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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10079, 14 March 1896, Page 4 (Supplement)

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. Problem No. 1253.—Solved by " XXX," " Pawn," and " J.H." SOLUTION OP PROBLEM No. 1257. White. Buck. 1 B to I.UJ Q takes B 2 Q to K sq ch K. to B4 1 Q to K(J mate 2 — K to Q5 3 o takes P mate 1 — K to B1 2 Kt takes P ch Kt takes Kt (must) g Q takes P mate 1 — Kt to B(J 2.Q to Kit I£ to Q5 8 Kt to Kfl mate 2 — K to Bl 8 15 to B8 mate 1 — 1' queens i Kt takes P ch Kt takes Kt 3 B to Q3 mate 1 — P becomes Kt 2 B takes Kt Q takes 11 3 Kt takes P mate 2 — Kt to Q9 ch 3 B takes Kt mate. PROBLEM No. 1259. (By 11. F. L. MEYER.) Black, 1

THE ST. PETERSBURG TOURNEY. Game played in the sixth round Buy Lopez. White, Plllsbury; Black, tasker. 1 P-K4 P-K4 24 K-K2 K-Q sq 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-QIH 25 K-Q2 K-B2 3 B-Ktfi I<t-113 at K-B3 K-Kl3 4 Castles KtxP 27 P-B4 P-R4 6 P-Q4 11-1G 28 P-IU K-114 6 Q-k-2 Kt-Q3 29 P-115 P-Kt3 7 Bxlit KtPxß 30 P-Bl) P-04 8 PxP Kt-Kt2 SI PxH KxP 9 P-OICt 3(a) Castles 32 Kt-B3 K-K3 10 B-Kt'i P-Q4 XI Kt-Oi (e) KxP (f) 11 Px Pen pas 34 Kt- 154 P-115 (h) PxP 35 KtxP K-K4 12 QKt-(J2 1 i-113 SGKt-lHch K-B5 13 Bull Qxß 37 RHUS B-B4 14 Klt-Ksq Kt-Bl(c) 33 K-Q4 11-K5 If, Kt-K4 KtxKt 3D P-ltA P-B4 ch I# IJxKt B-Q2 4'J KxP HxP 17 P-B4 Klt-Ksq 41 P-1M P--Kl4 15 0-Q4 Rxßcli 42 Kt-05 ch K-K4 19 11x11 QxQ 41 Kt-K3 B-B0(g) 20 KlxQ K-B sq 44 H-Kt4 K-K3 21 K-Bsq P-QK4 (d) 45 I'-Kts B-IC7 22 P-QIM R-Ksq 43 Kt-CJft Resigns (h) 23 lull ch Kxit

NOTES BX THE TIMES (CONDENSED). (a) With the object, of course, of playing B-Kt2, anil bearing down, in a subtle way, on Black's castled king. (b) White could also obtain some attack by 11 KM)4- P-QB4, 12 Kt-Bfl-Q-K sq, 13 Ktxß ih(jxlCt, 14 Kt-Q'2, intending to continue with P-KB4. (c) If, Instead, 14 — P-Ql, then 15 Kt-K5: and if, in reply, 15 — H-K sq, 10 KHU4-K-K3 (forced), 17 q-B sq—Q-Q2, Is RiR-<ixtt, 19 11-K sq, etc.. with soin • superiority in position. (d) This pawn should not have been advanced. (a) 33 K-W at first sight serins more promising. (f) It was suggested that 33 - I'-Bl would have be»n bettor, bucnise the White kins bishop's pawn might have been captured »t leisuro. But the alternative move would have placed another Black pawn on a Black square, aud White would have had plenty of good dunces left. (g) If 4;i - P-Kt.'i, then 44 Ktxß-PxP, 48 KtxP —H-K7, 48 Kt-B3 ch. and White wins. (h) " This K im-!," said the Times in some Introductory remarks to the score, " is of exceptional interest, and goes far to prove that Lasker has at last met his match."

