CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11229, 25 November 1899, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHESS. Problems No. 1575 to Solved also by "TIC." Inglewood. Problem No., 1580.-Solved also by J.H. and " Knight. Problem No. Solved by "Sigma," "XXX" " Knight," " 5.M.," and. "Pawn, xnt ' nuite so " easy. Sarnian and B N.K.," as will be discovered on looking over the position again. Italian Mate.—Solved by " Sarnian, " Sigma," "XXX," "J.H.," and "Pawn. DRAUGHTS. Prob'em No. 1028.—Solved by Mr. Thomas Armstrong, Marton (" A very neat stroke"). SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 1579. white. black, 1 Q-Rs'i SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 1580. White. BLACK. 1 ki-B3 - 3 Q-KtiJ, mate « Kt-Ki ell 1 K-Q5 3 Q-ICtS, or B-KO, 2 1C moves mate ace. 1 Ktxß 2 Q-Q.', cli 2 It moves 3 lit or I!, mates acc. 1 ICtxlCt 2 Q-Kt; cli 2 K moves PROBLEM No. 1582. (Bv Walter Pulitzer. From the Literary Digest.) BLACK, 8.

White, 12. White mates In two moves. PROBLEM No. 1583. (By FRANTISEK DETTRICII, Prize-taker, Bohemian Chess Association.) BLACK, 9.

WHITE, 7. White mates in three moves. MASTER PLAY. A specimen of the skill of the late Mr. E. Thorold, played in the Manchester tourney of 1890. Ginoco Piano. White, Mr. E. Thorold; Black, Mr, J. H. Blackbume. White. Black. White. Black. 1 I'-Kl l'-M I »3 CasllesKtt 15-Q-J 2 ICI-ICB3 Kt-QIU 24 K-ICKS Kt-R3 3 15—154 li-Hl I 25 QK-Kl! sq lt-KBsn 4 P-QJ Kt-IJ3 120 Kt-QUI l'-QKU(S) 5 11-K3 1!-Kt:t 27 ICtxl' KtxlCt (IBxlS(l) ItPxP 1 iSItxICt K-Its<i(9) 7 <)Kt-<)2 Castles 129 Q-KIH R KKtsa 8 l'-QB'J P-Q4 130 It-IC Q-Kt3 eh '.I I!-Kt3(2) PxP |81K-Kt2 I{-Kts 10 PxP Q-K2 32 INKS dl lt-KH 11 Q-K2 l'-ICKtI 133 Q-Ky ell (3) J (HO K-R3 12 P-KIU3 Kt-Q2 34 11-KB6 K-Q7 ell 13 l'-KIU KM) 114 135 K-lisq(ll)(j-KKt3 II 15-112 l'-lClii (4) I 30 K-ICKtS! 15 Q-153 11-Q Sf| I (12) QxR 111 l'-QKtt Kt-l)2 137 RxliP cli K-KtS 17 B-K13(5) Kl-KIl sq 3S Q-ICH.IcII K-ICI2 15 ICt-Kta B-IC3 3!) l/xll ell K-lt sq ID Kixll KtxKt IIOQ-H4 Q-Q »q •J) I'-KIM! Q-153 (6) 118-QM R-QKt7 21 P-1<5(7) Kt-lvlt sq 142 Qxlll' It sinus. 22 l .v? (JxKlI 1 ; Xofes by Mr. C. E. Ranlien. (II The disadvantage of this exchange is that it ovens the adverse Q 1! tile, and in many cases allows the opponent to post a Kt at 1C 11 5 12) If the pawns are exchanged, Black's Kt at once threatens to go to Ii J, and, in any event, lie would have the better position. toi Intending Kt— R 4. but even though White lias no Q I), this is a weakening move. There seems to he no reason, however, why the Kt should not go to K It 4 at once. 141 White threatened l'-R 5. and the reply E-lvt 5 would have been met by Q-K 3 and then Ki-K i. (5) This bishop now becomes a thorn in Black's side to the vcrj end. (61 K-Kt 2 is a move which perhaps might have been made before, and probably would have been of service now, since Black suffered all along by his K B P being pinned. (71 Finely played. If now I' x P, 22 P x P. Q x I'; 23 Kt-K 4, threatening li-K B sq., etc. (81 Black cannot save the K P, and he plays thus to prevent P-Kt 5 winning the exchange. (91 If P-B 3, then Q R-K B 5. HO) One of the commentators on this game thought that White could have won here more easily by Q x P eh, etc., but we doubt it. (11) IC-R 3 was quite safe, as White was now threatening mate in three moves. (12) Beautiful and decisive. BRILLIANT BREVITIES. The following cbessikin played by Mr. J. M. Pollit, of the Athemeum Club, Manchester, shows the-danger of being too eager to walk off with your opponent's Queen. White. Amateur; Black. Mr. Pollit. White. Black. White. Black. 