CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9775, 23 March 1895, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

" Glcnalvon."— No. 1204: B-R2 as reply to Kt-Wi is not an'effective defence, as White proceeds R(on Q6YxP ch ; then if Q or BxU, mate is given by Kt either on B6 or 83. Of course the Kt may not be captured without dis. ch.

SOLUTION OV PROBLEM Mo. 1205. White. ■« Black, 1 Q takes P K takes R 2Kt to KBS mat« > 1 P takes E 2 Q to Kt4 mate

Kt takes Kt

2 Q to Ktfl mate

Kt to R5, or any other move of this Kt

2 R to K4 mate

2 Q takes Kt mate

P to Kts

Kt to Q7, or any other move of this Kt

2 Q to B3 mate.

PROBLEM No. 1207.

(According to the New Orleans States, the following ending occurred in actual play) Black, 10.

White, 7. White mates in four mores.

NEW ZEALAND CONGRESS.

The following. game in this contest, from the Canterbury Times, is remarkable for the opportunity offered to White of effecting a flue mate by sacrificing a rook at his 18th move. "No one, however," says the Melbourne Leader, " appears to have noticed that he would have won equally at his 19th move, as pointed out by us. Had he hit on the correct combination. White could no doubt have been awarded the brilliancy prize."

(a) Adopted by Ettlinger v. Lnsker in 1892, and by Mieses v. Tarrasch at the Leipzig Congress, 1&94. The defence in both cases was 3 I'-KKtii. (b) Well played; 3 B-K3 was tempting, but unsound ; neither would 8 Kt-Kts, or 8 Kt-Kt3 have turned out well.

(c) 9 U-QR3 would be met by 10 B-IC3, and if 10 QxP, then 11 B-Q4. (d) Black has conducted his game well hitherto, but now 12 Castles, at a precautionary measure, should have preceded this move. (e) If 16 KxP, 17 B-K3—Q-B2 1, 18 QR-B sq—QKt sq, 19 Q-ICt3 cliP-Q4, 20 P-B4 wins a piece at least. 16 K-B or B3 is no better. (0 II 17 K-B or Bi, then 18 Q—V7, and again Whit* wius * piece at least. 00 Taking advantage of his opponent's premature twelfth more. White started at once a vigorous attack, and sustained it with excellent judgment to this point. But now that success was within his grasp, he failed to realise the fact. Instead of his actual rao«e, the sacrifice of his rook by 18 KxP ch would have led to a mate in nine moves, and a probable award of a brilliancy prize, e.g., 18 RxP ch— Kxll, 19 R-K ch—B-K4. 20 B-113 ch-K-Q4 (20 K--82, 21 Q-B7 ch, and mates in two), 21 Q-K4 ch, and mates in six mores. If 19 K-R2, 20 Q-Q7 eh—K moves, 21 Bxß (B3) and mates in two. If 18 K-Q sq, 19 Bxß ch, and mates in six moves. (h) Which should cost a pawn or something in position. We see no objection to 19 P-K4. (i) Why n .t 20 Bxß-Qxß, 21 Q-Q4 ch-P-K4 (21 K-82, 22 yxQP-Qxß, 23 QK-Kt »q-Q-83, 24 QB6), 22 QxslP ch—ll-K3, 23 Q-R3. (3) 22 I*-K4 was required. The move made should lose a pawn. (k) White should reply 23 Q-KR4 ch—K-KM, 24 Rxl'.et-. (1) Black, who had played an uphill game all through with great perseverance and courage, at length emerges from his difficulties with an eaual game. (m) Both players show considerable skill in the conduct of the end game. 1. White again misses his opportunity he has still a forced mate on as follows :—

10 RxPch KxK 121 Q-B4 ch K-Kt2 20 R-K ch K-B3 (a) |22 R-K7 ch and mates next move ! (a) 20 K-B2 21 Q-Q7 cli 21 K-Kt sq 22 R-K7, and wins. An entertaining partie contested between M. Tchigorin (White) and Mr. Gossip (Black) :— staunton's opening. 1 P-K4 P-K4 9 KKt-Q-2 Kt-Kt3 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-CJB3 10 B-K4 Q-QIU 3 P-B3 P-Q< 11 Q-Kt3 P-B4 4 Q-H4 P-lM 12 B-B7 ch K-K2 5 B-Kts KKt-K2 13 Kt-H4 Q-R3 0 PxP QxP 14 B-Kts ch Kxß 7 Castles B-Q2 15 Kt-Q<3 mate. 8 P-IJ4 P-K3

