CHESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHESS.

» — TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHESS " Tenei."—No. 2820 correctly celved. ",!.]*."Welcome! Your solution of Xo. 2313 is correct. It is probably an allusion to troutashing. " F.C '."—Thanks ; will examine; 2317-7 correct SOLVERS' REMARKS. No. 2817.—"A neatly composed problem but key easy."—F.C.L. No. 2818 (Heatheote).— Very neat, and hard to bent—a number of good trie*."—,T.P. " A flna 3-mover.. Every variation followed bv a waiting move."— , ° SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 2818. (Heathcote). ■ , ■ . K-B 2. If KB 3: 2 Kt'-B £, K-K 4: 3 Kt-Q 7 mate. If FxKt ; 2 Q-B 5, K-Q 5; 3 Q-B 4 mate. If P-B 3; 2 B-K 7. l'-B 4; 3 Q-K . 2 mate. If F-B 4; i Q-Kt 5. KxKt: 3 QIC V mate; or K-K' 6; 3 Q-B 4 mate. The ending: of (he skittle> game' at Newcastle given by us .a. fortnight ago proceeds • as follows- : —. , . ' 1 Q-Kt' 3— P-B 4 (a) : 3 BQB 4— P-QPv 3 (or B-Q 2) - ". it (If 2 Q-Kt 3, mates at ,K 3, and if 2 BiR, $ mates at Kt 5). ;■ < ~> 3 B-Q, 2 mate. • if (a) If 1 BB 4; 2QR 4 eh., K-Kt 3: Bxß, mate. ; • ; The position submitted to our readers for adjudication a fortnight ago occurred at Board 6 in a recent match between Bradford and $uddersfield. White played QxP ch, forcihgsfthe"exchange of queens, ■ neutralising: the .threatened consequence"! of Kt-B 6 eh, and .winnfog a pawn and eventually the game. It, was*' afterwards' pointed out, however, that he mißht.nnve effected a brilliant, mate in three l.v 1 Kt'-jE 7 <;h,~R or QxKt; 2 Q-Il 8 ell, K-K 2;" 3 KKB 5 mate;' or if Black. play K-K 2, instead of -diking the Kt, then 2 QxP eh, K-Q 3; 3 QxP mate. The Yorkshire Observer, from which the/above is taken, adds:—"The continuation i.;. however, not on the surface, and it is-one-, of the' disadvantages' of chess played -at. the- - rate of .24 movesper hour' that, hidden. beauties such a* this are- liable to escape detection." ,v

PROBLEM No. 2821. (By T. v 'i'AVERjrER.) . White, 8.

Black, 3 3Slb2, 4PpR*, 2p2klr, 4R2p, 7s, KZP4, 8, B2QJ, White to play and mate in two -marcs, PROBLEM No. 2822. {Br W. Geary, specially contributed.) Black 2.

White, 3.

3. 8, 8, 3p4, S3UKI, 6QI, 8, 8, White to play and mate in three move*,

BRITISH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.

I flie championship ban been decided. Our readers will remember that at the annual championship tournament held in August, under the auspices of the British Chess- Federation, Messrs, H. B. Atkins and F. D. Yates tied for premier position. It was then arranged that they should play off at Bradford during the Christmas, vacation. The match eventuated durinjr the first week of the New Tear. Mr. Atkins won three games straight off, thus retaining: the championship. This is tho seventh successive year in which he has won the championship—a record in Knjrlish chess that will probably stand for a very long period. Mr. Yates says in his chess column:— " .Mr. Atkins is well known as one of the soundest of chess players, and attention has often been drawn to the similarity between his stvle of play and that of the world's champion, Dr. Lasker. Its main feature is that which is known as the modern school of chess play, where a player strives to gradually crush his opponent by the accumulation of small advantages in his own favour rather than by some brilliant coup. -There is, however, behind all the. modern subtletics of position something: of the older school of chess, with its brilliant combinations, only in his case it- is rare that he is led into compromising l his position for th 4 sake of a brilliant move." Following is one of the games from the match, with notes (abridged) from the Yorkshire Weeklv Post:—