PRIZE GAME. The following game was awarded a prize of one guinea for brilliancy by the Sydney Morning Herald. It was played in the match botwoen Unley and Adelaide by Messrs. 11. Charlick (Adelaide) and 11. W. Apperly (Unley) Double Buy Lopez. White, D. Charlick; Black, U. W. Apperly. 1 P-K4 P-K4 110 P-KKU B-KKt3 2 Kt-QB3 Kir-KB} 11 Ktxqi' BxKt 3 Kt-Bi Kt-B3 112 Qxß Ci»tles 4 1!-Kt5 B-Klf) 113 BxlJlft Pxß f» i;titles p-Qn 14 BxKKt Pxlj 0 Kt-q5 lt-glit 115 KtxP K-R sq 7 P-IJ4 I'xP 110 P-KB4 P-B4 5 It-Kts 15-KKt6 17 Q-H3 ' P-KR3 9 P-KK3 15-114 |18 P-KK4 Resigns,

RESIGNATION. (After Lonrffellow.) There Is no move, however well intended, lint lias some doailly snaro; Thuru is 110 gambit, howso'or defended, Without its load of care. About tho board vexatious checks are flying; .My Pawns oppose In vain; Mv Knights ami Bishops, for their monarch (lying, Brief respite can obtain. Let us be patient. These enforced positions [''rum nlay unsound arise, But might (with slightly different conditions) Turn out quite otherwise. I see but dimly how those combinations On the King's side will work ; I must risk something in the variations Tho' perils round me lurk. I really wonder at tho way I'm playing, Such wiles to overlook ; The enemy, a trap insidious laying. lias bagged my gallant Rook. Still, there's no mate. What seems 30 ts delusion. Onward 1 push my Pawn; And as my Queen lias checks In groat profusion, Tho game may yet be drawn. Another check (not mine). Igo lamenting. Ilis Knight skips iu between, A horrid fork I 0 fortune unrelenting I There (joes my precious Queen. Not in this game shall I again possess her, For tin)', with rapturo keen, I crown yon Pawn, my last and only treasure, 1 will not have 11 Queeu. But with a Pawn— species known as dummy)— I may yet smile at fate. Your force, 1 grant, may crush me to a mummy, But also may-stalemate. Vain hope. Your queen a step advances, And leaves me one square still. I can go there, but in the circumstances I hardly think I will. No, I'll resign, and give yon no more trouble, And thank you all the same. I see you have a mate. That check Is double, Let's have another game. —Baltimore News.

In the At solving competition Mr. Thos. Sexton, of Woodville, comes out first, Mr. Andersen being second, and .I C R. third. In the playing off of the tie between Messrs. D. O. Baird mil Jasnocrodsky for the highest place in the Championship Tourney of the Manhattan Club tim lirstnamed won. Mr. I). 0. Baird also gained the championship of the New York State for the present year. Mr. it, L. Hodgson will have to fight hard to scorn wins against Mr. K. N. Wallace. In the farewell entertainment at the Sydney Chess Club to MajorGeneral tlntton, the champion of Australia played twelve games simultaneously, and won them all. A massive silver cup of the value of £100 has just been provided by the proprietors of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, whoso Intention, as expressed in a deed of gift, is to encourage contests between international representative teams. The cup is to' bo, held as a trophy by the winners of international team matches, and its custodians, for the time being, are to be subject to the obligation of defen ling their title to have possession of it, if challenged to do so, at least once a vear. The right to bold the cup will be determined for the first time by the result of the team match which is to be fought at an early date between America and Great Britain.

Jonathan Hall, a well-known composer and devotee of chess In Boston, died in that city on January 3. He is said to hare boon Pillsbury's Instructor in the rudiments of the game when that ambitious and now famous young mister first bogan his chess career in Boston. Surrey played Kent recently a big match—Bo boards. Surrey won by 63J ?ames to '22J, The British Chess Magazine says' The object of those big matches is not considered by the officials so much a test of strength as a stimulus to the country clubs and a social gathering." A return match will be played at Rochester in April next,