CHESS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 50

CHESS

(Conducted by A. W. O. Davies, Wellington.)

All communications for this department should .be addressed to the Chess Editor, “New Zealand Mail,*' Lambton quay, Wellington. Wednesday, September 6, 1905. The Wellington Chess Club meets ©very Tuesday and Saturday evening at 7.30 at No. 88, Manners street. Visitors are cordially invited. The South Wellington Chess and Draughts Club meets on Thursdays in the rooms behind St. Thomas’s Church, Riddiford street, .Newtown. Secretaries of New Zealand clubs are invited to send in reports and information, and we will be glad to give preference to local games, problems, or interesting positions. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 13. 1 Q—K B 8 B takes Q 2. B—B 4 mate, etc. PROBLEM NO. 14. (By Mr James Sexton, of Stratford. N.Z.) Black.

White. 8; K 4 kt 2: n 1 T> r 4; Kt r fa X Kt 3: P 2 R 4; 2 P 4 Qi 2 b 5; B 7. White to play and mate m two.

THE OSTHN3> TOURNAMENT.

The result of this tourney is to hand. After an interesting battle of twenty-six rounds, Mr Gesza Maroczy, of . Budapest, won first prize with a score which he has ©very reason to be satisfied with,. Mr Maroczy. was born in Hungary in 1870. His first appearance was at Hastings, 1895. in the minor tournament, winning first prize. Thereafter he played in master class. At Nuremburg. 189 S. he won second prize; in the London 1899 tournament he was third. In Munich, 1900, he tied with Pillsbury and Schlechter for first place. Paris in the same year he tied with Marshall for third position. At the Monte Carlo tourney of 1902 he won first prize, with Pillsbury and Janowski close on bis heels. The following year at; Monte Carlo he came second. Dr Tarrasch on this occasion being first. The next year again at Monte Carlo, Maroczy came first and now at Ctetend with the capital score of 16 wins, 7 draws, and only 3 losses. Mr Maroczy is indeed a great player. His games show profoundness of thought to a degree unattained by any other living player. Dr Tarrasch ties with Mr Janowski for second place, the former with the Bcore of 14 wins, 8 draws. 4 losses, and the latter with 15 wins, 6 draws, 5 losses. Dr Tarrasch is still a player of the first rank and his past score of four first prizes in international tournaments, with but one lost game, has never been equalled. His match with Marshall, which it is authoritatively stated has been arranged to be played at Nuremberg this month, should prove to be in his favour. He £Dr Tarrasch) scored one win and a draw against Marshall in the present tournament. Janowski was awarded a brilliancy prize for his game with Tarrasch in the first round. He has once more shown himself to be a great tournament player, and his position, 5§ games ahead of Marshall, must be a great solace to his pride. Mr 'Schlechter comes fourth with 7 wins, 17 draws, 2 losses, the feature in hia score, of course, being the great number of drawn games. Marco is fifth with 7 wins, 14 draws, 5 losses; he also has a goodly number of drawn games. Teichmann (sixth), 8 wins, 11 draws, 7 losses. Then comes Bum. Leonliardt and Marshall with a total score each of 12i. dividing honours for seventh, eighth, and ninth places. After Marshall’s splendid win in the Cambridge Springs tournament his present score must b'e disappointing to his admirers. Wolf is tenth with 12, Alapin eleventh with 11£, and Blackburn© comes twelfth with 11. It was hoped that he .would have done better, yet it was hardly to be expected considering his age) and he himself admits that so long a tournament was too great a strain. Still,hebhas the consolation of receiving a brilliaiicy prize for liis game against Marshall. Tschigorin comes thirteenth with the poor score of 6£, but this must not be taken in any way as a criterion of hii play, which is at times of a very high fcandard, and lastly comes Taubenhaus with 1 win. (that against Blackburne) and 8 draws. A pretty game played in the above tourney taken from the ’'Westminster Gazette”:—• (“French Defence.”) Teichmann. