CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 4

CHESS

[Conducted by D.H.H.]

Tile Ot.go CKb meets for play at the rooms, Allbell Buildings, S uarr street, even.’ Monday. Wednesday, and Saturday evening, at 7.30 o'clock. Visitors are cordially invited to attend, and by ringing up Bi-OAO arrangements could be made (or a game any atternoon and evening, as the rooms are open to both club members and visitors at any time TO CORRESPONDENTS. A.W.P. (Kclburn).—-Thanks for paper. F.K.K. (Wellington).—Much obliged for information supplied. J.A.C (Mornington).—Ec 2,136; If Q-Kt 2, K-B 8, then White must make a Kt move, and cannot mate in three. H.S.T.—Correct solution to 2,131 was E-B 5. W.J.S. (Balclutha). —You arc correct, but it does not matter. CORRECT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. 2,133: W.A.M. (Dunedin). 2,135: W.A.M. (Dunedin),'H.S.T. (Dunedin), J.S.M.L. (Dunedin). 2,136: W.A.M. (Dunedin), H.S.T. (Dunedin), J.S.M.L. (Dunedin). The solutions credited last week to 2,133 and 2,134- should have been 2,135 and 2,136 2,157: J.J. (Musselburgh), T.J.W, (St. Kilda), A.E.C. (Rosjyn), W.J.S. (Balclutha), J.S.M.L. (Dunedin), H.S.T. (Dunedin), J.A.C. (Mornington), W.A.M. (Dunedin) , , , 2,138: A.E. (Roslyn), W.J.S. (Balclutha), J.S.M.L. (Dunedin), J.A.C. (Mornington), W.A.M. (Dunedin).

SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS, 2,137: Kt-Kt 6. ,2,138; Kt-Q 6 ch.

PROBLEM 2,139. [By F. W. Wynne.] Black, 9 pieces.

White, 7 pieces. 8; 2Ktp4; 3Ktlßpl; 4k3; IKpJpB; lpPr4; 6bl; 4rlQl. White to play and mate in two moves.

PROBLEM 2,140. [By M. Havel] First Prize, L’ltalia Scicchistica, Black, 7 pieces.

White, 8 pieces, KMQI; pKt2Kt3; 8; 582: lktrk4; R6r; 384; 3b3kt. White to play and mate in three moves. GAME Played in a correspondence tournament conducted by the British Chess Club at Paris:— , . —Alekhine’s Defence,— White, J. C. Lucas; Black, A. W. Mongredieu, 1 P-K 4 Kt-K B 3 2 Kt-Q B 3 P-Q 4 3 P-K 5 K Kt-Q 2 4 P-Q 4 Compare Game No. 7,026, June. The text move transposes into tho French Defence. P-Q B 4 5 P-B 4 P x P 6Q x P Not good; 6 Kt-Kt 5. Kt-Q B 3; 7 Kt-K B 3 is much better, as tho Knight is well placed at Q 4. P-K 3 7 B-K 3 ft would be bettor to develop the King’s side first. Kt-Q B 3 8 Q-Q. 2 P-Q R, 3 8... K Kt x P; 9 P x Kt, P-Q 5; 10 Castles, P x B; 11 Q x P gives White rather a free game ju return for his weak King’s Pawn. 9 Kl-B 3 B-Kt 5 10 P-Q R 3P......Q-R 4 11 Kt-Q 4 Bx Kt 12 P x B Kt x Kt? 13 P x Kt Q-B 2 14 P-Q R 4 Presumably to prevent ...P-Q Kt 4, and so retain freedom to play P-B 4 later. Castles? 15 B-Q 3: Kt-Kt 3 16 P-B 4 The winner says of this move: “ A fine combination, sacrificing a Pawn for a seemingly irresistible attack.” ; Kt x P 17 Q-B 2 ; Q-R 4ch 18 K-B 2 Kt x B 19 K x Kt 19 B x P ch, K-R 1; 20 K x Kt, P-K Kt 3 is unlikely to turn out favourably for White. P-K Kt 3 20 .P-B 4 B-Q 2 21 P-R 5 Q B-B 1 22 Q-Kt 1! R-B 6 23 P x P It was advisable to release his Bishop by 23 K-K 2 before proceeding with tho attack B P x P! 24 K-K 2 R x P 25 Ex P. R-K Kt 6! A counter-stroke which destroys White’s attack, and leaves him with a lost game. 26 B x P ch K-Kt 2 27 R-K R 2 Q-B 6 28 B-Q 3...... R x B! 29 Q-Q B 1 If 29 Q x R, R-K 5 ch win? easily. R-Q 7 ch Resigns. If 30 Q x R, R-B 7 ch; 31 K x R, Q x Q ch; 32 K-B 1. Q-B 5 ch; 33 K-Kt 1, Q x Q P ch, and wins tho Q K. , —‘British Chess Magazine.