QrEEN'9 Pawn' Gawk. White. Hi E. Atkins. Black, F. D. Yates. 1 P-G 4-P-Q 4 25 QxQ ch-KxQ 2 P-K s—Kt-KB 3 26 BxP ch—K-Kt, 1 (h) 3 Kt-KB 3—P-K 3 27 R-K 7—R-Q 2 4 B-Q. 3—B-K 2 28 Rxß— 5 Cables— 2 29 B-KB R-B 2 (i) 6 P-QKt 3—Castle* 30 F-Q Kt-QB 4 7 B-Kt 2—PQB 4 31 P-Q R-KB 2 8 Kt-Q 2—P-Q Kt 3 32 Rxß oh—Rxß 9 Kt-K s—B-Kt 2 33 Rxß—Kxß 10 P-KB 4 (a)-Kt-K 5 34 P-Q 7—KtxP 11 P-QB 4—KtxQKt 35 BxKt—Kß 3 12 QxKt-PxBP 36 P-KB K-K 4 13 KtPxP—PxP (b) 37 B-K B-K 5 14 Kt-KB 3 38 P-Kt 4—B-Q 6 15 QR-K I—Q-B 2 39 B-B 7—P-B 4 16 I!-K 3—KR-Q 1 4" P-Kt, s—ll-Kt 8 17 KR-K 1 (c>-B-Q 3 (d,4l PR KB 4 18 R-R 3-QR-QB 1 42 KB 2—PR 5 19 Q-K 2— P-Kt 3 (c) 43 K-K 3—B-B 7 20 15-Kt 3—B-B 1 44 K-Q 4—B-Kt. 6 21 P-KB 5-B-Kt 2 (f) 45 K-B 3—B-Q 8 22 PxKP— 46 K-Kt 4—K-K 4 23 KtxKtP (g)--PxKt 47 Pit 5-Resigr.B. 24 QxP ch— 2 (a) .'White adopts an old-fashioned queen's side development, against which blade must remain for 1 a considerable time on the defensive or lie gets the inferior game. (b) KtxKt was belter. (c) A very strong move, threatening P-KB 5 (cl) Black loses too much time with this B B-KB 1 at once would have Raved a move. (c) Thin weakening move is practically forced White threatens 20 BxP ch. Ktxß: 21 Q-KR 5 ' (f) Black cannot play PxP on account of 22 BxP. R-QR 1; 23KtxKBP. KxKt; 24P0 5 and wins. , x (g) A brilliant move, winning liv force. White gets at least three pawn;, for the piece if bv any means the attack should foil. (ii) If K-B 1 White wins equallv with 27 B-ll 3 eh. K-Kt 1; 28 R-K 7, R-Q 2; 29 B-B 7 ch, and wins. ' (i) Kt-B 3 would prolong but not save the game.

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING, A special council meeting of the above association was held on Monday, 19tli hist. j u ie rooms ol tho honorary secretary (Mr. a. (i Fell) Wellington. Mr. j. U. W. " Xjalnnvple (Wellington V orkingmen's Club) wan voted to the chair. The otner delegates were 11. i,. .James (Uisborne), W. Armstrong auganui). h \\ l'etherick (Wellington), W. ,1. Harper (South" Wellington), l'.K. helling (Auckland Working-men's Cluu and Timaru). A. Gyles, tent. (VVeiTtnorn and A. G. Fell (Canterbury). v 1 '' Mr. Foil explained that, Hie .meeting was convened to consider the question of whether or not a, book of the championship congress recently played at Napier should Iks published. He hail circularised the affiliated clubs, giving them available information, and asking uiem to state how many copies they were prepared to take in the event of it. being decided to issue the book, lieplie.i were received from nearly all the affiliated clubs, ami clearly showed that there is i general desire throughout New Zealand chess circles to see a booic of the Napier. congress issued. The various communication* received indicated t%it the sale of some 220 copies of tie book could lie looked for. The matter was then fully threshed out by the delegates, it was pointed out that tho hook which was published a year ago in connection with tile Timaru congress—tho association's pioneer venture in this line— only resulted in a small loss, which was growing still entailer, seeing that the tale of this excellent production is' still going "on. i It had, of course, to be. borne in mind" that the cost of the proposed book would be slightly higher ihan that of its predecessor, as there were 67 games played at Napier, as against ■so at Tiraaru. Th-a generous offers of thivo North 1 Island enthusiasts, however, enables the association to guarantee an improved book on ' this occasion. The feeling of the delegates was that, it would be a mistake to make curtailments iii either games or annotation with a view to cutting down the expense of production, also that it would be- a mistake to print less than 200 • copies. The- chairman thought that, tho council should not be afraid of risking a small loss in the matter, especially in view of the ever- ineieasing interest which id being taken in chess in the Dominion. It. would be a pity not to "ive 1 -t. j year's experiment one mote trial. (Applause). .Mr Harper then moved " Thai, the games of (ho Napier championship congress be printed, and that Mr. H. I;. James bis asked to undertake the annotation." This was seconded by Mr 1-' K Kelling anil carried. On the motion of Mr. Fell seconded by Mr. Armstrong, Messrs. James Gyles, Dalrymple, Harne«, and the mover were appointed a sub-committee to arrange all details connected with the publication of the congress book. A rote of thanks to Mr. Dalrymple for presiding closed the meeting. .