CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 20374, 4 January 1930, Page 5

CHESS

[Conducted by L.D.G.] The Otago Club meets for play at the rooms, Hannah’s Buildings, 24 George every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evening, at 7,30 o’clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondence will be acknowledged in next wek’s column. [We invite communications on all matter* concerning chess Solutions of problems, games, and analyses will receive our attention, and U of sufficient merit will be inserted. All communica- , tions to be addressed ** Chess Editor,’* * Evening Star.*] SOLUTION. TO PROBLEM No. 1,780. By William Meredith. 1. Kt-Q 7 K-Q 6 2 Kt.-Q B 5. PROBLEM No. 1,787.' By A. Sohiffman, Brisbane ‘ Courier ’ Tourney. Black, 9 pieces.

' White, 11 pieces. White to play and male in two moves. A great problem. Its amazing intricacies and technical perfection are rendered additionally attractive by the novelty and difficulty ot the idea. The Nowotny interference combined with a double Gnmshaw interference. Truly an ambitious and brilliantly successful task. END GAME. Black,, 8 pieces.

White, pieces. White to play and win. This end game has been sent by Herr Erich Weber, of Pranfurt, Germany, who has inquired the author's name from many connoisseurs, but in vain. The end game is a? near an approach to real humoui on the chess board as we have seen. Black can apparently stalemate .by K-R 5, P-Kt 4-Kt 5, P-Kt 4, P-R 4! The following game i an example of how .a , great master, of end-game play can sometimes squeeze a win out of a stone:—

RUY LOPEZ. White, H. Mattison; Black, A. Rubinstein. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-K 8...... Kt-Q B 3 3 B-Kt 5 P-Q R 3 4Bx Kt (a) QP x B 5 P-Q 4 .P x P 6Q x P Qx Q 7Kt s Q B-Q 3 (b) 8 B-K 3 P-Q B 4 9 Kt-K 2 P-K B 3 10 B-B 4 B-K 3 11 B x B P x B (c) 12 Kt-B 4 B-B 2 13 Kt-B 3 Kt-K 2 14 Castles (Q R) Castles (Q R) 15 Q Kt-Q 5 K R-K 1 16 P-B 3 Kt i Kt 17 Kt x Kt B x Kt 18 K x B R-K 4 19 K R-Q 1 Rx R 20 Rs R K-Q 2 21 P-Q B 4 (d) P-K Kt 3 22 K-B 2 K-K 3 23 K-B 3 P-K B 4 (e) 21 P * P eh P x P 25 R-Q 2 if) P-Kt 4 26 P-Q Kt 3.. P-K R 4 <g) 27 P-Kt 3 P-B 51 28 B-K 2 ch K-B 4 29 R-K 4 P x P 30 P x P R-K Kt 1 31 R-B 4 ch P (h) K-K 3 32 R-K 4 ch K-Q 2 33 P-Kt 4 R-K B 1 34 R-K 3 P-R 5 35 P-Q R 4 (i) Px R P 36 P x P R-K 11 37 K-Q 2 Rx B 38 K x R P-Q 4 39 Resigns (j) (a) The exchange variation. Less rich in possibilities than B-R 4, but Lasker has notched some good wins with it. White can get a passed P on the K side, while Black cannot get one on the Q side. Black, towever, has .two bishops, and is now thought to have equal chances, (b) Purposely avoiding the good but familiar line of Steinitz, B-Q 2 and Castles (Q R), followed by an advance of the Q side P’s, witn which he beat Lasker in one of their world championship games. (c) Black has a backward P, which a Lasker might possibly be able to turn into a win for White. (d) The interesting part begins. This was bad. There is no need yet to prevent the Q P advancing, and the move allows Black to open the Q Kt file for his B. The logical play was to fix Black’s K side P’s by P-K R‘4 (h) Black wants to play Kt-B 4. (i) Getting a useless open file on the castled K. no nearly worth the weakness made by the backward P. (i) White threatened P-Q 4. (k) Advancing on the side on which he castled! But the only way to win. (l) Whitt threateied a counter demonstration by P-B 4 (m) Both king moves were preparatory. White wanted to move freely without having to fear a cheek by which Black might gain a move later, and Black smilarly prevents Q-Kt 6. They also develop the K's against an exchange of Q’s. (n) Marshal' with surprisingly bad judgment, is at an exchange of Q’s, and .his move which opens a line for the Black it ii tiiu onsuin end game, is preparatory to it It was here that the game was lost. (o) Relieve the R from its menial task f stopping P-Q 4. (p) Unpinning the B P to force a passed P by P-Ki. 5

(o' If P i P. B s P wins at once. (r) If P-Kt 7 cb ?; Kt s P, R x Ktj ■f-B 6! (s) Ex Kt uiis threatened.