QUEEN’S GAMBIT. (From the Team Tourney, Folkestone.) White, Regedzinski (Poland); Black, Betbeder (France). 1 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 2 P-Q B 4 P-Q B 3 3 Kt-Q B 5...... Kt-B 3 4 Kt-B 3 P-K Kt 3 s 5 P-K 3 B-Kt 2 : 6 B-Q 3... ...8-Kt 5 7 P, x P B x Kt 8 P x B (a) Kt x P . 9 P-B 4 (b) Castles 10 Q-Kt 3 Kt s Kt 11 P s Kt Q-B 2 12 P-K R 4 P-Q B 4 13 K-Q Kt 1 (c) P-Kt 3 14 B-K 4 Kt-B 3 15 P-R 5. Kt-B 4 (d) 16 Q-R 4 (e) Q R-Q 1 17 R P i P......R P x P 18 B-Q 2 (f)......Q-Q 3 (g) 19 B-B 1 Q-K 3 20 P-Q 5 (h) B x P ch 21 K-B 1 R x P (i) 22 B x R Q x B 23 K-Kt 1 Q-Q 6 24 Q-Kt 5...... Kt-B 5 25 R-Kt 3 Q-Q 8 ch (j) 26K-R2(k) Q-B 8! • . 27 Q x Kt (1) Q x P (B 7 ch) 28 K-R 3 Q-B 6 ch 29 K-R 2 Q-B 7 ch (m) 30 K-R 3 Mit 2! 31 Q x B ch P-B 3 32 P-K 4 (n) R-K R 1 ch 33 K-Kt 4 R x R 34 B-Kt 2 (o) E-B 4 Mate (a) This keeps his Q free for operations on the Q side, and indicates a K side att4(bj To prevent P-K 4, which would be distinctly disturbing. . ■ _ „ , (c) A changed plan. I prefer P-B 5. (d) Black has gained valuable time, ana now drives the Q. off her best diagonal. (e) If Q-B 2, Q R-B 1; 17 R P x P, BP x P; 18 P-B 5, P x P: 19 Q-R 2, K E-Q 1, and I believe in Black’s position, (f) White- is in difficulties,. His attack has failed,r and a.-break-up is . threatened by Black. The text does not help matters. (g) Intending P-K 4, and if B x P, P-K B4BxBP, PsBK R-K 1. (h) Should the K B move, P x P wms -a P at least; or P-B 3, P-B 4, followed by F x P* (i) Evidently a good investment. The White K is forced into confinement to save the loss of a B. ' ~ (j) White’s helpless position allows Mr Betbeder to amuse himself (and us) with a neat winning combination. .. , (k) K-Kt 2, Q-Kt 5 ch; 27 K-B 1, R-Q 1(l) If B x B, the actually played process follows just the same. . (m) A repetition of moves prolongs the aS (°n) y Or R-Kt 2, Q-B 6 ch. mating in two more moves. , n , (o) Q-Kt 3, R-Kt. A good game— Observer.’ PITFALLS ON THE CHESS BOARD. With regard to Example No. 11 in out lost week’s column, an inquirer asks why could not White play instead of 9 Kt x Kt P P-R 4? and so avoid all trouble. 9... B-K Kt 5 appears good enough to retain for Black the advantage in position due to White’s premature pinning of the Knight at move 6. If 10 P x P. P-R 5; 11 B-R 21Kill 2; 12 Kt-Q 2, Kt x P; 13 Q-K or B 1, P-R 6 check. No. 13. A curious variation in the Pet reft Defence which leads to a win if P by Black is worth knowing. White eventually should win. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-K B 3 Kt-K B 3 3 Kt x P P-Q 3 4 Kt-K B 3 Kt x P 5 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 6 B-Q 3......8-Q 3 7 Castles Castles 8 P-Q B 4 B-K 3 9 Kt-Q B 3 Kt x Kt 10 P x Kt! P x P? 11 B x P ch K x B 12 Kt-Kt 5 ch K-Kl 1 13 Q-B 2! P-Kt 3 14 Kt x B! P x Kt 15 Q s P ch Kt-R 1 16 B-Kt 5 B-K 2 17 Q-R 6 ch......K-Kt 1 * 18 Q x P ch R-B 2 19 B x 8...... Q x B 20 Q-B 8 ch and obtains « pawn? for the piece. If 13... R-Kt, then 14 Q-R 7 ch, K-B 1; 15 Tt-Kfc 1 O-B 3: 16 P-Q 5, Kt-B 3; 17 P-K 7 X cli R x P; 18 Kt-K 6 ch, followed by B x winning. LORD BLEDISLOE’S TROPHY. There is no doubt that His Excellency Lord Bledisloe’a handsome v/.ii on iu'>; not only to popularise chess, but also will help to stiffen up the weaker centres. There is bound to be differences of opuiion regarding the two suggestions put forth by the New Zealand Chess Association. After carefully considering the matter, the wiiter is strongly of the opinion that it should bo given to the highest scorer m the annual championship provided it never leave* the dominion. In fact it could bo awarded to the highest New Zealand player s score, whilst the silver took would be awarded os it is at present. The _ objection to giving it for the club championships is that theplayers in the smaller centres barred from competing for it, and the f major clubs would practically hove the monopoly of tbo trophy. To go a step tuither there is no doubt, judging from the results of the club telegraph matches fo, the last thirty years, that the. °dds in favour of Wellington winning it eight times out of ton are very high. Of the eighteen matches played to date between the Wellington and. Auckland Clubs, Wellington has won thirteen, Auckland four, there was one tie. Since 1893 Otago and Wellington have played nineteen matches, of which Wellington won fifteen, and there wae one draw.. We have not the figures for the Canterbury-Wellingtou matches but it the results since 1923 of the Otago-Canter-bury matches (Otago 7; C&nterbury 1) are any criterion, Wellington must have defeated Canterbury by as many game*, it not more, than it did the extreme north and south clubs. When these facts are taken into consideration there appears to he a strong, argument against allotting the Bledisloe Trophy to club telegraph matches. Also, a fairly substantial amount which

