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Evening Star, Issue 22721, 7 August 1937, Page 6

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[Conducted by D.H.H.] The Otago Club meets for pUy »t the roams, Capitol Buildings, Princes street, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at 7.50 o'clock. Visitors are cordially invited to attend, and by ringing up 22-616 arrangements may be made for a game any afternoon or evening as the rooms are open to both club members and visitors at any time. TO CORRESPONDENTS. (We invite communications on all matters aoncerning chess. Solutions of problems, games, and analysis will receive oui attention, and if at sufficient merit will be inserted. All communica. tions to be addiessed " Chess Editor,” ‘ Evening Star,'] F.K.K. (Wellington).—Obliged for news, etc. A.W.P. (Kelburn). —Thanks for cuttings. L.S. and H.J.C. (Wellington).—<Thanks for greetings. A. 0.0. (Christchurch). —Thanks for record of matches played between Canterbury and Otago. J.B.D. (Roslyn).—Thanks for game; will publish next week. CORRECT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. 2,541: A.B. (Roslyn), J.J.M. (Musselburgh), J.E.D. (Dunedin), E.M‘D. (Roslyn), A.J.M’D. (Mornington), J.A.C. (Mornington), W.A.M. (Dunedin), E.A.L. (Invercargill). 2,542: A.E. (Roslyn), J.A.C. (Mornington), A.J.M'D. (Mornington), W.A.M. (Dunedin), R.M‘D. (Roslyn), E.A.L. (Invercargill). SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. 2,541: B-B 1. 2,542: P-B 4. If 1...K-Kfc 5; 2 Q-B 3 oh, etc. , If 1... K-Q 5: 2 P-B 7, etc. If 1...8 x P; 2 Q-K 3 ch, etc. If I...others; 2 Q-Kt 5 ch, etc. PROBLEM 2,543.. (By Dr G. Dobbs, Carrolton, Ga.) Black, 8 pieces.

White, 6 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. Biß|3q2Rl|3plplp|sßlk 2Q4bf1p283 | I K 2 Kt 1 r 1 PROBLEM 2,544. (By J. Kohtz and 0. Koekelkorn.) Black, 9 pieces.

White, 7 pieces. Mate in three moves. lßlß3kt|pKtk3bK( 7jp I 3Plp 211 P6JBJI Q4r 1( 1 kt 1B 4. S. R. BURNS TROPHY. With these two problems the fifth series for the S. R. Burns Challenge Cup for the ‘Evening Star’ Problem-solving Competition will he commenced. The rules will be as heretofore, and the will extend for six months, the ones that Will be set in the Christmas and New Year holidays being omitted. Our. thanks are due to the solvere who have previously so loyally supported us, and we hope again to have their support, and also . that a number of problem-solvers will join their ranks. *

