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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14375, 21 May 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

■ t \ , TO CORRESPONDENTS. •,. • y :/ - Chess. " ■ '/ Problem No.• 2635.—501ved also by "Q." » and " Popotea." . ' ' ■ . No. 2637.—501ved also by "Katie" and " Popotea". (" easy, but pretty"). No. 2638.— also by " A.R.," " ropotea," and " Q." , No. 2639.— Solved also by " Popotea" (" an old favourite, which I think has appeared- in your columns before"). No. 2640.—Solved by " M.A.C.," " Alex," and " Q." (" well constructed"). . • No. 2641.— by Q." and " Alex." ' ; ' ";■." F.A.H.," Nelson.— weeks. DRAUOnTS. Problem No. 1573.— by A. Howe. No. 1574.— by P. Morrison. No.' 1575.—Solved by A. Howe and J. Heavey. ■J. Heavey.—No. 1574 should be Black to play. ' SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 2636. Key: B-86. ■, ~,,,■' 'V . '''.- • .:' J SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 2637. 1 Kt-Kt 6—Kt-B 6, 2 Kt-K 7—any, 3 Kt mates. I—KtxP, 2 Kt-B 4 ch, etc. '.■• ;...',' I—Any, 2 Kt-Q 7 ch, and mate next move: /■ *■ ■ PROBLEM No/ 2642. /' v ', (By Karl Musil.) Black, 10.,

■ ■■ i ■ .»:'.-;',.?->' White, 6. 8, 3p3b, lktlktßlpl, 2p4p, 2B2Ktkp, 3Qlp2. 7P, :.-.... . 7K. . -:.. i White to play and mate in three moves, . NEW ZEALAND CHESS ASSOCIATION. The annual general meeting of the New Zealand Chess Association was held on May 16, in the rooms of the hon. ' secretary (Mr. A. G. Fell), Wellington. The following delegates were present .-—Messrs. J. Milesi ana J. U. W. Dalryruple (Wellington Working Men's Club), F. W. Collins (Wellington CO.), b. Mackay (Masterton C.0.), F. K. Keiliug (Auckland Working Men's Club and Kangitikei), W. E. Mason (Oamaru), H. L. James (Gisborne), A. G. Fell (Canterbury C.C.), and J. Welton (Otago CO.). Mr. Dalrymple was voted to the chair. Mr. Fell read the annual report and balancesheet for the year ended. on April 30 last. The report stated that the list, of associated clubs was exactly the same as a year ago, viz.:—Auckland, Auckland Working Men's Club, Gisborne, Masterton, Wanganui, Kangitikei, Wellington, Wellington Working Men's Club,. South Wellington, Canterbury, 'JAmaru, Ouinaru, and Otago. The twenty-third annual championship congress was held at Auckland during the Christmas-New Year holidays, when Mr. John' Mason (Wellington C.C.) won the championship of New Zealand after playing off a tie with Mr. J. C. Grierson, of Auckland, who took second prize. The third prize was won by Mr. A. W. O. Davies (Auckland), the fourth by Mr. R. J. Barnes (Wellington Workingmen's Club), the fifth was divided by Messrs. E. J. Miles, of Auckland, and H. L. James, of Wellington. Mr. Jnmes also Avon the brilliancy prize, presented by Mr. Sachs, of Auckland. Congratulations are extended to the various winners. The next congress should be held at some affiliated centre of the South Island other than Dunedin. , ~* v* ' • r ' The association's best thanks are tendered to Mr. Sachs, of Auckland, {the donor of the brilliancy prize, to the Auckland clubs and officials for their able conduct of the congress, to Messrs. Petherick, Kummer, and Pleasants (vice-presi-dents) for donations, and to the Evening Post for kindly supplying copies of reports. The balancesheet shows the association to have a small credit balance to carry forward to the incoming yf>n-. The report and balance-sheet were adopted on the motion of Mr. Kelling, whoso tribute to the work' done by Mr. Fell, as the association's execufive officer, were cordially endorsed by the delegates. .■;.:*- ---.-'' The election of officers for 1910-11 resulted as follows -.—Patron, Sir Joseph Ward; president, Hon. J. A. Millar; vice-presidents, Island Lower Division, Messrs. E. W. Petherick (Wellington), F. Kummer (Wairarapa), and O. C. Pleasants (Kangitikei); South Island Lower Division, Archdeacon Gould and A. Ellis (both of Dunedin). The election of vice-presidents for the northern half of the North Island, the northern, half of the South Island, and a third vice-president for the southern half of the South Island had to be held over till »the June quarterly meeting, no nominations having oome : ; to hand. Hon.,'secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. G. Fell (re-elected); hon. auditor, Mr. W. Mackay (re-elected). Wit regard to the next congress, Mr. - James moved that the Canterbury C.C. be written to, and asked if it is prepared to undertake the management of same, and if so, on what date? "'. The Canterbury C.C reported that its" quota to the Adjudication Board would be Messrs. Nightingale, H. M. Lund, and L. Boy Smith. Quotations were submitted for printing certificates, which it is proposed to issue to prizewinners at congress. This matter was held over till next month's quarterly .meeting.;The hon. secretary roDorted that, in response to a request received through the chess editor of the Australasian, he hail forwarded a list of the chess clubs of New Zealand for inclusion in the German Year-Book of Chess. Mr. H. L ' James suggested that the games plaved in the annual chess congresses'might be published in a cheap form. He submitted a hooklet containing the games of a recent Hungarian championship tourney, and mentioned that ft was sold in Austria for sd. The idea was approved, provided that the funds of the association would be able to stand. the cost.. Messrs. S. Mackav and .Tames were appointed a siib-committee to go into tb», matter and report-to the June meeting. -■.-, TrihuW were paid to the m»mories of Messrs. David Forsyth (Dunedin) and Thomas Sexton (Ohakune), two congress vers of note who have recently passed awav. Both were widelv known in chess , circles,, and will be f"-eatlv missed. A hearty vote of, thanks to Mr. Dalrvmplc for presiding closed the meeting. ' " AN IMMORTAL GAME. The following magnificent Evan's Gambit is from Chess Amateur. It originally appeared in the St. Petersburg Zeitung" and was reckoned by Schiffers among the immortal games:— " ' Evaks' Gambit. White, H. Clemens; Black, F. Eisenschmult. 1 P-K 4— 4 , 13 BxB(c)— Pxß 2 Kt-KB3-Kt-QB3 14 Kts;KP-Q-ti 3 3 B-B 4— 4 15 KtxKtP ch—Kß 4 P-QKt 4—BxKtP 16 Q-Kt BxP(d) 5 IW3 3-B-B 4 17 Kt-K 4-Q-Kt s(e) 6 i?n 4—PxP 18 Kt-K 6 K-K(f) 7 PxP—B-Kt 3 19 Kt-B 6 eh— 2 : 8 Ca.stlcs-P-Q 3 \ 20 Kt-Kt 5 K-B(g) 9 Kt-B 3-B-Q 2(a) ■ 21 BR 3(b)-Qxß 10' s—l'xP 22Q-K6—Kt-Q 11 K-K—KKt-K 2 23 Q-B 7 ch(i)—KtxQ 12 Kt-KKt 5-B-K 3(b) 24 Kt-K 6-mate. Notes. - .-.- \ '...■■■■' ;'■; ; (a) More usual is Kt-K 4 or B-Kt 5. (b) If Castles, White wins by Q-R5.. (c) If 13 Ktxß—rxKt, 14 BxP—BxP, and Black has the best of it. (d) Q-Kt 3 is better. " (e) Here again Q-Kt 3 is better. (f) K-B 2 had probably been better. Clemens gives -the following .variation :—lB . . . K-B 2, 19 KtiK 4)-Kt 5 , 20 KtxP ch-K-Q, 21 KttKt 5)-K 6 eh-Kt-B, 22 BR 3-Qxß, 23 Kt-QKt 5 —O moves, 24 Kt-B 5 K-Kt, 25 Kt-Q 7 ch—K-B, 26 Kt-Kt 6 ch—K-Kl, 27 Q-B 8 ch—Kt-Q 7 mate, hut this overlooks 22 ... BxPcli, followed by QxQ. (") It KxKt, 21 Q-K 6ch and mate in ' four. If K-Kt 8, 21 Q-B5 ch and mate in two. If K-Kt 2, 21 Kt-Rsch, K-81, 22 Q-B 3 ch, etc., wins. / (h) A splendid defence from the mate threatened for the last few moves. Q-Q 3 is also prevented. ...".■-« •'■. , , : j (i) Making one of the finest mates ever played. The fifth annual match between teams representing the South Wellington and Working Men's Chc«« Clubs was played on May 13. There were 21 plavers a-side, and the contest was close and keen, the Working Men's Club winning by the odd'game—ll-10. . . '.„ , A match, Bowlers v. Non-Bowlers, will be played on May 26 at the Wellington Bowling Club'B pavilion. .. / The Melbourne Leader/reports that Australian chess -lias suffered a great loss by the death, through heart failure, on April 26, of Mr. J. G. Witton, at the- age of 58. -He has been a prominent figure in Victorian chess circles for many years, and was associated ■ with the late Mr. Andrew Burns in his editorship of the chess column in the Leader. Since the death •■ of the latter, Mr. Witton had sole control, and giving greater prominence to the ; problem branch, made the column very representative of Australasian composers. • The second match played by correspondence between Victoria and South Australia has now commenced with 38 players on each side; this is an, increase of 12 players on the last matoh, in which 64 players took part. The three leading boards are—McArthur versus Steele. Belcher versus Gunderson, and Harrison versus Grant. ;' The open tournament of the Kent Congress at Bromlev was won by F. D. Yates -with a score of 74 out of 9. G. Shories was second with 7, and Thomas third, 6i- Other scores were -—Dewing, 44; Cole, 4: Brown, 4; McGuire, 4; O'Connor, 3; Fisher, 24; Louis, 2. , The /tournament for the "Scottish Championship ended in a tie between G. W. Richmond, of Edinburgh, and W. Gibson, Glasgow, who each scored 7i to -Tii A. J. Mackenzie, of Birmingham, who has held the championship for the past, two years, totalled 6 points, taking third prize. The ladies' championship of land has been won by Miss M. Mercer, of Inverness, 'Miss Crum, inveresk, being second. ' • ! If it -'"true:, that mental * activity tends 'tolongevity, cheap-playing should be classed with the healthy occupations. One -of the : correspondents of tho Chess Amateur has been scrutining the obituary notices of chess celebrities,- '.whose names have been known in the chess world during the past half-century. His ; conclusions are based - upon a hundred pretty well-known . cases., He assumes, that those who take' up chess seriously begin about the age of 18.' According to the experience tables, at the age of 18 years a : male, .has an average expectation of , living •40 years. He i finds .the average duration; amongst serious chess-players to exceed 62 years. So 'experience shows that you' may possibly add fouryears to your -expectancy 'if -you begin t chess early, play •in all the club tourneys, team matches, etc.,- and read your chess column regularly.—Aiißtralaeian v