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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. No. 3182—Solved by " F.C.L.," C W ' Fleming. "Adequate," '" C.H.." •' DieV » ' and "R.C.S." ' Wc ** I "F.C.Li."—Thanks for letter and clipnin.'Your" solutions of Nos 3179 -and 3130 both " ■ correct, reached as toe- late for ackaowUd» - -' ment last week. ;-. ■■ "M-W."—Yoai key to No. 5183 is an mil ""'" possible move. "'rs :! "%"»; " F.K K"—Thank*. Glad yon eujovsbvS* ¥ I your holiday. —*•:.■-> F. W. Glaxier—ln No. 3118 OKI Rui. - ' f*ated by PxKt. In No. 3149. if 0-0 * fc' . K escapes via K 3 and B 2. ~* "*••-- SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 3182,. '" 'By L- N. de Tosr,.', 1 R-0 4. If 1. . . RrR. 2 KPißP—any. 3 p.pj - mates. . • - If 1 . . . BxR. 2 KtPxP— 3 P-fi 7 mate. ' If 1. . . RxRP, 2 RißP_any. 3 R-fi a mate. • If 1 . . . BPxP. 2 P-B 6. etc. PROBLEM No. 3185. (By H. A. Adamsos.) Black, 3.

White, 8. RSQI. lp2Kp2. IPNPIP2. IkBS. 8. 8, 8, 8. White to play and mate :n three moves. This problem tied with one by C. A. L. Bull for second and third prizes in. +££ Frankenstein Memorial Tourney. 1914. PROBLEM No. 3186. (By FRA-VK —From the Hampstead Express.! White (11): K on KB 7. Q on K 7 R' a „, KB 8 and K 3. Kt> on 0 8 and OR ? P's on KB K6.08 6. OKt 2, to d. OR 6. - "' in(l Black (9): K on 0 5. R's on KB 4 ~j OR 2. B's on 0 S and OKI bo, ?'. «„ - KKt 2. KB 4. 02. and OB 5 ° a lblN4. r2pQKpl. PIPIP3. s D lr ">pk4 2NIRR2. IP3P2. 3b4. ' White to play and mate in two moves. * A correspondence gime plaved in the firstclass competition of the British Chess Cot- 1 respondent Association. 191!. The score and - notes—the latter by Mr. Hammond—are taken from the Year Book of Chess. B Posziasi Opesisg. White, the Rev. F. E. Hamond: Black. - C. E. Jackman. 1 P-K 4—P-K 4 12 BxKt—Bxß 2 Kt-KB 3—Kt-QB 3 13 OR-0 I—Castles 3 P-B 3—P-O i 14 Kt-K"4ta>-lK?« 4 O-R4-PIKP 15 OR 5 b^B-03 5 KtxP— 4 16 RxOP—o-K 2 6 KtxKt— 17 R-K 3—o-0 2 7 B-B 4—o-0 2 18 OR s—o-0 1 (c) 8 P-Q 4— en p. 19 KR -K I—P-QB 4 9 Castles—BO 3 20 R-KB3tdV-BxKt V 10 B-KKt s—Kt-K 2 21 Rxß—o-0 2 11 Kt-0 2—F-KR3 22 R-B 6—Resigns fc) " ,\ (a) Kt-B 3 looks more natural hert.' threatening Kt-K 5. ;,/; (b) This proves to be 3 powerful move. - P-OB -4 is suggested as the best Teoly. where-'•■ upon might follow 16 KtxP—Q-B 3 17 Ktxß'—QxKt. 18 P-QKt. etc. White will coma"' out a pawn plus, but with bishops of opposite -■■ colour the result might be a draw. This variation explains White' 3 preference far - 14 Kt-K 4. 7T* (c). Black should have played 0-0 1 on the .'/-. previous move. It is necessary now to pre- - vent Kt-B 6 ch- ;iv?V-. . (d) White correctly presses the attack* on V the KBP rather than win the OBP. TV'S- ■ (e) Black's resignation is forced. The only 1.variation about which there can be any- ■ doubt is as follows:—22 .. . O-B 3. 23 BiPch —Rxß. 24 OxR ch—K-R 1, 25 KR-K &-Pxß. ■ 26 OxP ch. with a forced mate in seven moves. ~ ;<v?- ; I*3** ' A pretty little specimen of the Allelic Gambit, from the Year Book of Chess;—- - : White. R. Marriott; Black. G. Mills Palm*; 1 P-K 4—P-K 4 10 B-K 5 ch—Ktrßß'"i---2P-KB4—PxP 11 R-B so— B-K 2 *-"-> 3 Kt-KB 3—P-KKt 412 OK B-K so? .>V 4 P-KR4—P-Kt 5 IS Kt-0 2—Kt-B 3 *"^s 5 Kt-Kt 5—P-KR3 " 14 Castles—KtxP J "- 6 KtxP—KxKt 15 OxKP—Kt-B 3 ■ r : 7 4—P-Q i 16 B-B R-B sq : j 8 BxP— 17 BO 3—R-B 2 ; f> 9 B-B 4 K-Kt 2 -<ig White announced mate in six. ■ «'*• -■" v . ' jJj^S" Mr. Stewart,, the hon. treasurer or theAuckland Chess Club, has received a long w and very interesting letter from Mr. Thorn** - Cannon, who. as our readers will rememDer. left Auckland some months ago for the front, but was for a longr time detailed for .varxras' • military duties in GTeat Britain. Mr. . - Cannon, who is attached to the Headquarters Signallers, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, writing from " somewhere" in France, draws/ a vivid picture cf life at the front, both hi ; and put of the trenches. We give, by per-' o '- mission, some extracts:—'We are now-*--. resting after a strenuous battle, and BtiU muddy and dirty from the result of we» <" trenches. ... After a long march . , V .C we filed into the trenches at about 9.30 pjn. A battle had raged here just a day or so v previously, and the trenches we started from"' were, lam glad to say, German ones. As vn ...\:- silently filed along I could discern the dead bodies of British and German soldiers lying Vhere and there on the grass. They had fought their last fight! With a few other, headauarters signallers I was allotted a dag-. " out for the night, but the first thing we met ; at the entrance was a dead German, and, the i'" floor being _in a bloody state, we slept in , sitting positions for a few hours just as we were, fully dressed, in the trenches. The !"