CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13650, 18 January 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Problem No. 2403.'—" F.C.L" also sends in PxP as key but " Janu*" and " Romulus" point out (what lias escaped tliffi attention of other solver*) that if Black pia-y* Kt-ft .3, White cannot m»t«; 2 P-B 8 (=Kt) RsKt, If Q cnecks, Black Q interposes. Problem No. 2404.— by " Ale*" and "FC.b" ("beautiful key and sacrifice*"). Problem *0. , 2«».-^ 0 also by " Alex," " F.H.i"' " F.C.L.. and R.A.8." Problem "So. .2406.— also by " Alex" "y,([" ahd " I'.C.L." ("an . ingenious and pleating problem.") Problem Xo. 2407.—Solved by " Janus," " M.St.," " M.A.C.," nnd "Knight." Problem No. 240S. —Solved by "Knight" and "Janus." ' . ■ "T CL " A PP'J" to Mr. S. S. Blackburn*?, Coi 1/2, ChrUtobiirch P. 0.. who will put you in the way of obtaining a copy.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 2405. • Whits. Black. 1 li-Q 8

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 2406.

,1 Kt-Q P-B 6, 2 Kt-K KxKt or I' moves, 3 Q mates. _ . 1 -f-p-K 6, 2 Q-K 6—cither P moves, 3 Q or Kt tee.

;. , PROBLEM No. 2409. [By H. Prochazka, first, prize in the tourney Of Western Daily Mercury.) BLACK, 6.

White, 9. 8, 3KtplQl. lP4ktl. 282PK1, 2qlk3, 3R,4. 2BlpPbl, 8 Whito to play and mate in two moves.

PROBLEM No. 2410. ' (Contributed by Mr. .T. E. Hebeeht. Hamilton, N.Z. The position, appeared originally in the British Chess Magazine.) Black, 8.

White 7. 70, U613, RktsK, plB5, 2klKt3, Ib3p2, 4Ktlpl, ' ' 4kt3. White to play and mate in three move*. BERLIN JUBILEE TOURNAMENT. The score of one of the games played in above tourney; White gets the win in band, and throws away the game by a couple of weak moves: — Uuioco PIANO. White, Spielmauu; Black, 111. v. Scheve. 1 I'-K 4-P-K 4 16 P-QR 3—P-QR 4 (f) 2 Kt-KB 3—Kt-QB 3 17 P-K 6 (g)-PxP 3 B-B 4—B-H 4 18 R-Q, 7—Q-B 4 p-B 3— l'-Q 3 (a) 19 Kt-K s—Kt-QB 3 5 P-Q 4—Pxl* 20 Qxß (h)—KtxKt 6 P.xP—B-Kt 3 21 RxP(i)—Kt-Q6cll 7 Kt-83—15-Kt 5 22 K-Kt-RxP 8 B-K Kt-B 3 . 23 B-B 2—B-B 4 9 B-Kt. 3 (b)— Cashes. 24 I'-KKfc B-Kt 3 10 Q-Q 3-Q-K 2 (c) 25 H-Kt-P-B 5 11 C* ties Kt-Kt 5 (d) 26 ffccKt—l'xß 12 Q-Kt 5—P-B 4 27 K-R—R-B7 13 PK 5 (e)—Kt-K 28 Q-Kfc 3—ltt-Q 3 14 QPxPPxBP . Resigns (J) 15 B-Kt 5—Q-B 2 (a) A more simple dcfence. than 4 Kt-B 3, which leads to many complicated and difficult variations. • . (b) To prevent the intended simplification 01 the gftmo with 9 KtxKl*; 10 KtxKt — 4. etc. (c) lie could have lost, a move here (White having lost a move with his Bishop) with 1C B-KR 4, threatening B-Kt 3, with an. attack On the KP, and otherwise strengthening his King's position. , , (d) This move is the cause of all_ subsequent trouble. He could have played 11 Kt-QR 4; 12 B-B B-KR 4; followed by P-B 4, or B-Kt 3 accordingly. (e) A very pretty move, which leads to an ingenious attack. (f) The alternative would have bsen 16 Kt-B 3; 17 Kt-Q Q-Kt; only comparatively better than the actual play. . <g) Pretty and forcible. It obstructs the diagonal of Black's QB, and allows R-Q 7. (h) Jeopardising the game. 20 Ktxß, followed by Qxß, would have been good enough to win. "(i) Another weak move. R-Q 8 could have been played.. (j) For if R-Kt 6; then 29 Kt-B 5, followed by RxKtP.

