CHESS IN MELBOURNE
CENTENARY CHAMPIONSHIP 4 FINAL STAGES BEING PLAYED , , , . . d (Received January 4, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Jan. 4 The eighth round of the Centenary chess championship yesterday resulted as follows: — Koshnitzky defeated Green, Fillian defeated Hynd, Purdy defeated Coultas, Condon defeated Greenfield, Theirjung defeated Crowl, Watson defeated Goldstein, Hastings defeated Lampa rter. The winners' final was won by Boyles, Australian champion, who defeated Armstrong and Egan in the semi-finals. Now he has to play the winner of the loser's final.
The losers' section" produced a discovery in W. McLaughlin (New South Wales), who battled his way through to the final, which he is now contesting with Rickard (New South Wales champion). The result is still undecided owing to draws in the last two days. The winner of the losers' class will play Boyles for tho first and second prizes, but Boyles, under the winners' two-life system, has the right to a second play-off if he is defeated in the first game. Therefore Boyles, McLaughlin and Rickard will share the first three prizes. Riley and Egan (Victoria) will divide the fourth and fifth and Armstrong and McMillan (New South Wales) will divide the sixth prize.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 9
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