•;"' early hours of next morning brought us a "" fierce bombardment in the shape of ' Jack f jj Johnsons.' 'Coal-boxes,' and shrapnel. It ■*~ fell to my lot to carry despatches irotn my headquarters to another about three-quarters of a mile away, and during the performance of my duty I narrowly missed coming into contact with a few of the above-named beauties.' Indeed, one ' Massa Johnson' almost not moreshook hands with me. 1 By the way. when, they tail to accomplish that formality by a yard or two the dirty beggars only sling mud and stones at people m their immediate vicinity, and it is a very common-place occurrence out here. That ev ? nlB,: -' at 4 p.m., we advanced to the attack in conjunction with a few other bat ' talions. and I shall never forget the baptism ' of fire that we received. Soldiers who had s?en many of the fiercest engagements, even D.C.M. heroes, told me afterwards that they never encountered anything so terrible as tie bombardment of shot, shell, and bullet that made hell around us as we advanced, especially when we entered the open plain, j*? slm marched on in extended order and drove the beggars before us until we gamed our objective. I must not tell yon what that was, for fear of giving away the locality, which, as you know, the censorforbids strictly. Our casualties were considering everything, not heavy, and our bombardment must have Bounded the life out a round number of them, not to speak of our bullets. The result, of the battle was a mile cam of ground in depth and about one mile and a-half in width. We then had to. await the inevitable counter-attack. It came along at precisely the same hour next evening. I was in close touch with a very prominent officer in a communication trencn when it broke en us with all its fury- You will get a good impression of what it was like, as far as their fire was concerned, if in tancy you take up a position near a heavilyWlre i7 tele " ) h-pole and listen to ths noise °f, the wires in a storm. Such was the ter- . rible whir of bullets that came from all directions save of course, our rear. Then add to that the half-minute shock of the more-dangerous shrapnel-burst and the too often ominous ground-shaking thud of » heavy shell, and the ear-splitting crash of a howitzer, and you will have a good idea of my position during the counter-attack, which was not the hottest point. Anyway, they failed to shift us a 'bally' inch, and we. held and firmly consolidated the ground we won until were relieved two uays lat * r - .- - The chief impression that has made itself on my mind is that, after all, the actual engagement is the best part of the I > i ÜBlneS8 out here, especially when one is on the offensive, for that is really the enjoyable excitement of the whole game (Mr Cannon is an Irishman.—Ch. Ed ) The remaining part of trench lite is absolutely dull and tedious, and, oh! so wearying! An hour or two c! sleep, a biscuit or two and jam. * gulp or two of water, all in tbe 24 hours— snatch them if you get the chance—and that J? . mv brief description of the manner ot living holding a position in trenches when no attack or detence is working out—and that is more often than otherwise. The awesome part of one's life h*re is. 1 should say. the sight of dead comrades lying aoout, and. more stirring still. badly mutilated ones, with life still in them, but bevond hope, some of whom cry tor assistance all the time and in many cases cannot be speedily attended to. That, mind you. is mite natural and obvious when one takes into consideration that after a stiff engagement there are a 011 Vi CI hundred casualties in wounded. an d. likely. a-Quarter of that number of stretcher-bearers who nijy have to go over a mile to the nearest dressing station. This, too, may have to be done under cover of darkness, and even then the stretcher-bearers often get knocked over with bullets, stray and otherwise." The time for completion of the sectional Play in the Auckland Chess Club's patriotic handicap tournan.em has been extended to , Thursday. 23rd inst 1 We have received a brief le'ter from Mr. ;>; rv °- Navies. At the time of writing (October 21) he was at the S.Z. General Hospital at Cairo, where he had been con-, fined for lore than a month, after being about a week at I-emnos. Ho adds that.he has been reported unfit for further semcei and expects to be bacJi in Auckland M? 1 - i Christmas.