BUY LOPEZ. White, Sir George Thomas; Black, P. Keres. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-K B 3 Kt-Q B 3 3 B-Kt 5 P-Q R 3 4 B-E 4 Kt-B 3 5 Kt-B 3 (a) P-Q Kt 4 6 B-Kt 3 P-Q 3 (b) 7 Kt-Kt 5 P-Q 4! BKtx Q P Kt-Q R 4 9 Kt-K 3 (o) Kt x B 10 R P x Kt P-R 3 11 Kt-B 3 Kt x P 12 Kt x P (d).;,...Q-B 3 13 Kt-B 3 B-Kt 2 14 Q-K 2 Castles 15 Castles B-Q 3 16 Kt-Kt 4 (e) Q-B 4 17 P-Q 3 Kt-Kt 4 18 Kt-R 4 Q-Q 4 •19 P-Q B 4 Kt-R 6ch (f) 20 K-R 1 Q-R 4 21 P-B 5 (g) K R-K 1 22 Q-B 2 QxKt(R 4) 23 P x B B x P ch! 24 K x B Q x Kt ch 25 K-R 1 Q-B 6 Mate (a) Tarrasch, “very good”; Nimr.owitsch, “ colourless.” (b) B-K 2 is usual; the text appears to bo a deliberate temptation of White, with a prepared variation against Kt-Kt 5 (c) The cautious way. which yields Black an attack well worth a P. Of course, 9 Kt x B P fails by K x Kt, 10 Kt x P ch Kt x B, 11 Kt x R Kt x R; but 9 Kt i Kt ch Q x Kt (P x Kt, 10 Kt x B P!), 10 P-Q 4, attracts me for White. (d) Giving Keres a . tempo _ for the attack; otherwise, however, Sir George would have no material to set against Black’s superiority in a coming end game. (e) Presumably to drive the Q to B 4, so that Kt-R 4 would also attack her. (f) This resource nullifies Sir George Thomas’s projected line (as X suppose) Q-B 3, 20 P-Q 4. for P-Q 5. (g) The Kt on R 4 cannot be held. —‘ Observer.* RETI’S OPENING. White, P. Schmidt; Black, J. Turn.' 1 P-Q B 4 P-Q B 3 2 Kt-K B 3 P-Q 4 3 P-Q Kt 3 B-Kt 5 4 P-Kt 3 Q-B 1 5 B-K Kt 2 B-R 6 j 6 Castles B x B 7K x B .Kt-Q 2 BPxP P x P 9 B-Kt 2 K Kt-B 3 10 Kt-B 3 Q-Q 1 11 R-B 1 R-Q B 1 12 Kt- QKt 5 P-Q R 3 13 B x R Q x R 14 Q-B 1 Q-Kt 1 15 Kt-B 7ch K-Q 1 16 Kt-K 5 Kt x Kt 17 Bx Kt K-Q 2 18 Kt xQ P Qx B 19 Kt-Kt 6 ch K-K 3 20 Q-B Boh Resigns (a) (a) If l-.Kt-Q 2; 21 Q x Kt ch, K-B 3; 22 Q-Kt 4, and mate follows or he loses the Q. Q.G. DECLINED. In the subjoined the champion of the world outplayed the British cjiampion at Nottingham, 1936. White. Euwe; Black, Winter. 1 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 2 P-Q B 4..... Y-Q B 3 3 Kt-K B 3 Kt-B 3 4 Kt-B 3 P-K 3 5 P-K 3. Q Kt-Q 2 6 B-Q 3 B-K 2 7 Castles Castles 8 P-Q Kt 3 P-Q Kt 3 9 B-Kt 2 B Kt 2 10 Q-Kt 2 .P-B 4 11 Q R-Q 1 Kt-K 5 12 QP x P Kt xKt 13 B x Kt Kt P x P 14 P x P P x P ' 15 B-R 6......8-Q B 3 16 B-Kt 5 B-Kt 2 17 P-K 4......8-K B 3 (a) , 18 Bx B (b). Kt i B 19 P x P....;.Kt,x P 20 Q-K 5 Q-R 4 21 B-B 4 Kt-B 3 22 Kt-K 5 Q R-K 1 23 Q-B 4 P-K R 3 24 Kt x P B-R. 3 (c) ,25 Kt-Q 6ch Resigns: 1 (a) Why not 17... Kt-Kt 3? (b) The world champion suggested 18 P-K 4, B-K 2; 19 P-K 6 winning at least the exchange. (o) If 24... R x Kt; 25 R-Q 7. THE BLEDISLOE CUP. The final telegraphic match between Otago and Wellington Chess Clubs for the 193 T club championship was concluded last Saturday evening, and resulted in a win for the local club by Hi matches to Bjj. The detailed results were as follow: — OTAGO. WELLINGTON. 1. J. B. Dunlop 1 G. P. Anderson 0 2. R. M'Dermid 0 A. W. Gyles ... 1 3. W. Lang ... i B. H. Seveme ... i 4. R. Watt ... 0 W. B. Mason ... 1 5. Dr E. B. Bennett ... 1 G. Wigham ... 0 6. B. E. Williamson ... 0 J. C. M’Crae ... 1 7. L. D. Coombs 1 A. T. Craven ... 0 8. O. Balk ... 0 E. K. Kelling ... 1 9. G. H. Seddon 1 W. J. Fairburn 0 10. A. J. M'Dermott A J. Morton i 11. D. Langley 4 J. L. Hardy ... i 12. A. H. Fraer 0 J. Otto 1 13. F. B. H. Neville ... i R. 0. Sim i 14. G. D. Wright 1 D. Wild 0 15. B. F. Evans 0 A. B. Jessup ... 1 16. J. Lang ... 1 J. K. L. Webling 0 17. Dr G. Barnett i R. C. Glass ... i 18. A. B. Ward I W. J. Emery ... 0 19. W, H. Allen 1 H. P. Yanel ... 0 Hi 81 TELEGRAPHIC CLUB MATCHES. The following is the record of chess matches played to date between Canterbury and Otago:— Year.' Winner. Scores. 1885— Canterbury ... ... ... 5-4 1886— Canterbury 7£ - 2[ 1913—Otago ... 8-4 1916 Otago ... 8-4 1917 Canterbury ... ... ... 74 - 1918— Otago ... 7i -6* 1919 Otago 8-6 1920 Otago 104 - Si 1921 — Otago 10-6 1922 Otago 91 - 61 1923 Otago 10{ - 71 1924 Tie 8-8 1925 Otago 10i - 61 xl926—Otago 11-7 1927—Otago 12-7 . 1928—Otago Hi - 81 1929 Canterbury ... 9-7 1930 Tie 10 - 10 1932—Otago Hi- 81 1935 Otago 101 - 91 1934—Otago ... 12i - U xxl93s—Tic 10 - 10 1936 Canterbury ... ... ... Hi - 81 1937 Otago 13 - 7 x Scores at boards 2 and 3 not recorded, xx Canterbury won on points, 115 to 95. ONLY A PAWN. English newspapers recently made reference to a man shot on the battlefield in whose pocket was found a sketch of a chess board with a solitary pawn on it. Mention of this touching incident by Canon Randolph at St. Paul’s (London) elicited the following sympathetic lines from a lady writer; — Found in the trenches after the fight, Nobody near him. Shot in the night. Is that a message tacked in his vest? One scrap of paper, stained like the rest. Plan of a chess board, carefully drawn; No other pieces, only a pawn. • That was his message! No one to blame, Only a pawn in the Empire's game. —(Signed) Edith Vicars. —Wellington correspondent. CATCHES IN PROBLEMS. Many players will think that problems are quite “catchy” enough when White sacrifices his queen in some seemingly ridiculous fashion, or makes the most unlikely looking move on the board, hut there are three particular kinds of trap or catch. When they are, introduced simply with the idea of being humorous they have little to recommend them, hut composers often use these particular “ traps ” as a definite theme for their problems.

