CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

f •TO CORRESPONDENTS. " F.C Ii "—We ; agree • with you as to No. 2779, but B-Kt 1 apparently also suffices. Referring to the newspaper cutting you sent us, we cave consulted our files of. exchanges, and find that the, chess editor of ' the paper from which same is taken, * when announcing the solution, •added, a note stating that the •' problem had, >by mistake, been published as a ; three-mover instead, of , a two-mover. . Hino iliac lacrymae! ; " T£n»i.''—' solutions ' of 2786, . 2783, and 2789 arc all correct. • • ' SOLUTIONS OF PROBLEMS. No. 2786 (Hawes).—l Kt-K 4. • « . ■ No. 2787 (Hawes).—l It-Kt 7—Any, , 2 Kt-B 5— Any, 3 7—Any, 4 P mates.' , ' , I ' PROBLEM No. 2790. ; , : (By J. Jcchli. From the Time!: Weekly.) ? • • ' ■' Black, 10. ■

White, 11. * 4Q3, 2RpR2Kt, pPlpbP2, P2k4, 4pktpl, 2Plplßp, 4r2K, 8. , White to play and- mate in two moves.. < .; PROBLEM No. 2791. — (A clever end-game study by H. RiKCS. l'roin the Bradford Observer.) Black, 4. .

Warn, 4. ')'■ bSKI, 6PI, «, 483, 2Kt5, 8, splp, 3k4. White to play ' and • draw. '; THE 'CARLSBAD TOURNAMENT. Teichmann gained tho first prize, 3000 kronen, with the fine > score of 18 wins to 7 losses, the losses containing 12 draws and one defeat only. The. second end third prizes, 2000 : and' 1400 kronen, were divided by Schlechter and 1 Rubinstein, with a score. of 17 each. Rotlevi, who was defeated by > Teichmann ' in his adjourned < game, but otherwise played exceedingly, well, took the fourth prize, 1000 kronen, • with a. score of 16. Other prize-winners were Marshall and ' Neimsowiuch, 15i each; Vidmar, 15; Tartakover, Leonhardt, Duras, and Alechine, , 131 each. The remaining final scores were as follows — Spielmann, 13; Perlis, 12; Cobn, Lowenfl«ch, 6uchting, 111; Burn, Salve, 11; Rabinowitsch, Kostic, Johner, 10i; Chotimirski, 10; Alapin, Fahrni,. Jaffe, B£. Additional prises .and prisemoney will be forthcoming at the prize distribution, owing to an increased income, as compared to the estimate in the programme.R. Teichmann, the winner,, although a German player, may be said to have received his principal chess education in London, where he resided for about 10 years. During that time he advanced in playing strength very considerably. He is a consistent performer, . and . always managed to make a very good show in every tournament in which he entered, being a dreaded opponetit. by the best , players, and reldom coming out below fifth and sixth in the final. This is the first time, however, that he has gained the blue ribbon of chess, though the general feeling was that he was deserving of that honour on several previous occasions. Teichmann is about 45 years of age, and now resides at Berlin.

