CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 19352, 11 September 1926, Page 19

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[Contributed by LJXQ.] Th« Otago Chtu Clui meet* lor ptay ■» ft* rooms. 193 Princei street, everj Monday, Woone* day, and Saturday evening, at 7JW a'chxk. TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ F.ILK." (Wellington).—Many thanks for news. “ O.B."—Many thanks for paper. “TJ.” and F.M.”—Many thanks for letter. Your key move is correct, although a number of solvers have sent Q-Q 8, which, as you remark, can be defeated by Kt-Q 84. Your key move, Kt-Q Kt to Problem 1,360 is a good “ try/' bat can’be defeated by Q-K 6. Correct solutions to Problem No. 1,360 have been received from “0.8.," ** L.D.C.,” " G.D.W.,” “ J.JJL,” “ J.H.F.H.,” “F.W.C.,” ** G. 8.,” “ T.P.W.,” “W. 8.,” “ 5.5. M.,” "T.C.,” “Check.” Nearly all solvers have made complimentary reference to this problcm(We Invito commnnination) on all maMert coo earning chess. Solutions of problems, games, and ■nairses will receive our attention, and II ol sufficient merit will be inserted. All commnnicalions to be addressed “ Chen Editor," ‘ Evening SOLUTION TO PROBLEM No. R3CO. Kt-K 5. PROBLEM No. 1,361. By the late Sam Lloyd. Black, 5 pieces.

White, 5 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. A difficult problem. The key move should give our solvers some trouble. Position.—B; 8; 8; 3p4; 3R4; KlpS; lpKt4R; lkb4Q. OTAGO v. CANTERBURY. The second evening’s play in the telegraphic match between the above clubs will take place in the Otago Chess Club s rooms on Saturday evening, September 11, at 6.30, So far good progress has been made, and if this is maintained on the next evcing’s play there should bo very few games left for decision either by the captains or Adjudication Board. THE BUY LOPEZ. “ This opening comes nearer than any other to conferring a winning advantage with the move. Its pre-eminence for match play, tlierofore, is by no means surprising.” We give below a few short games (by request) illustrating traps in this opening. The first moves in each case are as follow: — 1 P-K 4... P-K 4; 2 Kt-K B 3... Kt-Q B 3; 3 B-Kt 5. White’s third move is the Spanish priest’s favorite attack. —No. 1 (Tarvasch’s Trap).— 3 P-Q R 3 4 B-R 4 Kt-B 3 5 Castlea Kt x P 6 P-Q 4 .P-Q Kt 4 7 B-Kt 3 P-Q 4 8 P x P B-K 5 9 P-B 3 B-K 2 10 K-B 1 Castles 11 Kt-Q 4 Q-Q 2? (a) 12 Kt x B Px Kt (b) (a) Q-K 1 is requisite! (b) If 12 ..., Q or P x Kt; 13 E x Kt whining a piece. -No. 2. 3 Kt-K Kt 2? 4 P-B 3 P-Q B 3 (a) 5 B-R 4 P-Q Kt 4 6 B-Kt 3 P-Q 4 7 Q-K 2 Px P BQx K P B-B 4 (b) 9 Kt i P (c) (a) Kt-Kt 3 is necessary. (b) Kt-Kt 5! (c) If Black takes the Queen bo is mated. —No. 3. 3 Kt-B 3 4 P-Q 3 Kt-K 2 5 Kt x P? P-B 3 6 B-B 4 Q.-B 4 ch, etc. (a) (a) Wliite may set a counter trap by 6... Kt-B 4 (threatening, if B is taken, mate at Q 6), but Black parries this by 6... Kt 3; 7 B-R 4... P-Q Kt 4, winning a piece. —No. 4. 3 P-Q B 3 4 B-R 4 P-Q 3 5 P-Q 4 B-Q 2 6 Kt-B 3 P i P 7 Kt s P P-Q Kt 4 8 B-Kt 3? (a) Kt xKt 9Qx Kt P-Q B 4 10 Queen’s moves. P-B 5 (wins Bishop). (a) Kt z Kt is necessary. —No. 5. — 3 P-Q R 3 4 B-R 4 Kt-B 3 5 Castles Kt s P 6 P-Q 4 P-Q Kt 4 x 7 B-Kt 3 B-0 4 8 P x P Kt-K 2 9 R-K 1 P-Q B 3? (a) 10 R x Kt P x R 11 B x P ch wins the Queen (a) Kt-Q B 4 is necessary. —No. 6. 3 P-Q R 3 4 B-B 4 Kt-B 3 5 Q-K 2 B-B 4 6 P-B 3 P-Q Kt 4 7 B-B 2 P-Q 4? (a) 8 P x P Q. x P 9 P-Q 4 BQ 3? (b) 10 B-Kt. 3. Q-K 5 11 Qx Q Kt x Q 12 B-Q 5 winning a piece (a) P-Q 3 should bo played. (b) B-Kt 3 is the correct move. —No. 7. 3 Kt-B 3 4 Castles Kt x P 5 P-Q 4 P-Q R 3 6 B-Q 3 P-Q 4 7 P-B 4 B-K Kt 5 (a) fa) If 7 ..-K P x P, bo loses a piece by 8 P x P...Q i P; 9 B x Kt. The Queen dare not take Bishop on account of E-K 1. WELLINGTON CLUB. —Annual Championship.— The Wellington Chess Club's annual championship tourney is rapidly approaching completion, only two more rounds and a few outstanding games having to be accounted for. A very close finish may be looked for, the position of the leaders being now as follow*: — _ Won. Lost, To Play.

