CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9401, 6 January 1894, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

}*' ; / PROBLEM Mo. 1144. (By J. H. Blackburne.) : • -,u. , i Black, 3. f

, White,.io, .. White to play and mate in three moves.

NEW ZEALAND CHESS CONGRESS.

The scores of the different competitors at the con-. elusion of Thursday's play is here given, as made up from the telegraphed accounts of the progress of the tournamoiit. lln one or two instances, however, the language is so involved that it is difficult to determine which of the pair was the winner.

J " TCHIGORIN V. TARRASCH. ■ Twenty-second and last game in the St. Petersburg match.—From Times Weekly Edition. . , White, Tchigorin; Black, Tariusch. 1 P-K4 P-K3 30 R-QB B-K sq 2 Q-K2 B-K2 31 Kt-B« cnK-Kt2 3 P-QKt3 P-Q4 , 32 KtxQP P-B4 4 B-KC2 B-B3 33 R-B aq R-Q sq 5 Bx»(a) Klxß 34 R-B5 R-Q3 6 P-K& KKt-Q2 35 R-K6 R-Q sq 7 Q-KM Castles . 36 K-B2 B-B3 8 P-KB4 Kt-QBS 87 Kt-B4 R-KB 9 P-B l P-Q5 38 K-Kt3 K-B3 10 Kt-B3 PxP 39 P-K7 R-B sq; 11 KtxP Kt-B4 (b) 40 R-K6 ch K-B2 12 P-Qi (C) P-KB4 41 RxP B-K6 13 PxP enpaiiQxßP 42 R-K6 B-Kt2 14 R-Q sq Kt-Q2 43 R-K sq B-B3 16 B-Q3 (d) Q-R3 44 P-Kts R-K sq 10 Castles Kt-B3 (e) 45 Kt-KJ R-QB sq 17 Q-Kt3(f)Kt-KR4 , J 46 Kt-B8 K-KI2 18 Q-R4 ltxP 47R-K8 K-B2 19 PrKKM Kt-B3 48 R-K5 K-Kt 20 QxQ I'xQ (g) 49 K-B4 B-K 21 Kt-K6 EsH cU 50 K-B5 P-KU 22 BxR KtxKt 61 K-B2 , ' 23 PxlCt Kt-Q.4 52 KtxP P-B5 . 24 Kfc-K4 > P-ltt3 53 Kt-B6 , P-B6 25 B-Kt2 B-Kt2 , 54 R-K5 K-Kt2 26 ch K-Kt2 65 Ktxßch RxKt 27 Kt-Rsch (fi)K-Kt aq 56 K-K6 R-Qlssq 28 BxKt Pxß. 57 K-Q7 P-B7 29 P~Ke 1 B-B3 (i) 58 R-K Resigns. (a) To players of ordinary capacity, the advance of the KP would appear more chessy, and we confess a partiality for it, even though it for the time shuts out the QB. , ' ... ~ . (b) Threatening Kt-QKtS, which, however, might have preceded the text move. (c) A move that was probably a surprise to Black. Che reply must not be KtxP, or White castles QR and wins the piece.' Black decides, it will be seen, on a variation which is also of interest, and ought to have proved more satisfactory. (d) Another promising move was B-QB4, answered by Kt-Kt3. ' - ■ _ _ ~ (e) Here again is an alternative, RxP, presenting great difficulties over the board. White probably replies BaP ch, winning the R, if either Q or K take the , piece, Resides, Black's QBP must be looked after. • , * . (f) This is unaccountable, becauso Q~lCts is so obviously superior. ■• , (g) And here surely RxP ch is good enough first ? (Dr. Tarrasch said it would in fact win.) . (h) White does not exchange at once, because the Black king is too near.the advanced White P. , The ending, like many others in the match, is a beautiful study. • . . _ • (5) Not B-I! sq, because of Kt-BO ch, or R-K sq for the same reason; but this gives White a winning opening, and from this point all that need be noted is the accuracy of the play.. • , _ _ _ (j) If 64—, J?-U7; 55, P-Kt6ch, K-Kt2; 60, Ktxß ch, and wins. A curious game.

