CHESS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1628, 13 May 1903, Page 19

CHESS.

All communications for this department should be addressed to the Chess Editoi, “New Zealand Hail/' Lambton quay, Wellington. „ ' Wednesday, May 13. 1903. The Wellington Chess Club meets every Tuesday and Friday evening at , .30 at No. 21b. Willis street. Visitors are cordially welcomed.

SOLUTION TO PROBLEM No. 2363

Key move —Q to Q R 3,

PROBLEM No. 2269

(By F

A L. Kuskop, Wellington.)

Placed sixth, with “honourable mention/' in three-mover section of Brighton Society" International Tournament.)

Black

White

White to play and mate in three moves. Position:—2 B 2 Kt 2; 8; 5 p P 1; 3Kt 4; 4k3; 8; K 7; 6 Q 1.

CHESS BY CORRESPONDENCE.

We give below two brilliantly played games by correspondence. Such published play is usually more instructive to the student than cross-board chess. It should be superior because the players have so much more time in which to consider their moves, besides the opportunity to handle the pieces at will. The following specimens will well repay careful examination. Plaj'ed in the correspondence match, New York v. Pennsylvania : —■ “French." White— BlackRev P A. Younkins Prof. H. A. Keeler (P.). (N.Y.) 1 P to K 4 1 P to K 3 2 P to Q 4 2 P to Q 4 3 Kt to Q B 3 3 P takes P 4 Kt takes P 4 Kt.to KBS 5 B to K Kt 5 5 B to K 2 6 B to Q 3 6 Kt takes Kt 7 B takes B 7 Q takes B 8 B takes Kt 8 Q to Kt 5 ch (a) 9 P to B 3 9 Q takes Kt P 10 Kt to K 2 10 P to Q B 3 11 Castles 11 Kt to Q 2 12 P to K B 4 12 Kt to B 3 13 B to B 2 13 P to Q Kt 9 14 P to Q R 4 14 B to R 3 15 B to Q 3 15 B takes B 16 Q takes B 16 Q to Kt 6 (b) 17 P to B 5 17 Q to q 4 18 P takes P 18 P takes P 19 Kt to B 4 19 Q to K B 4 20 Q to B 4 (c) 20 K to Q 2 21 Q R to K sq 21 P to Q Kt 4 22 Q to Kt 3 22 Kt to K 5 23 Kt takes P 23 Q takes Kt 24 K R to K sq 24 K to Q 3 25 Q to Kt 4 ch 25 P to B 4 26 P takes P ch 26 K to B 3 27 P takes P ch 27 K to Q 4 (d) 28 Q to Q 4 mate (a) This capture involves too much time. Castles would be better play. (b) A weak move which paves the way for the adversary’s attack. (c) Well judged, as thei queen now takes charge cf the board. (d) Black's game is hopeless, and so he voluntarily performs the happy despatch.

Played in tlie Scandinavian correspondence tourney:—

"Kuy Lopez."

White. Black. A. P. Tackholm. , E. Jurgens. 1 P to K 4 1 P to K 4 2 Kt to I( B 3 2 Kt to Q B 3 3 B to It 5 3 Kt to B 3 4 Castles 4 Kt takes P 5 P to Q 4 5 Kt to Q 3 6 B takes Kt 6 Kt P takes B 7 P takes P 7 Kt to B 4 8 Q to I 2 8 B to K 2 -9 Q to K 4 9 Kt to It 5 10 Kt takes Kt 10 B takes Kt 11 P to K B 4 11 Castles 12 PtoQKt 3' ' 12 Bto K 2 (a) 13 B to Kt 2 13 P to B 3 14 Kt to Q 2 14 B to Kt 2 (b) 15 Kt to B 3 15 P to Q 4 16 P takes Pe. p. 16 B takes P 17 Q to B 4 ch 17 K to B sq 18 Kt to Q 4 18 Q to B s q 19 E to B 2 19 P to Q B 4 20 Kt to K 6 . 20 B to B 3 21 Q to K 4 (c). 21 B_to Kt 2 22 Q to B 5 22 Q to Q 2 23 Q B to K sq 23 Q B to K sq 24 K E to K 2 24 E to K 2 25 Q to Q 3 25 K R to I sq 26 Kt to B 8 (d) 26 E takes Kt 27 E takes E 27 Q to B 3 28 E (K 7) to K 2 and wins (e) (a) P to K B 4 seems safe and good, and would quickly give Black an equal position. , . (b) As pointed out in previous note, P to B 4 would be stronger. (e) White commences a powerful at(d) Clever play, which wins for force. (e) The "exchange" ahead is sufficient to ensure a win;

