DRAUGHTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12543, 9 April 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)

DRAUGHTS.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 1266. Position:—Black men on )r 10, 15, 20; White men on 5, 3, 13, king on 23. White to move and win. 8_ 3 15—IS 13— » I—lo 1— 5 JO—l4a 23—1!) 22—25 5— i SO— 3—. 7 15—221) 3— « 25—81) 6— 0 White win?. (a)' If 20—24, then 3— arid' TOf< tfins. (b) If 11-17, White Wins by H-'.b PROBLEM No. 1258. (By iIR, J. 8. liittSS, Leigh.) White.

BLACK. ! BlacK to move and win. An ending fi'tm the " CroSs" opening, DRAUGHTS CHAMPIONSHIP OF NEW ZEALAND. The piny for the J><>w Zealand flraiigld* Championship commenced "u April 1 in the Chess and Jiraughlst C'lttb's room in St. Hill-street. A preliminary meeting of player* wnSt held, when the following new rules for play for the Senior Championship were adopted: — That the Senior Tourney for I*lo4 he plated oh the two-life' system, and that it be defined thus: — That four games be played between each pair of players on the two-more ballot restriction, to be defined thus: All White replies to 12—18 rhfly ho balloted to he played, except 23—13; ail White replica to 11—IB mat be balloted to be ploy*'!, except 23—13; all White replies to 11—15 may be balloted to be played; ail White replies to 11—10 may be balloted to be played; all White replies to 10—15 may be balloted to be played; till White replies to 10—14 imv be balloted to be played, except 21—1/, and 23-13; all Willie rcplisa to o—l4 may be balloted to he plated, except 21—17 and S3—IS; all White replies to 9—13 may be balloted to be played. Both sides or pack balloted opening to be played by the players. If at the end of the first four gam*!* the players' poorer »re eijual, then four pames shall be played on the same form of restriction. If at the etui of eight Raines the playefs are edunl, then the two players' position shall be determined by ballot, one being balloted into the losers' class (and losing one life), the other rtfflaining In the winners' class. This rule to apply to ail ties in the tourney, etcept the last tie for Hip championship, when four sets of four pitmen shall be played before the ballot is resorted to. If at the end of four, eight, twelve, and sixteen games neither player has a lead, and their genres are ecjhal, then one" of them shall be balloted out a loser and one a winner.

W» loam by telegram that 'Vr. M. J. Gardiner entile out winner of the tourney with Ml*. Hilllker a'; nnijwr-uj). Ilia winner is only a voting man, about 22 roars old, ami he tins the best record a# a dfatighU-player in Sew Zealand (Biting the last fovVn or pistil tears. At the previous tourney he w,n second to Lucas (224-22), look flvft place in Hint, and th« following year played Brodie ft iiMteh of .''so S-slde, When the latter wSa beaten by 0 to Si flint 53 draft?. In J9OO lie lied with Bradlo for the' championship, and lost in the play-off. _ On i two other occasions lie was rniiner-up, Utinjf slightly behind the winners. lie is described a 1? of jj«Mal temperament find bid modesty makes liiin a favourite with the other competitors. The following is nil interesting game played in the first round, taken from the Wanganui Ohi'oniciS GAjfE Ko. C"i. Black, M luetic; White, Gardiner. 50—it 11—1'} 2— C.» IB—an IB—2o 22—23 »4_lit 2d—23 18—is anis c— 3 o—lß 11—10 2—1.1 0— it 4—3 20—2-1 31—27 25—1 So IS— !) 15— 0 IS—l3 3— G 1"—18 10—20 fi—li i—lo Hl—it 21—27 12—1!) 26—22 22— 21—35 2*.—22 22—17 23— 7—lf) 1.1—23 3—7 7—ll IS— 26—31 22—17 13— » 27— 13—10 <>—13 I<!—l3 8— 11 B—l3 "0—27 15 —10 27—31 B—ll 30-20 23-18 31-24 10— li 13— SI 12— 3 Black won after a few more moves, (at A trappy move; if White replied with 53—25, then Black would win bv 20—21. (b) The best move. (i!) Sow into a rSgfilal* " Paisley.** Our Mends harms the hehdnr-pond (says the Beds Express) have a mania for doing thlneS On a big wale. In American draughts column# we Mine limes read of some individual pUyln? 20 or mote panics by eore«pohdence. If British drauirhtsplaVm cannot ential 'till*, they can at least produce something as rjiraetdlhary; One of the Leeds players Who entered the " Temperance Cater??" tournament had an oppsuent who possessed unique notion" of cort-eip'jrldehoe. This opponent cotnKji.ii(.,>•! I'-- Sending to the townsman " 11—l"n —11. •I—B. make any replies y<r.i like." The Beetle rmri replied, foHiHiift " Old Fourteenth." tils opponent eeht half a dozen move? oh his second card with usual request. Our Leeds man again replied, ills opponent's third card contained the whole of the trunk game from "Janvier's Anderson," and the words: "('all it a draw and start again." Top tllfii. Brother Jonathan. It. is slated that out of a total o? 300 frames which " .Mazititi" played against the .p'i bill, iiieWd|t!g all the leadliitr experts, he only lost 10, a rireat performhr.ee even for Mr. Jacob, who is now understood to have been the moving spirit of Maiam.