CHESS.

New Zealand Mail, 22 April 1887, Page 6

CHESS.

All communications for this department must be addressed to the Chess Editor, Mr C. W, Benbow. 22/4/87 R.J.D. (Clyde).—You have gone astray in Problem No. 791, as a reference to the solution will show you. A.D.T. (Wanganui); T.E. (Picton). —The answers you suggest to Problem No. 792, though ingenious, will not answer the purpose. The position is a good and difficult one. - *** Additional correct solutions to Problems 759 and 790 have been received from ‘ Te Ika a Maui.’ SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. No. 791 (F. Heally). 1 E to E 6 1 Any move 2 Mates accordingly Solved by J.JM. (Christchurch); O.P.Q. (Foxton) * The key move is very dark (9);’ H.D. (Bulls); T. E. (Picton); D.T.C. (Blenheim) ; M.R. (Taranaki); H. B, (Wellington) ; ‘ Horace ’; C.S. (Masterton) and R. J.L. (Palmerston North). Elegantly designed and cleverly expressed (8J). No. 792 (Emil Lindquist.) 1 Kt to Kt 5 1 P x Kt 2 Q to Kt 6 2 Anymove 3 Mates accordingly. The variations are deserving of close study. Solved by M.R. (Taranaki); and O.P.Q. (Foxton). I found this extremely difficult, and it must have deserved its place in the tournament (9). ’ Much ahead of the ordinary three-mover, and its composer i 3 clearly a master-hand (9).’ PROBLEM No. 803. By J. G. J. Wainwright, (Stoneham, Mass.). From the ‘ Baltimore Sunday News.’ Black.

White. White to play and mate in two movem PROBLEM No. 804. By Dr. S. Cold, (Vienna). From the ‘ Vienna Weekly News.’ Black.

White. White to play and mate in three moves. THE VIENNA TOURNEY. Played in the first lound of the Vienna International Tourney, 10th May, 1882. The note 3 are from the Turf, Field, and Farm Irregular Opening White. Black. (Mr Ware). (Mr Weiss). 1 P to Q 4 1 P to Q 4 2 P to £ B 4 2 P to K 3 3 Kt to K B 3 3 Kt to K B 3 4 P to K 3 4 B to Q 3 5 B to Q 3 5 P to Q B 4 6 P to Q B 3 6 Q Kt to B 3. 7 Castles 7 P to Q R 3 3 B to Q 2 8 Castles 9 P to Q R 3 9 P to Q Kt 3 10 P to K R 3 10 B to Kt 2 11 B to K sq 11 Kt to K 5 12 Q Kt to Q 2 12 Kt x Kt

A poor move, only weakening his own game and aiding the adversary to develop his. Pto K B 4 would have been much more to the purpose, as it would effectually shut out White’s K B, which eventually plays an important part in the fate of the game. 13 Q x Kt 13 Kt to R 4 14 li to Q sq 14 Kt to B 5 Again Black plays very feebly. This move is sheer waste of time, which at this state of the game is too valuable to thus fritter away. 15 Q to K 2 15 Kt to R 4 16 B to R 4 1G Q to B 2 17 Kt to Kt 5 A fine move; the commencement of a beautiful and decisive combination. 17 P to K R 3 18 Q to R 5 18 Kt to B 5 Apparently in blissful ignorance of the coup White has been jdanning. B to B sq would have defeated White’s intended little scheme, though the latter has in any case a superior game. 19 Kt x K P A brilliant, and, we think, a perfectly 1 sound sacrifice, forcing a winning position, whatever Black may do. 19 P x Kt 20 Q to Kt 6 20 R to B 4 The only move; any other would lose much sooner. 21 Q x K P (ch) 21 R to B 2 22 Q to Kt 6 22 K to B sq 23 Q to R 7 23 K to K sq 24 B to Kt 6 24 K B to B sq 25 P to B 5 25 K to Q 2 He has nothing better. White threatens P to B 6, the disastrous effects of which could not be obviated by any move in Black’s power. 26 B x R 26 Kt x K P 27 B to K 6 (ch) 27 K to B 3 28 Q to Kt 6 28 B to Q 3 29 K R to K sq 29 Kt x R 30 li x Kt 30 P to B 5 Giving White an opportunity for another little ‘ gem,’ but it makes but little difference in the final result, as Black has in any cate a losing game. 31 B x P (ch) 31 K x B 32 Q to K 6 (ch) 32 IC to B 3 33 Q x P (ch) 33 K to Q 2 34 Q to K 6 (ch) 34 K to B 3 35 P to Q 5 (ch) 35 K to Kt 4 36 Q to K 2 (ch) 36 K t > R 5 37 Q to B 2 (ch) 37 Kto Kt 4 38 P to R 4 (ch) And White mates in two moves. WHERE DWELLS TBE GODDESS OF CHESS ? I. Seek for her where the exile bends his gaze On flint-cut emblems ’neath Siberian stars. Those orbs more near than aught beyond his bars Save this one Lotus-land of thoughtful maze, Where the flint spars fuse with the starry rays In wondrous kinship ; and the spirit free Finds in a frozen world a softening haze, A sweet consoling mood in misery ; Seek her within the hermit’s moss-wreathed cell, Or with the wanderer on the patient sea; In vigils, or where sorrow bends it spell, Or in the glimmering hut near where the eagles dwell. 11. Seek her by glowing hearths, where old-time friends Meet in her finer converse, rapt and sage, That bring a sparkle to the eye of age, And to the wintry years a pleasure lends ; Where eager youth his citadel defends, Girt by a foe who tempers well his zeal; Seek her in verity that never bends Where fortune blind forgets her vagrant wheel; Where lovers’ glances wander overmuch, Yet in the Delphic Pawns a fate unseal; Fair, errant hands, clasps lover ever such, That graze by knightly chance, and tremble as they touch ? 111. But not alone with captives will she stay, Nor in blest homes, nor on the weary sea ; The Goddess beams alike on bond and free, And e’en by marts keeps her contrasted sway, Though lofty walls shut out the ampler day ; You pause! though round the world she gently reigns, And lightly sings a restful roundelay. She spurns a gage save honour’s, and disdains To be to gold, or craft, or wine a thrall, Her snowy statue, poised in Reason’s fanes In airy balance, touched with dross will fall, And leave false votaries an empty pedestal. Cincinnati Commercial. J. W. Miller.