omitied trom Q K A* " W.G.('!•’’ !Kavensiiouriie). —If there was a prize for problem solving, it looks ns if YOU would have a first chance Try U 285 a- f Vr adding a pawn cm Q \< o. C " w.si." (.St. Kil(la).-- Your idea for handicapping is quilo a. good one. Suggest, that you bring if betore the local club at its annual meidmg on Monday next. [Wo invito communications on nil matters concmmiire chess. Solutions of problems, games, and analyses will receive our attention, and if of sufficient merit will he inserted. All communications to be addressee. "Chess Editor,” ‘Evening Star.’] SOLUTION TO PROBLEM No. 1,286; 1 Q-l> 8. PROBLEM No. 1,287. Bv J. d. I’ictveld. Black,

" While. Male in two. 1 8- I\2QpqKl 1; 8; R 7; KlblrklP; 2Kt5; oktil’lU i L 3. pI.AVr,;) AT ML!.-ON’. Another game from the last New Zealand chess championship, held at Nelson during the ChrLtmas vacation: I-Tcnch Defence.— White, .iv. if. Feverne (Nelson); Black, C. J. Jj, Purdy- (.Sydney, N.Js.’A’.). 1 P-K 4 P-K 3 (a) 2 P-Q 4 P-M 4 5 Kt-Q B 3 Ki-K B 3 4 li-K Kt 5 B-Kt 5 I, P-K, 5 P-K R 3 6 B-U 2 B x Kt 7BxB llp Kt-K 5 8 ICQ o Kt x H H I’ x Kt P D B 4 hi P-K H 1 VU 4 11 (,).(,) 2 P-l! 5 12 B K 2 B-Q 2 lit Kt-B 3 oo Kelt 3 id) U Castle. -K H; Kt-B 2 ]f, K R-Kt, lln D-R 6! (f) hi B-B 1 ig; Kt-Kt 4 17 i; K <1 X I’ 18 p-y ;; I y ?. y And won later ih). Notes hy -Mr J’urdy. fa) p!aveil to avoid iho four knights, Mr Sevorne's favorite opening. , i, ; I In,- ij -ual move, P x B, is better. i,o Tins is 100 much hy routine, lu view o L j thickV, threats, B to" B 3 and Kt-K 2 is con cel - l'd) Cnliko White, Black avoids tho “ obvious” move, and plays to a definite plan. (e| A strategical mistake. White) is bound to a.uack i'ii the K side. (1, A winner. 10... Kt-Kt 4is met by lii ‘P-y K 4. ,gi if 16 K- x P, Kt-Kt 4 and Q to R 3. If 16 l,i-B 1. Q x P; 17 11 x P, Kt-Kt, 4 and wins. *Whil-c can do nothiug at all. (ill Tlie rest, is only " wood shifting.” Not-'.- 'Tins is at. variance with Mr H. ,1. 1! ano os, diet mu that "you can always | l"Im gale- is ml a. good example of Mr U-venieT i'Liv. All chc.-s players, however, j iilh.S Foil BKiMNXKRS. Tli,. ]:ta11ii given la-t week occurred in a ' iur he I ween' Wolf and Spiehaa nn. White wins as follows.: 1 P-K, 3 y X P 2 (,1 V P K, X y 3 iCB 8 cli B x R ■i K-K 8 oh K B 6 R x R ma to Tin's week's problem position is 4r3; .3klppl; 2p6pl; SPIT; 2KSKrP; 8; P 7; 8. While, to play. Wit at roll It, and how 8 ALIvKIUXLS DKFKXCK. N..tiling is moi'; indicative of the icono-ii-onceptions of tlie “ liypennodcrn ” Si'lioo! (han the bizarre defen.-is introduced in- Alekhine, at the, Budapest tournament ol PUL Although opposed to ail the tenets of tlie classical i-ehool, Black, allows his k.iue .-, knight to be. <iriv<-u about the board in the early stages of tin- game, in tho cx-pi-etaiicu of provoking' a -.veakness in Whites relll ro. pawns. Tart.-vkover aptly remarks that. Wiiilo has his initiative to defend; and the eorrei-lne.'S ot Black’s plan is evidenced In- the successful adoption of Alekhine's dei.":ee. In- sncli sound judges of positron as (• runi••!•!, J-.m. ]. aster, and Tarra-ch. AT.KKII INT-VS Bi;COF.BBT)K, IN’ RUSSIA.. r riu-. Russian. master, J.ewin, is now residing at Zcinuu, and, though not itr regular praeii'-e, was ahh> to hold his own with lC.siir.li before tho hitler's departure to A iv. i r.iiia and New Zealand in a, series of l/i.. e eaioe.-, rcoring one. win and two draws. WORLD'S LX-CUAMITOX. STILL IX COl ID FORM, iin s-plemnrr IP, Dr Fuiamml Lasker arrived in. Belgrade in order ro give, a f-w i-'diiiio ions in the eouni.iy. On the, following dav ho coidc.'lcd a. game each against, y|,U. Ov.-idia. and Vdcndrileh, winning both, 'i’le reafi-'i- Ids record in simultaneous play war. ;-■ September 21, at Belgrade, 36 gamco, 3-1 won, 2 drawn; September 22, at Subo--35 gaiiies, 30 won, 2 drawn, 1 lost.; S'pirml.vr 23, at Somlau-, 29 games, 29 won; S< ;>:< mher 25. at Zagreb. 35 games, 28 won, 7 drawn; September 26, at Zagreb, 9 games, 5 won, 3 drawn, 1 lost. In the second exhibition at Zagreb his opponents were specialty seka'lcd fitrong players.