has been subscribed by the four clubs principally concerned is now in the hands of the New Zealand Chess Association in the nucleus of a fund to purchase a trophy for these matches. The trophy has been given to encourage the game in the dominion, and in order that this can be done the smaller clubs should be They, would never have a chance of winning the interclub championship, whereas it is quit© possible, and reasonable to suppose, that some of these players might win the dominion championship. Since the above was written the writer has read the arguments set up at the New Zealand' Chess Association’s meeting in favour of awarding the trophy for the club championship. They are, briefly, that the congress winners are already we!l_ looked after, as they receive a montary prize, and have their names engraved on tho champion rook. There is about £4O held by the as. sociation for the purchase of a suitable trophy for the club championship, _ and if the Bledisloe Cup was awarded to this event the money could be returned to the four major clubs, who subscribed it, and are at the present time in need of funds. Finally, there is nothing to prevent a small club winning it provided there are only twelve boards. Space will not permit of com* batting these arguments, but it can safely be said that the twelve leading players in the metropolitan clubs could always beat any other centre. Several other suggestions have been mado locallv in regard to the disposition of the trophy. One worthy of consideration is, as has been previously mooted, that th? congress lie divided in two sections, fho senior one to stop ns it is, with the ohompion rook, and the Bledisloe Cup to too Junior section, and thereby encourage the younger generation ,of chess, players, r Oiir "Wellington ; correspobdenl’s strong > point in favour, of awarding this trophy foe the club championship of the dominion is that it should rank with tho Plunkct an'l Ranfurly Shields, and become the highest honour any club can win. N.Z. CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. A telegram has been received from Wei. lington that the Auckland Adjudication Board has given a win to Dunedin on Board 3, and declared draws on the other three reserved games, Thie makes a draw, tho scores being 10 all, but, as the scores on the first sixteen boards are 9-7 in favour of Wellington, that club js awarded the championship of the dominion, wresting it- from fast year’s winner, the Otago Chess Club, Attached are the scores: —