The following game is possibly the most , important-, as well as the most interesting, played in the ' tournament — But Lopez. White, Teichmann; Black, Schlechter. / 1 P-K 4—P-K 4 14 Kt-B 5-KR-K 1 2 Kt-KB KtrQß 3 . 15 B-Kt s—Kt-Q 2 3 B-Kt 5—P-QR 3 16 B-Kt. Kt-B 1 (d) 4 B-R 4—Kt-B 3 17 B-Q 5-Kt-Kt 3 5 Cast lea—B-K 2 18 KKtxß (e) 6 R-K P-QKt 4 19 BxP ch Kxß 7 B-Kt 3P-Q. 3 20 Kt-Kt 5 K-Kt 1 8 P-B 3—Castles 21 (J-R s—KtxKt (g) 9 P-Q 3 Kt-QR 4 • 22 QxP oh—K-B 1 10 B-B 2—P-B 4 25 QxKt ch—K-Kt 1 11 QKt-0 2—q-B2 24 Q-Kt 6 (h)—Q-Q 2 ■12 Kt-B Kt-B 3 25 K-K 3—Resigns 13 Kt-K 3 B-Kt 2 (c) (a) Throughout the present tournament this quiet move has been adopted in preference to P-KR 3, followed-by P-Q 4, as played by Lauker against Turrosch (b) Slightly better than Kt-Kt 3 • - (c) This movo is inferior, as it allows Kt-B 5. It was htrdly to be foreseen that the consequences would bo so disastrous. Six moves later Black has a lost game. (d) The Kt moves seem a waste of time. (e) If QKtxß, then Bxß—Qxß, KtxQP. Position after Black's 18th move:—r3rlkl, lbqlktppp, plktp4, lppßpKl2, 4P3, 2PPIKt2, PP3PPP, R2QRIKI. (f) A brilliant sacrifice, that wins in every variation. (g) Obviously this is the only move, as there is also a mate by Q-B 7 ch. * ' ■■ (h) The concluding part of White's combination, preventing P-Itt3, which would allow black to play Q-Kt 2. The move 'is both brilliant and effective. The problem-like - threat. of r R-K 3, R-R3, R-R 8 ch,' Q-R 7 mate cannot be guarded against except by the sacrifloe of the queen. Played between the English and American repreventatives at the same tournament: — ' .PETBOFF'S DEFENCE. White, A. Burn; Black, F. J. Marshall. 1 p-K 4—P-K 4 14 R-OKt PxP 2 Kt-KB 3—Kt-KB 3 I*s BxBF—Q-B 2 . 3 KtxP—P-Q 3 16 KR 3—B-KB 4 4 Kt-KB 3—KtxP 17 Kt-Kt 5 (e>-B-Kt 3 5 P-Q P-Q 4 18 Q-K Kt-Q 2 6 B-Q3B-Q3(a) 19 B-Q Bxß 7 Castles —Castles 20 QxB — 3 8 R-K 1 —R-K 1 '21 Kt-K 4-KtxKt 9 P-B 4—P-QB 3 (c) 22 QxKt—Q-Q2 10 Ktrß KtxKt 23 R-Kl—P-KR3 11 Itxß ch —QxR 24 B-B 4—Bxß 12 —B-KKt 5 25 Qxß—Drawn 13 B-Q 2 (d)Q-Q 1 (a) B-K is an alternative with the queen's file unobstructed, and an additional piece guarding the QP, which is subject to attack by P-QB 4. (M The usual move is P-QB 4. This allows Marshall's attack with B-KKt 5, 9 PxP —P-KB 4, 30 Kt-B Kt-Q 2, etc. (c) Tho advantage of playing 8 R-K 1 before P-QB 4 is now evident, as Black has to play this defensive move. If instead Black plays B-QKt 5, then Kt-B 3, sacrificing a pawn with a distinct gain - in development. J (d) Threatening BxP Kxß, Kt-Kt 5 ch, ,etc. (e) As pointed out by Mr. Burn, capturing the rook would lose by BxP —K-Rl, Qxß— 3, BxP—Pxß, QxP with a winning attack. , (f) A correctly played game is now wound up as a draw. , ' > Tho score and notes in tho above games are from tlio Yorkshire Weekly Post. : !

In the course of its recent Continental tour the Hastings Chess Club engaged' in five matches, of which three were won, one was drawn, . and one lost. Berne was beaten by 6 to 2, Davos Plaz by 6i to 2i, and Rouen .by 8 to 0. The defeat was sustained at the end of a long, tiring railway journey at Zurich, whero tie local club scored 8 to the tourists' 2. The d'fawn match— oi each—was recorded at Paris. Ilessrs. H. G. Colo and G. E. WainwTight played first and seoond .boards alternately, and Mr. Walnwright, with the remarkable figures of four wins and oiie draw, won the prize for the best score throughout, tho toulr. Mr. Cole was alfo undefeated.— Bradford Observer. ■ I : In tho number of -possible moves chess stand* alone among gamee; and not otly is it perfectly safe to say that no living: ma* hag ever made every possible move, but it isthighly improbable that in all the centuries of the history of the game everv possible move has' been made. The different ways of playing the first four moves on each side are so numerous that if every man, woman, and child in a city of half-a-million population were to set to/ work playing them at the rate of four moves a minute, night and day, it would bo more than a year before any one would • be able to leive the chessboard.— World's Notes. t ■ ,