You may be expecting something far more difficult than is really coming. The three types are:— 1. Pawn takes pawn on passant. In this case the onus of proof must lie with White to show that Black has just moved the pawn two squares. If he hod no other legal last move then White can play P x P e.p. 2. Castling. After much discussion some 10 to 15 years ago it was tnoi'© or lees decided that White or Black may retain the right of castling unless it con be proved that he has moved king or rook. To take a very simple illustration—if it is White’s move ar.d_ Black lias king on K 1 and R on R 1 as his only pieces, then he has just moved one of them and cannot castle). (Some editors may look on castling as illegal and it is Still sometimes ruled out in tourneys, hut the rulings given above were the decisions of the International Problem Board some years ago.) 3. Pawn promotion to other pieces than queen. This is, of course, in a completely, different category from the foregoing. It is a

perfectly legal move, and sometimes promotion to knight occurs in a game if a check is desired. Promotion to rook or bishop to avoid a stalemate must be very rare indeed in games, but common enough in problems.—By C. 8, Eepplng in * Chess.’ NOTES; Reuben Fine was successful where Dr Euwe and Hans Kmoch had failed. To win two tournaments in U.S.S.R. one has to be a world-beater, which the young American master undoubtedly is. True, Botvinnik, Rumln, Ragozin, and. Lisitzm did not take part, but the field was strong enough for any international tournament. In the tournament at Moscow, which was played first. Fine’s only loss was to Yudovitoh. In the second tournament, which was played Sn Leningrad, Fine did not lose a ® ame ’ —• Sunday Bun.’