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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15849, 20 February 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. Nos 3100 and 3101 solved by " C H." N. H Smith, ar.d " F C.L." N. H. Smith—Welcome bark Thanks for good it- she F K K—Thanks. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 3103. (liy W. Gf-aiit i I KtCB 3 -K r. is f :» <• f.i. If 1 .PxKt. -2 K;-R 5 c — K O 5. 1 Q KKt «q mat« If " K B 1. 3 I' Kt 4 mat* i If 1.. K-0 5. •: OB 1 en—BK. a. 3 U-B 2 mate. If 1 ...K B 4. 3 OB 4 ch — K-K 3. 3 O B 7 mate. If '... .K.tiP. 2 Q-B 4 ch—K-0 4. 3 OiK •. mate. SOLUTION* OF PROBLEM No. 3101. By A G. Stubs? , 1 O B 7. PROBLEM N. 3134. 'By F I*. ALriArrEK. London — A prizewinner in the Boston Football Field. 1912.) B-ace, 7.

White. 9. 4siK, »7. IR6. S2klPpl. p6p. B4PIS, p4P2, Q7. White to play and male in two move*. PROBLEM No. 3105. (By H. Toy Gottscealx.) Black. i.

Whits. 5 8. IK6. IQLS4. 3k4. 354. 8. 2P5. 8. White to play and male in three moves. We are indebted to a friend for tie loan of a. copy of W. Mofiau's -Memorable L-11695 Games. Brilliants., and Miniatures-** It is certainly a charm me collection, and shou.d afiord endless light to players of all grades. . The total number of games i» 321 .including 11 at various odds,. They date from 1634 to 1912. and vary in length trom seven moves upwards, very few exceeding 30 in length. Needless to say, the chief feature of the shorter ones is some vital (bat cot always obvious) blunder on in« part of the loser. The footnotes ars concise, and weaknesses in the play are brought into strong relief by some of the notes taking the form of questions, such as: ( What was best?" "Is this sound?" Not goodwhy?" " Suggest a better mov ®. . and so forth, the answers being given in an appendix To ih-r student this way 01 imparting information has a distinct educational value, in that it arrests his attention and urges him to think for himself at crucial points, instead of leaning enurely on the text and the notes. In this way blunders are turned to profitable account As Mr. Moffatt says in the pre- • ace: In some of the games in this collection there are moves which are weak and lead _to disaster. Such games, in the opinion of some players, are not worth ,t nheWss -, if the wader will riimself take the trouble to discover these faults, and to indicate better lines of play. te will benefit considerably He will strengthen his play by learning to avoid danger and to tske advantage of error." Of course tho reader who reads games J 01 * 1 ?, > or entertainment will miss this benefit, oecanse he will refuse to think, and J?} either turn to the appendix at once. »{C,„? ore i, likely, , p,ss on without troubling about what might have , been. However! Tlf ni * OWII fault ana not the sudors. The games are arranged in chapters according 10 • the openings. Unfortunately there is no index. Local players will be pleased to note that the collection includes several games played in New Zealand championship tournament® We give below one of the best of the games Of course " the immortal game" (Anderssen v. 2-esentiky. 1651) and " th* evergreen lAndeTssen v. Dufresne. 1653) are there, but we have selected this one because it is °*, quite so well known, although for sustained brilliancy it is worthy to rank with mem. If it had been antecedent to the others, it would doubtless have been similarly christened. It was played in the New York International Tournament (Sixth American Congress) in 1889. between Max Weiss of \ lenna, who di-rfded first and second prizes with M. Tschigorin. and Dr. nw a j i Pollock, of London. and was awarded the special pri« of 50 dollars as the most brilliant of the tournament Stemiiz remarked: -Mr. Pollocks play t°?l £ I, } move renders this game one 01 the finest monuments of chess ingenuity and altogether it bel °?" to the list of the most brilliant games in the annals of practica.l play. The late Mr Leopold Hoffer ■■tt. ? 5 ?. edjtor i °. f the Field, said of it. The latter part is worthy to rank among ■.lie few immortal games we possess.'' Rrr Lopez. White, Weiss; Black. Pollock. 1 P K 4— P-K 4 9 0-K 2 (a)— Castles - Kt-KB 3—Kt-QB 3 10 Q-K 4-B-K 3 3 B-Kt 5— P-QR 3 11 KtxP— KtxKt 4 B-R 4—Kt-B 3 12 OxKt—Ki-Kt 5 Oi) 5 P-O 3—P-OKi 4 13 Castles <c)—KtxQP 6 B-Kt 3—B-B 4 14 Q-R5 1 '>Bxß 7 P-B 3—P-Q l 15 Pxß-H-K 1 8 PxP—KtxF 16 Kt-0 2—o K. 2 Position after Black's 16th move—Q-K2: — Black. 13.

