Chess.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 6

Chess.

All communications for this department must be addressed to the Chess Editor, Mr O. VV. Benbow. 28/11/90

SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. No 1166 (E. N. Frankenstein). 1 ICt to K 6 1 Any move 2 Mates accordingly. Solved by H.B. and J.N.H. (Wellington); M.R.. (Taranaki); O.P.Q. (Foxron. ‘Not difficult but very neat(BJ);’ T.E. (Picton); H.D. (Bulls); R.P (Gisborne). SNot at all a bad position (8);‘A. B.C. (Greytown North); and R.J.L. (Palmerston North). The composer shows his usual ingenuity in this problem (8). No 1168 (L. Bennecke). 1 Kt to B 4 IK takes Kt 2 Q to QKt 3 (ch) . 2 K takes Q 3 Kt to Q 2 mate

Solved by A. L.T. (Wanganui) ; R.P. (Gisborne) ; ‘ The sacrifices in the main variation are extremely brilliant (9^IH.D. (Bulls; M.R. (Taranaki); and R.J.L. (Palmerston North). Mr Shinkman who was the judge in the ‘Bahn Frei’ tourey pronounces this the gem of the contest (9).

PROBLEM No. 1176. By Mrs W. J. Baird (London). From ‘ The British Chess Magazine.’

Black.

White. White to play and mate in two moves.

PROBLEM No 1177. By A. H. Robbins (St Louis). From ‘ Baltimore Sunday News’’

Black

White. White to play and mate in three moves

THE INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOUR-

NAMENT.

Played in the sixth round of the Manchester Tournament, August 28th, between Mortimer and Gunsberg. Ruy Lopez White. Black. (Mr Mortimer). (Mr Gunsberg). 1 P to K 4 1 P to K 4 2 Kt to K B 3 2 Kt to Q B 3 3 B to Kt 5 3 Kt to B 3 4 Castles 4 Kt takes P 5 P to Q 4 5 B to K 2 6 Q to K 2 6 Kt to Q 3 7 B takes Kt 7 Kt P takes B 8 P takes P 8 Kt to Kt 2 9 Kt to B 3 9 Castles 10 Kt to K 4 10 P to Q 4 11 Kt to Kt 3 11 Kt to B 4 12 R to Q sq 12 P to B 4 31 Kt to Q 4 13 Q to K sq 14 P to B 4 14 Kt to K 5 15 P to B 3 15 P to B 4 16 Kt to B 3 16 P to B 3 17 B to K 3 17 Q to Kt 3 18 Kt to B sq 18 P to Q R 4 19 Q to K sq 19 R to Kt sq 20 Q R to Kt sq 20 P to B 5 21 K to R sq 21 B to R 3 22 Kt to Kt 3 22 P to R 5 23 Kt to Q 4 23 Kt to B 4 24 Q to Q 2 24 R to Kt 2 25 Q to Q B 2 25 P to R 6 26 Kt (Q 4) tks K B P 26 Kt to Q 6 27 Kt takes B (ch) 27 R takes Kt 28 Q to R 4 28 B to Kt 2 29 Q takes R P 29 P to B 4 30 P to B 5 30 Q to Q B 3 31 R takes Kt 31 P to Q 5 32 R to Q 2 32 P takes B 33 R to K 2 33 R to R sq 34 Q takes R 34 B takes Q 35 P to K 6 35 P to Kt 3 36 R to Q sq 36 P takes P 37 Kt takes P 37 R takes P 38 Pto KR3 38 K to B 2 39 R to K B sq 39 K to Kt sq 40 R to B 3 40 Q takes R 41 P takes Q 41 B takes P (ch) 42 Resigns Mortimer played the Ruy Lopez Against Gunsberg, and maintained the attack for a long time with great skil and judgment. Gunsberg attempted to create a diversion by attacking on the Queen’s side, but this rhanoeuvrg simply enabled Mortimer to win a pawn, and to obtain what appeared like a winning position. He, however incautiously captured another pawn, and his opponent immediately seized the opportunity of hemming in the white Queen. Gunsberg continued the attack with great vigour, and succeeded in winning the Queen for a Rook. A few moves later Mortimer resigned. *

Played in the seventh round of the Master’s Tournament between Gunston and Muller. The game has been sent in as competing for the £lo speciaVprize offered by the proprietors of the Manchester Examiner and Times for the best game played.

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The New York Sun of the 25th of . has a 21 column article on ’The Sni Bmbe , r Mind,’ embracing all manner of7,!w Pl ? yera lating thereto—madness, starvation and l"' amateurs, the chessplayer’s enemies. StS has been interviewed and savs tt.i ™ , Goethe’s characters describes chess as tIT-W stone’ of the intelleet-another, „ .J M A shifting.’ Steinitz calls it ‘ the gybmasiumnl the brain, and rightly states that the vice” W of inebriety and insanity alleged against P m. fessional players are purely incidental, though more noticeable’ than in other calling-ex. cept the fine arts. Many instances of the above failings are adduced ;we might make a few corrections of the Sun’s otherwise ad! mirable statistics aud observations. 8 M Staunton must have lost some important games when he avowed that the author of the History of Civilisation ’ tried to Ere himself out of an upper (his) storey at Dresden; Lowenthal, though not a star of intellectual magnitude like Labourdonnais, Morphy or Anderssen, was much too cute ever to approach starvation. Kieserizky madded but was naturally eccentric, and life in Paris aggravated the malady, but he should not have been a Po!e ; was Zukerfcort as near an imbecile as possible m his talk and behaviour? Zukertort’s brain never gave way—family ties certainly made his latter days hard, when his delicate physique failed him (by the way, Zukertort’s autopsy -revealed the not generally known fact that his brain weighed over sixty ounces, a phenomenon ; his death was immediately caused by a huge clot at the base of the brain, producing apoplexy. Zukertort played chess within twelve hours of his death). Do Vere died very young, his latter dissoluteness was not caused by chess, rather by a legacy which indirectly produced billiards, idleness, and lack of ‘an object in life.’ Mcehle’s fault, says the Sun, was ‘ sleeping on billiard tables through poverty ’ —what about the cloth, and where were the markers? Moehle is no such slouch, and is generally busy and sober, too, though he has his ups and downs when ‘ out of a job.’ Moehle has got through an immense amount of hard work and is a capable man of business. He is only 30 years of age. All great chessplayers have had their hardships, but what ‘pioneers of civilization,’ to use Mr Steinitz’s expression, havs not? Chess, iike art in the last century, is still in its pioneering stage—its professors, faults and all, are in a sense martyrs for the great future. Let them be, or alleviate their martyrdom, but don’t cry out against them, their ways and their unselfish if eccentric methods 1 The time will come.—Baltimore Sunday News. OBITUARY.

Recently, Captain Gowan, President of the Leamington Chess Club, aged 72 years. He was an enthusiastic amateur, and was a capital judge of problems.