CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11825, 30 November 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Problem No. Solved also by " D.D." Problem No. 1733.—Solved also by " Pawn." Problem No. 1739. —Solved by_ " Pawn." "Tensi," " J.F.," "XXS..," "Knight," and " R. 8." Problem No. 1790 (to mate in three).— Solved by "XXX.." "Knight," and " 8.5." SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 1787. WHITS BLACS. 1 B-B7 SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 1788. TThite Black. 1 Kt-QKt 7 KxR 2 Q-R eh K moves. 3 O mate 3. 1 ' B-KKt 8 2 Q-Q 2 Any. 3 Kt, or Q mate.. i PxKt queens. ' 2 KtxP. ch K::E 3 Q-K 5 mate. In other variations White plays 2 Kt-QKt 2 ch. PROBLEM No. 1791. (From problems by Fi Klett.) Black. 9.

White, 9. White to play and mate in two moves.

PROBLEM No. 1792. (By GEO. J. Slater, Bolton. Best problem in Football Field during last half-year.) BLACK. 3. ?

Whits, 8. White to play and mate in three moves.

A BRILLIANCY FROM VIENNA. RUt Lopez. White, Dr. Sfeilncr; Black, Alapin. 1 P-K P-K 4 13 KKt-Q P-Kt 6 2 Kt-KB Kt-QB 3 14 PxP—Q-Kt 5 (a) 5 B-Kt s—Kt-B 3 15 Q-B 6—Kt-R 4 (In 4 Castles— 4 is Kt-B 3—KtxP (c) 5 P-B s—Castles 17 QKt-Q 2—Kt-K 7 ch(d) 6 4—B-Kt 3 18 K-B, 1— 5 (e) 78-Kts—P-G3 19 R-KKt I—BsP (f) 8 BsQKt—Pxls 20 Q-B 4—Kt-K 7 (g) 9 Q-B 4-P-KK 3 21 CKt-B 1-Q-R 4 ch 10 QxBP—PxB 22 KKt-H 2-Kt-Kt 6 ch (h) 11 Qxli-Q-Q 2 23 KtxKt—BxKt 12 P-Q 5-P-Kt a And Black mates next move (i). Notes from Birmingham Weekly Mercury. (a) Note how Black come on and how White loses moves in trying to bring back the queen from the rook raid. (b) Keep an eye on this humorous knight; his playful little, ways are immensely entertaining. (c) Not for the pawn, but for the position. Black scorns material. (d) Keeping up the fun; White shuffles uneasily out of cover and trembles at the base •of the rook Hie. (el The manoeuvres of General French's Horse in South Africa were nothing to this. (fl Ilenlly it seems time that the clergy were called in; 'White is in articuio mortis. (g) A lovely little move! If White takes the knight, then Black checks at It 4, and White has to commit suicide in trying to save himself. He loses the queen. (h) That irrepressible Uhlan once again! (f) This is chess; old style chess with pleasing imaginative moves. We would there were more of it.

