DRAUGHTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10419, 17 April 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)

DRAUGHTS.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 892, 8- 7 12- 8 21-25 16-19 25-3!) 30-26 21-17 7—IP 3-7 23-16 7-H 16-7 11-21 8- 3 Black wins. PROBLEM No. 894. (By W. V. Bensiead. Fir.t prize "Stroke" Yorkshire Post.) Buck.

. White. White to play and win.

NKVT ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIP DRAUGHTS TOURNAMENT. A Frets Association telegram Informed in tint the entries for ihe championship draughts tournament to be held during the Kasler holidays at Oainaru comprise! .Messrs. Sounds. Uaiinel, Mlllvoy, ami Scott, Invercargill; Gibson, Manah; Blair, Murray, Burnett, ami Anderson, Wanjranui; Jas. Borehaui, Jacob IS.ir.'lwra. llapin, and Cmok. Oainarii: l.ce, Sim, ad Buiterneld. Teniuka ; Hales, Wellington; Heck, Tim in. It was expecied that posi entries would probably bring the total up to 25. The number of competitors last year was seventeen, s>) that on the present occasion there is likely to be a gratifying Increase, But live of the playeM enumerated above took part in the previous Congress, the great majority being names unknown to draughts fame. The absence i>l some well-known players will be regretted, though i'o-sibly the post entries m.iy to a .ertaiu extent, remedy thk A notable absentee one would expect to see indiMeil in the li-t of entries is Mr. I). A. Hro.lie, of lliinedin; but for so iK reason he has evidently elected not to take part. Auckland, which last vear was represented by >ir. H. Henderson, is evidently to be tinrei>resrnled at the coming Congress.

A POK-KTICALI'OIvSIIIOX. (By MR. 0. H. RICHMOND. From the Pitbburg

Dispatch.) As 1 sat one evening dreaming, On checker problems scheming, Trying to invent a screaming problem, as in days of yoiv, I th.ui.'lit 'tis useless trying For new enisura* spying. As all the Imstp -isirioiu were published long before; Useless trj-ina any m..re! I thought <if many checker tricks, And set two Blacks on ten mid six, And then, »s an appendix, I added iwo men more. On tifieeu pi iced a White mail, I In nineteen set a light man; Then it was I noticed a simple row of four— Just a row, and nothing more. On fourteen sit a Black king; Thought I, '• Th it is a slack i nine,, Unless I make a crick thing liy adding one man more. So a limn on six ami t wen , y I placed, and then had plenty. And as I moved tho king anil played it o'er, Black just won, anil nothing more. Buck.

WIIITIC. Black to piny and win. OAME Xo. 1C5.-" Boston." (By Mk. A. IC. Greenwood, Morcly.) 11-18 11—10 I-β 7—ID lf>-22 5-14 22-17 25—"il 19-15 11- 7 20—IU 11 —1 r> !)-13 i- S 11-lii 0-14 'J —l4 22-258 17_H "ii-2-2 -25-22 7-3 3-7 15-1!) 10-17 S-11 7-IIU Ii — 0 13-17 '24-28 21—14 2-2-1S 14- 7 3-8 7-11 10—23 8-11 10-31 3-19 W-!4b 17-22 2.'i-30 24_19 ;j(i_3i ijj-lo -S- 3 23-19 31-27 15-24 O-β 2-7 10-Ilicd 10-28 3(1--?:, 25 —111 2!) -25 15-11 22—la 27-9 23-JU White wins. (a) Stumes'plays 10-19 here and draws. (Ii) In th» appendix t'i l.ee's Guide this move is given to daw hi Mr. 11. (I. I'alveit. I submit the accon:iauyill: pla> lupirrectlliul. (c) 21 -VS, 3-S, 10—IA, 22-18, 15-22, 20-10, 9—14, S —ll. - White wins. (d) II) 10, 23-10, 12-1!), 3-8, 10-15, 22-17.-Wliit« wins. (e) 1-2-10, IU-7, 14-18, 7-3, 16-19, 3--7.—White wins. On Kebimiy the IStli, Mr. Thos. Cowie prodded at a meeting of the committee appointed at Liverpool to pn ite an liuglish imrn.niem. in thac city at raster this year. After a full .i.nsidmtion nf the position, it was revived, upon tlie notion of Mr. It. Johns'Mi, to deter tire holding of ihe prop.ised tnltrniineiit until such time as n National Association should be formed. The committee hone tliat various schemes for organisation may be ills-cu-sed in the leading dr.iujhis columns, and that representatives of rarmus t.>wns will avail tliemseh'i's of one "f the in itches expected to be held at Whitsuntide to approve a scheme so that it may be nilt into in mediate operation, anil the tournament held at. either (Jnrisums, New Year, »r faster, 189S, as mav b« found most suitable. The promoters of the proposed touin unent intended it to bean aid to the foimati'ii nf a national body, aud do not wish the opportunity to pass.