For more than 30 years Mr. J.' H. Blackburne has played chess. He is now SO. He has • played 16 games blindfold, simultaneously. After such a contest, 'however, it is said that ha canuot sleep for hours-. He often discards the game for weeks, declaring that, lifter a hard-fought match, the sight of a chess-bo ird becomes hateful to him. ' ■ * < -■ At a banquet 'in Montreal in' honour of Mr. Steinifc", $100?,) was aubscrilwd in a few minutes to back the champion against Lasker, 1 provided the second part of the match be played in that city. ■ A Moscow correspondent of the New York Review writes tMt TarraSch and Tcliigorin received ati invitation from the City to play there a abort match of five games for a purse of 90 rubles for every won game, and that the invitation was accepted by the player*.. • , . . The San Francisco Chronicle states that a great international chess congress and tournament is to be held in that city next spring. , The sum of JH3S has been subscribed in Sydney towards the proposed testimonial to Mr. Crane, exchampion ch.s<Hplayer.' It has been resolved that the presentation shall take the form of a gold watch, suitably inscribed inside, and that on. the outside there shall be engraved a representation of a chess-board, showing the position of the pieces as played in the last game in which Mr. Crane uoheld the championship of Australasia.—Queenslander. A great contest has lately been in progress at Belfast to determine the player who shall fight Mr. Robinson for the championship of Ulster. Messrs. M'Crum and Williams have tied, and these players must now contest a match for the best of three games, the winner securing the right to strive to oust the last year's champion from possession of the trophy and title.' ' „ , .. Chess is nourishing in the "Island Empire, says the Japan Mail. A brisk correspondence match is in progress between Yokohama and Negaski. Two games, a Ruy Lopez and a Petroff, are chosen to decide the supremacy. j Another Musters' Tournament is , being arranged in the United States, the entries including, besides many competitors' in the recent contest at New York, Mr. A. B. Hodges, Mr. J. W. Baird, Mr. E. Ettlinger, Mr. Walter Frero, and Mr. N. Hymes. The play takes place four days a week, at the Brooklyn Chess Club, the tim» limit is 20 moves per hour, and every player gets a prize according to his The match Steinitz v. tlie Liverpool Chess Club The match Steinitz r. the Liverpool Chess Club has begun. The home club has adopted the inevi. table Buy Lopez game, and;the champion has adopted an opening which may develop into a Qiuoco Piano, or Evans Gambit.. One of the American chess columns remarks that it is not a match at all, Mr. Steinitz conducting two games for a fee, regardless of the result of the games. One move per week is to be made. . . ■ The Western Mail, Perth (W.A.), of 25th ult., records the sudden death of the Right Rev. H. H. Parry, D.D., Bishop of Perth, brilliant chessplayer, accomplished scholar, and Christian gentleman. He was president of the West Australian Chess Association and of the Perth Chess Club. The Mail gays :—" He possessed all the good qualities of a chivalrous opponent, and his irreproachable demeanour banished from the contest all those worrying little meannesses which often characterise a battle between two chessplayers. It is possible that his place may be not refilled in the circle which was so often honoured by his presence, but his memory will not vanish from the hearts and minds of those who have known him." "I find chess for myself a useful means of turning my thoughts out of any too deeply-furrowed channel. And I would teach it to boys and girls just as I would teach them to ride and dance, without wishing them to rival the skill or even always to adopt the - style of professional riders and dancers."—Ruskin. * Herr Lasker remarks in the London Chess tortnightly that a great many people seem to think that in order to acquire a knowledge of e' ess they have only to obtain the latest books on the openings and gulp as much of the mass of analysis presented to them as their' memories will momentarily contain. This idea is worse than a vain delusion. It is a snare. . " Cramming" is no more effective in chess than in any other science. The cramming player may know many moves, but he knows little or nothing of the why and wherefore of the moves, and if his opponent " gets out of the books" even by a weak move he loses tuip of the game at once, flounders about like a fish.out of water, and can no more make the best of a favourable position than a cat in pattens can catch a mouse. Another system that is false is the playing of "skittle" games with an opponent of no more than equal skill and calling it "practice." Of course it is practice. but really and truly it is a practice in the art of how not to win. It is a practice that swells <he numbers of the tribe of wood shifters who will be with us to the end. Men may play chess of this sort for years and the chances are that at the end they will be just where they began. -

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