■ 10 10 NOTES. An apology is due to Mr L. D. Coombs, who'has not lost any games in the Otago Chess Club’s senior championship tourney. A close finish may be footed for in the Wellington B grade competition, the posttioii of the various teams, with only two rounds to go, being as follows.—Karori, Si wins, li losses; Miramar, si-li; Wades, town, 5-2; Wellington C.C. No. 1, 5-2; Brooklyn F.8.C., 4-3 j Hutfc Valley, 34*3i; W.M. Club, 2Hi; Ngaio, 2-5; Victoria Collego. li'Sij Wellington No, 2, i-Sj. If there should be a tie for first place at the conclusion of the ninth round through two or more clubs scoring the same number of match points, tho shield will go to the team that has won the most games.—Wei. lington ‘ Post.’ Through its promotion to senior status, the Hutfc Valley Chess Club has been able to inaugurate an annual fixture with-the chess players of Wellington Working Men’s Club and Literary Institute. The first of these matches was played afc the rooms of the Working ■ Men’s Club, when the home team was defeated by two games.—Wei. lington ' Post.’ “ Persons having a Jewish grandparent, unless they neutralise this disability by the possession of the Iron Cross or some other token of war service, will be ineligible for membership of chess clubs in Germany, the new chess leader announcing that the famous ’ Aryan paragraph ’ (which ordered the dismissal of Jews over a proportion of about 1 per cent, of the whole from the Pub. lie Services) would also be applied to chess, as it had been applied to tennis, organised rabbit ’ breeding, and tho like. The chess leader, Herr Zander, announced that men of National-Socialist views roust be appointed leaders of the’ local chess clubs and associations; which were ordered to notify th* names of their several leaders by August 1. The proceedings : ended with the despatch of a telegram to the Minister of Props* ganda assuring biro that ‘ German chesa VSchachtuin), united in the All-German Chess League, sends its patron reverent greetings, end vows its co-operation ro the creation of the Grman national community London ‘Times Weekly Edition. A year ago, on September 1, Mr Duncan Purchas, a highly-esteemed member cf the Wellington Chess Club, and also of the Wei. lington South Chess Club. died. _ Shortly, after his .death a Purchas Memorial. match was played between these clubs, cx-mem. bers, being invited to take part. Fifty players attended tills very successful contest, which the Wellington Club won by tnron games (14-11) .—Wellington ‘Post.’

OTAGO. WELLINGTON. 1 J. B. Dunlop ... 1 G. P. Anderson (captain) ... 0 2 D. Pihl ... — 4 A, W. Gyles ... JL 2 3 0. Balk ... ... 0 F. K. Helling ... 1 .4 E. Watt (captain) 1 G. Wigbam 0 5 L. D. Coombs ... 4 H. Godtschalk 4 6 A. Ellis 0 W. C. White ... 1 7 J. H. F. Hamel 0 A. T. Craven ... 1 8 R. S. M'Dermid 0 J. C. M'Crea ... 1 9 G. D. Wright ... W J. Fairbairn 4 10 A. M'Dcrmott i R. C. Sim ... 0 11 J. Crow 4 J. Otto 4 12 L. W. Jeans ... 0 A. E. Jessup ... i 13 C. M. Ellis ... 0 J. T. Hardy ... l 14 W H. Allen ... i H. E. Ashby ... 15 A. Ward 1 R. Godtschalk 0 16 W. ■Lang i R. G. Didsbury Jr 17 Dr Barnett 1* E. J. Dyer d 18 W. Herbert ... 4 F. Grady i 19 Dr Herrington i C. A, M‘ColI ... .0 20 J. S. M. Lawson 4 Dr Myers 4