1 P-Q4 T'-Q4 IC. Kt-153 Kt-KR P-QBt P-K3 | I 11-Q2 Ktxß! 3 ICt-l)B3 Kt-KB3 | 8 KlxQ KtxKt, 4 B-Kts B-Kto | mate. 5 PxP Qxf I One of 26 games played simultaneously at the Manhattan Chess Club, New York:White, Stcinitz; Black. Amateur. White. Black. ' White. Black. 1 P-K5 P-IC4 I C QxKtP B-B3 2P-QIS3 P-Q3 | 7 Q-BScll Q-Q 3 P-Qt B->)2 I SBxPch K-K2 4 B-QB4 Kt-KB3 I 9 Q-KO, irate 5 Q-KtS Q-K2 | The veteran 11. E. Bird scores in vigorous style:— ICIESERITZKI GAMBIT. White, Amateur; Black, Mr. Bird. ' White. Black. White. Black. 1 P-IC4 P-K4 10 Kt-B4 PxP 2 P-KB4 PxP 11 Kt-Ktfi KtxP 3 Kt-K 153 P-ICICt4 12 Ktxß P-B5 4 P-KR4 P-ICto 13 ICt-B3 (,M)3 d Kt— P-KH4 14 K-B2 Q-IJ4 OP-Q4 P-Q3 15 Kt-R4 KtxP ell 7 Kt-Q3 P-ill' IB KixQ BxKtch 5 P-KlCtj P-KB4 17 B-IC3 Bxß, mate 9 P-K5 Kt-QB3 | The intercolonial match by telegraph which was to have taken place between Queensland and New South Wales on Prince of Wales' Birthday, was postponed to November 18 through 11 miles of wire being down in Queensland territory. Next to music and singing, says a traveller, tho most exquisite pleasure of tile Turcomans is in the game of chess. Their chess-board is most frequently a piece of linen, a simple pocket handkerchief, on which the squares are traced. They wet it in order to stretch it. The pieces are roughly cut with the knife. Even when they set off on a raid they always carry their game of chess Tho celebrated New Orleans Chess, Checkers, and Whist Clnb was started in 1850. The present number of members is 890, to which number it has been limited. The entrance feo is 50 dollars, and tho annual subscription 20 dollars. Men's minds are like the pieces on a chessboard in their way of moving. One mind creeps from the square it is on to the next, straight forward like the pawns. Another sticks close to its own line of thought, and follows it as far as it goes, with no heed for others' opinions, as the Bishop sweeps the board in the line of his own colour. And another class of mind breaks through everything that lies before them, ride over argument and opposition, and go to the end of the board like the castle. But there is still another sort of intellect, which is very apt to jump over the thought that is next, and i come down in the unexpected way of the knight. But that same knight, as the chess manuals will show you, will contrive to get on to every square of the board in a pretty series of moves that looks like a pattern of embroidery, and so. these zigzagging minds, like the master's, will sooner or later get back to the square next the one they started from. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. If amateurs were compelled to play at a faster rate more matches would be finished at the same sitting. Some players have learned the waiting game too well. They simnly move the pieces about almost aimlessly. and with very lonß intervals between eacli move, until time is called, when adjudication settles the result, often most unsatisfactorily. Chess-players who always aim at winning are at a great disadvantage. Looking at the matter in a- common-sense light, nothing would appear simpler or more obvious than that the object of each player is to win his game. :No such thonght appears present to the mind' of the true English disciple of the German school. He keep 3 the draw in hand, will not be tempted to make any attack, waits to discover a weak spot or a blunder, and too often wins against a chivalrous but aggressive opponent by such ( tactics as we have described. It is a paying ; game, but it is not nobb.-London Times. |