The members of the Auckland Chess Club engaged in the championship tourney hive been notified th\t all games remaining uuplayed after the llth April will be scored against defaulters. It is probable that the match between Mr. K. N. Wallace, the champion of Australia, and Mr. F. K. Ksling, champion of Victoria, fur the championship of Australia, will begin in April. Champion Lasker is reported to have quite recovered from his recent serious illness, and on Saturday, January 19, he gave an exhibition of simultaneous play at the Brighton Chess Club, where ho had twenty member* of the club for his opponents. Ho performed the remarkable feat of winning the whole of th-> twenty (tames. On the following Friday ho redeemed an old promise by meeting the competitors in the Liverpool Weekly Mercury trophy tournament in simultaneous play ; and on .Saturday, January 26. he paid his second professional visit to the Liverpool Chess Club. His first appearance there was noteworthy from the fact that it formed his introduction to the chess world at large. The Liverpool Weekly Mercury remarks that on the return of Mr. Amos. Burn from the Breslau tourney of 1889, he reported that ha had met a youiig player whom he thought likely to take a foremost place in the ranks of the masters of chess. '■ As _ a consequence the club wrote to Lasker, inviting him to visit Liverpool anil play a match with the veteran Bird. The meeting took place in 1890, and I*askor won by seven games against two. Since then his career has been one of uninterrupted success."

During the Adelade Congress, 1887, the winner is said to hive lost 71b in weight during the tournament. Severe headache and insomnia were pretty general among the players. Some resorted to smelling salts during the play; one gentleman played almost fasting ; whilst another favoured a nutritious and stimulating diet, having a select assortment of bottles and tumblers in front of him containing cognac, colonial wine, and an extract of celery, beef, and iron to support him while he played. The Victorians, who lived together, were recommended phosphorus for brain power, taken in the form of oysters, and as the prescription did not prove unpalatable they took nightl/doses. -- Austra'aslan.

, The following will be found in Rowbotham's Translation of Dami&no"other some nays that there were two brethren, the one named Utile and the other Tirrhene, who, being Afflicted with great hunger and famine, did invent thin playe to the end that in playing it they might employ their spirits so vehemently that they might the more easily pass the faminall affliction, and, indeetle, they passed the time so well thai they made but three meales in two days. 1

Sicilian Defence. White, Mr. A. Gilford (Rangitikei); Black, Mr. O. C. Pleasants (Colyton). 1 P-K4 : P-QB4 27 R-B8 QxQ(l) 2 Kfc-QB3 Kt-QB3 28 RxQ { ll-Q3 3 P-KKt3(a)P-K8 28 P-KKU P-QS 4 B-IU2 P-KKt3 30 R-K2 P-Q6 6 KKt-K2 Kt-B3 31 it-Q2 K-Q5 6 5»-Q4 PxP 32 P-K113 K-KV2 7 KtxP Q-Kt3 33 R-B3 1£(K>-Q sq 5 KtxKt(b) KtPxICt 31 R-K3 K-B3 0 CAHtlM B-KKt2(c) 35 P-KB3 R-QRo 10 P-K5 Kt-Q4 36 P-QR3 JWRfi) Q5 11 KtxKt BPxKt 37 K-B2 P-K4 12 R-K sq P-Q3 (d) 38K-Ksq R-OB sq 13 P-QBt BxKP 39 K-K3 R-B7 14 PxP B-QKt2 40 R(K)-Q sq K-KM 15 Q-R4cll K-K2 41 RxP RxR ch 16 PxP PxP (e) 42 RxR RxKtP 17 H-Kt5 Ch B-B3(f) 43 K-Q7 R-QKt6ch 18 BxB ch (g) KxB 44 JC-K4 HxliP 19 Q-KKt4(l)KR-Ksq h 45 RxKRP K-B3 20 K-K2 (i) ItxB 46 P-IU P-IU 21 KxB QH-Qsq 47 P-Kt5 ch K-K3 22 QK-K sa »'-Q4 (j) 48 P-R5 R-R5 ch 23 (k) K-K12 49 K-K3 K-B4 24 4-K5 ch K-B2 60 P-R6 KxP (m) 25 K-K3 y-Q3 Drawn. 26 R-B3 ch K-Kt sq NOTES.