White, 12. r3rlkl. 2plqppp. p7. lphiQ. 8, 1PP«1, IPISIPPP. BIB2RKI. 17 P-QKt4idl —Bxrchie?3 K-Kt 4 lb) —Kt-K 7 18 K-K l-OKSih J4—Kt-B I—P-Kt 3 19 P-R 3—K'xß <21 '25 Q Q 5 'i> —P-R 4 ch 20 RxQ— ch 26 K-Kt —K-F.t 2 (j> 21 K-R 2-B-Kt Bch 27 Ktxß <k>— P-B 3 ch. !22 K-Kt 3— RK6ch and mates in two. ! Notes by W Steinitz 'abridged}j ai White has attained the superior posii tier, chiefly owing to Black's 7th more, : I'-O 4. which loofens the Ki' ' •bi The soundness <->: this sacrifice is 1 Questionable. 'ci For after 13 PxKt—BxP ch. 11 K-Q 1--Qxl' ch. 15 B-Q 2. we think thai the attack against White's King could no*, be sustained •di He had no means of savins the Pawn, for if 17 Kt B .3—KtxßP. end Wh'te darn not take with "he Rook on account oi i O-K 8 ch and mate next nice. 'el Beautiful play. It will lie easily seen I that White cannot torture the two pwrs en account ot '■ he mate m t •■o move.- ;ui ] pending afterwards by Q-K 6 and Q-K a >fi The prelude to a most ingrr.s and splendidly conceived line of El'.srk ' 'gi This sacrifice of the Queen for no more , than two pieces is based on a most profound and brilliant idea, such as h..s rarely oc--1 curred in actual play. ! 'hi Best If 23 Kt-B 3- Kt K 7 ch. 24 ! K Kt 4— R K 5 ch. '25 K Kt S—BK 6 ch. 26 K B s—Kt K' 6 mate j il Very tempting, but no doubt overlooking the beautiful surprise wh'ch Black has in store His best j ay vas O R 6 j) Truly magnificent ,'ki There was actually r.o defence- If 27 O 0 7—R K I >.i. 28 K-R 4 —K-R 3. and wins If 27 OiR —1' B 3 ch. 25 KR 4—B-B 7 ch. 29 P-Kt 3- RxKtP. and White has only or.<- useless check by sacrificing the Queen, jfter which inatp_ fo'lows Kt R Kt 5 double check, or by BiKt ch if Ktxß. Our Wellington correspondent informs us thai the two-game correspondence match between the Sydney School of Arts Chess Club and the Wellington Chess Club is well on its way At one board the Sydney players have resigned a hopeless game. »nd i have complimented the.r opponents on its j conduct The hor. secretary of the Sydney j team adds " One of our bookworms points j out that this came is almost identical with | one which Zukertoii won from Steinitz in ' 18M." In the other game the position is very even. The Sydney men have twice been guilty of sending ambiguous moves, but the WeUineton'-ans hare not availed themselves of the penalty provided by the rule< for correspondence play.