Gyles has still to play Messrs Mason, Barnes, and Anderson, and the g a “ es Barnes v. Mason, Barnes v. Taylor, Taylor r Anderson, and Mason v. Anderson arc included in those, that hare to bo fought out. It is, therefore, very hard to say at this st&gti "whoso chances most fancied. SOLUTION TO CHESS PUZZLE. Arrange fourteen knights on the board, so as to command every square of the board ■with a knight. ■ . This may be done in various ways. Hero is one method: Place them at Q B 7, Q 7, K 7. K B 7, Q N 5, Q. B 5, K B 5, K N 5, Q N 3, Q B 3, Q 3, K 3, K B 3, K N 3. PUBLICITY. It is a most peculiar thing that chess players are, as a rule, very reticent on the subject of their favorite pastime. They will discuss politics, the liigh cost of living, latest cricket scores, spoiling results, etc., with “ the man in the street,” but when it comes to the game of games, they have nothing to say! How often does one chess player Kve next door to another enthusiast for quite a long time before becoming aware of his neighbor's aspirations in that direction? There is no necessity to this state..itflsaia. bkA J&» oaassar

that chess enthusiasts realise it the better it will be for the game. Why bo ashamed of being a chess player? Certainly it is not as spectacular as football _ or cricket, but it is every bit as interesting, and perhaps more instructive. Let us then talk “ chess ” whenever wo get the opportunity I Ask the “ follow nest door ” if ha knows anything about the game. Get him interested, and invito him to the clubl Then, perhaps, your fellow passenger on train or tram may prove to be an enthusiast. Casually mention it next time you meet. A discussion on the merits or demerits of Gapablanca, Alechine, Boguljubow, Lasker, and Retd, and, oomingnearcr home, Crackanthorp, Woinarski, Watson, Vincr, Gnndersen, Barnes, Dunlop, Gyles, etc,, should prove just os entertaining (and perhaps more so) as other everyday topics. Publicity is all the game requires, and chess players, by judicious propaganda, can soon bring the game into public favor. SNOWBALL CHESS. Snowball Chess is the title given to an amusing version of correspondence chess first introduced nearly fitly years ago, in which games are played between large dubs or associations in various cities or States, every move being made by a different player, which process, with its cumulative effect, accounts for the title. The first occasion on which this novelty was tried, the “ Snowball ” rolled for the best part of a year to some purpose, ending an adventurous and somewhat exciting career in Scotland, where a player was constrained to resign a game in which be bad taken no previous part. A New Zealand “ Snowball ” would prove interesting, or failing this, a modified one played between the members of one of the chess clubs would be entertaining. This need not be played by correspondence, and could 'be completed in the one evening, each member making a move. The resultant game, oa an illustration of the combined intdlect of the dub, could he published in this column. The idea is worth considering. A STETNITZ STORY. Stcinitz (from whom Lasker wrested the championship of the world in 1894, after he had held it for twenty-eight years) was seated one day in Simpson's Divan, in London, waiting for some amateur to come along at the customary shilling a game. One came, and Stcinitz easily won four or five games. The stranger intimated that he had had enough, and ventured to inquire how it was that he (Stcinitz) had won every game? Stcinitz, pocketing the shillings, replied: “ Veil,. yon played very curious; I obsaarve you did not move your Knights at all —not vuncc in any game!” And the young man from the country replied: “Well, no. The fact is, I don’t quite understand the Knight’s move yet.” FORGET NOT THE CHESS BEGINNER. “ Perhaps the greatest danger that threatens chess to-day, both on the game and problem sides, is the tendency for big ehc<s enthusiasts, old in practice and impatient of elementary matters, to forget the beginner who desires to enter our gates. _ Wo are too apt to surround ourselves with a wall that is too high for youngsters _io climb. Problems that do not show a high grade of difficulty for experts arc condemned for shallowness. Experts forget that what is easy for them may bn difficult for newcomers.” —A chess editor, seven years ago. FERRAND, COUNT OF FLANDERS. Having been accustomed to amuse himself at chess with bis wife;, and being constantly beaten by her, a mutual hatred took place, which came to such a height that, when the count was taken prisoner at Bovines, she suffered him to remain _ a long time in prison, though she could easily have procured his release..

Gyles, A. W 5 1 3 Mason, W. E3 1 0 Taylor, E. S 1-jr 3 A Barnes, R. J 3i 1 4 Kolling, F. K V 2 3 Anderson, G. P. 3£ 24 3 Fouhy, T 34 2