AN ODDS GAME. A remarkably fine game at odds, recently played at the Vienna Chess Club. Scores and notes (abridged) from To-day: — BEHOVE WHITE Q Kt. White, M. JanoT.'ski; Black, Amateur. 1 P-KB 4(a)— 4 15 K-K 2-Q-B 2 2 P-K3-P-K3 16 P-Kt 6!—P-KR 3 (e) 3 Kt-B 3—Kt-KB 3 17 Kt-Kt 4 !—P-Q 5 4 P-Q Kt s—B-K 2 18 Q-R 3— Bull (f 5 B-Kt 2—P'B4 19 KfcxßP ch-K-lt (g) 6 Kt-K CW,ie? 20 Q-Kt Q-B 3 7 B-Q 3-Kt-B 3 21 Kt-B 7 ch-K-Kt (h) S Q-B Kt-QKt 5 22 Jtxß BxKt 9 P-KKt 4-Ktj(B ch 23 R-KKt—P-B 4 10 Pxß—P-OKt 3 (b) 24 Q-E 5 (i)—Kt-B 3 11 P-Kt Kt-Q 2 25 PxE. di—K-B 12 Kt-Kt 4 (cV- 3 (d) 26 Q-R 8 ch-KxP 13 Kt-B 2-P-B 3 27 RxP mate. 14 P-KR 4-B-Kt 2. (a) It is not bad policy to try this opening when giving these odds to a strong opponent, as in tiio present case. It evades the " books" and prevents the exchange of too many pieces. (b) The right move was Kt-Q 2; if 11 P-Kt 5, then P-B 3, and White's attack is spoilt. (c) He has a good square for the Kt now, which was not the case before. (d) B-Kt 2 at once was better. (e) PxP, and then B-KKt wins back the P, and with an improved position for attack. (0 Natural enough, but P-B 4 was the move. (g) If PxKt, then 20 QzP ch, K-Kt 2. 21 Qxß ch. KxP, 22 P-ll 5 ch. etc. (h) If RxKt. of co-arse Q-R 5 ch, and mate follows. (i) Not Q-R 5, for Black could afford to play B-B 6 ch, and also next move if Q-R 5, Black escapes by Q-Kt 7 ch. (j) At last! and the mate is forced. An extraordinary game. A match by telegraph between Oamaru and Canterbury wan commenced on November 16,. continued on November 23, and will be concluded on November 30. At the close of the second day's play the indications were i-: favour of a win by Oamaru.

Chess in Glasgow opened with the engage- ■ ment of Mr. It. Toichmann at the Glasgow Chess Club, which began on September 16, and was to continue for two mouths. Mr. Viner, last year's champion, has again secured the championship of Western Australia, his score being 4 wins, 2 draws. Mr. Hilton came next, but lost both his games to Mr. Viner. Preparations are beinG made by M. A. de Riviere, of Paris, for the organisation of another international tourney next winter at Monte Carlo. The committee is formed, and prominent representatives of all nations have been asked to join the governing body. Prince Dadian, of Mhigrelia, has given 500 francs as a brilliancy prize. The tourney this time will take place in a room to which spectators can be admitted, which was not the caw last winter. Dr. E. Las-ker and Mr. Pillsbury are expected to compete. The latter will then be on a starring tour of twelve months in Europe, and he has) challenged the former to a match for the world's chain- ! plonship. The following is a Yankee word-picture of Mr H. N. Pills-bury, the chess champion and draughts player, when engaged in play:— : " Sitting with his legs wound into an ungraceful knot, calmly puffing at a cigar as he studied intently a flowered figure on the wall three feet in front of his nose, a goodlooking young man lately pitted himself blindfold against the individual and combined che=9 and draughts wit of fourteen of Atlanta's best players. This young man is an eighth wonder of the world, the wizard, Harry Pillsbury. a chess and draughts master. Bo «us a thinking machine, an intellectual tablet upon which he himself inscribes what he would remember, and, once inscribed, there's no forgetting it. It is the acme of concentration: a triumph of mind over matter; a physical demonstration of the infinite possibilities of the human mind once it is turned upon a certain achievement. One cannot help wondering what tho same concentration along other and more practical lines would have done. Surely it might have moved the world. Such minute detail as exists in the wonderful brain which does this thing sans voir is absolutely unsurpassed."

An illustrated article in the September number of the Wide World gives some fresh particular!) about Btrobeck, the chess-playing village in the Ilartz Mountains. One of these is that if a young Strobecker desires to marry a girl whose home is in a neighbouring vil'age and who is not a good chess-player, he is'required to pay a prescribed amount by way of fine. All such amounts are placed to the credit of the fund for defraying the expenses of the quinquennial tournament. M. .Tanowski (Paris) is about to make a grand chess tour in Russia, calling on hi 3 way at Munich and Vienna.