END GAME. (From Chese Traps and Stratagems). Stratagem to gain the opposition and use ill the simplest way.

BLAOK. 4.

The shortest and simplest way of winning is ever the best. The. experienced player's object when he lias the better game is to break down all possible resistance. In this position the tyro mi grit laboriously push K, P, and Kt in towards White's side of board, spending: much time on it, and running chances of accidents. All he need do ifl thie:— Whitb. BLACI. 1 R-B 6 eh 2 TlxK Kt-K 4 ch 3 K-K 3 Klxß 4 KxKt j.The pawn cannot now be stopped: e.g.. 4— KB 4; 5 K-K 5-K B 5; 6 K-Q 2—K-Kt 6. When K. thus gets to sixth square of the P's file, queening (except sometimes with a R.P) is assured. It, is safest, here t» push on the K; if V were played first White might have drawing chances.

Mr. Blake Mason (of Waikato) is now staying with his people at the Lower Htitf,, where he will remain till after the Chess Congress. In order to get. good practice he has had his name put upon the ladder of the Wellington Chess Club. Mr. C. W. Tanner (ex-secretary of the NewZealand Chess Association) returned to Wellington on New Year's Day from his six months' trip to England. Mr. 13. Rutherford, who was a competitor at the last Auckland Congress, will again enter the liste at the forthcoming Easter Congress. Mr. F. A. L. Kuskop's problems in the Morning Poet (referred to last week) are commented upon with the highest approbation by the solvers of the chess problems appearing in that journal. Among the list of solvers appears the name of Mr. J. E. Herbert, tho composer of the above tliree-'er. Mr. R. J. Buckley writes as follows in the. Manchester City News:"We never smile at the mistakes of our friends. We in our time hare made mistakes. Where is the chessplayer who nan not had his fit of chess-blindness? Did not Wilhelm Steinitz print a new defence to the King's Gambit, backed by two columns of analysis, when, in the early stages, the defence was smashable by a mate in two? Did not Dr. Tarraech announce a deep, deep mate in five, when the mate could have been made on the move? And Steinitz was the world-champion for 50 years ; and Tarraech played through four great international tourneys without losing a game. Did not the 16 judges of a great international problem tourney throw out a great three-er by Kof.htz and Kockelkorn on an alleged cook, when, in reality, there was no cook at all? Did not the listing's International Committee award first prize to Professor Benyon's three-er, which was promptly cooked by a. small boy? And did not the Ciazetta Literaria. award the first prize to a t.wo-er which had no solution at all? No, no; we never smile, in the sarcastic sense, at- any Blips our friends may make. We know too much about chess. Only the novice indulges in flouts and sneers." Added to above the writer has come across a problem which wa« awarded first prize by three well-known expert judges, but it was subsequently proved to possess five different kevs! A new idea regarding time limit in tournaments is being discussed in the English press at present. Some claim Mr. Atwell to bo the inventor of the scheme, while others credit Mr. C. Y. C. Dawbam as originator of the idea. The object is tho doing away with the reckoning of twenty mores to the hour, and substitution of a scheme by means of which the player whoso clock at any time shows that, he " exceed* his opponent's time hr ten minutes shall be deemed to have forfeited bin game." It is announced that an international tournament •will be held by the Vienna CheM Club in tha spring: to celebrate the &oth anniversary of tho Emperor's icisa,