NOTES

Some day some student of the* game will publish a portly volume on “The Fine Art of Losing at Chess." A “chiel has been talcin' notes," and has discovered that out of every hundred games lost and won. at least 99 are won (according to the winner) most brilliantly by unquestioned play, and that the same 89 are lost (this is the loser's storv) by "sheer bad luck" or "bad light" or “unjustifiable interruption" or “a disturbing noise"—by anything, indeed, rather than bv the incapacity of the weaker man to beat the stronger. The hundredth game may be declared bv the loser to have been brilliantly won, but even the defeated in that one will be at no difficulty in explaining how he could have won had certain things happened which, unfortunately for him, did not happen—such as. for instance had the rules allowed him to make two nvnvv at once, or had certain of the voter's men been off the board instead of on !*. The curious part .is why the gentleman who plavs so boldlv and vigorously and brilliantly when he wins, always lias such terrific bad luck when. he loses. Now, fishermen are always priviletred to explain why the fish did not bite just when they were wanted to, and the sportsman with a gun is conventionally at libertv to state the reason why the birds would not wait to he shot. But surely chess players, claiming, as they do. to bo devotees of a severely intellectual game, should be rather above that sort of thing, and if they lose they should lose, a.nd let there be an eiid of the matter. If an -opponent beats you pay him and yourself the compliment of assuming that he played his> best. and therefore there will be the more credit to yourself when you beat him in the return, match. And of course you can beat him; for if you can’t, all the excuse and reason possible to invent will be so much flummery. A Game Ending.—The following neat device was published by Vortruba in 18S8. It illustrates the dangers of a confined King:—White—KKß 5; P’sKR 3, K Kt 5. Black—KKß 4; P'sjKß 3. KR 5, KB 2 and 3. White to play and win.

Mr Davies, who has recently joined the Wellington Chess Club,’ has the reputation of being tfie only player to win from Lasker on the occasion when the latter was playing twenty-two members of the London Polytechnic simultaneously.

At the annual meeting of the Oamaru Chess Club, held on April 23, the annual report showed that the only match of the sea so-n was played bn May 24 at Waimate against a South Canterbury team, which xesulted in a win for Oamaru. The trophy presented by Mr W.T3. King was won by Mr Adair. A correspondence game was carried on with the Otago Chess Club, which is still incomplete twenty-three moves a-side having bee-n played. Reference was made to the departure of Mr W. S. King, and an acknowledgment expressed of the valuable services he had rendered the club as its captain for several years, in coaching players and in various other ways. Officers for the year were elected as follows:—President, Mr C. Banks; captain. Archdeacon Gould; ho-norary secretary and treasurer, Mr E. T. Earl; committee. Dr Garland. Messrs H. Mowbray and J. H. Rice and the officers. Mr W. S. King (late captain) was elected a life memeber. It was decided that the ladder competition be reinstituted, an odds tournament to be carried on at the same time.

Mr Samuel Tinsley, of Lewisham, died suddenly on February 27th of heart failure, at tne age of fifty-six (sayj the London “Times”). Mr Tinsley was speaking at a meeting in, connection with the Lewisham road Baptist Chapei._in the work of which he was interested, ne concluded his remarks. sat down, slipped from his chair to the floor, and died in the vestry almost immediately after removal, without regaining consciousness. Mr Tinsley came up to London from Bhenley, in Hertfordshire, when quite a boy. was employed at Hookham'g Library, in Bond street, and then by his brothers, Edward and William Tinsley, otherwise Tinsley Brothers, publishers. Later on Mr Tinsley started publishing on, his own account as "Samuel Tinsley and _ Co.” iq Southampton street, Strand. He was from his early publishing days an enthusiastic chess player, and devoted much attention to the game at the period when Steinitz, Zukertort, Blackburne, Bird, Hoffer and other great players made a chess centre of Simpson's Dtvan, in the Strand. The business of Messrs Samuel Tin&l>* v »nd Co. being taken over by Messrs F. V. White and Co., Mr Tinsley devoted himself to chess play professionally, and was prize-winner at Manchester and Hastings. He also defeated Muller by seven games to none. For several years he conducted with thoroughness and energy the chess news of the “Times.”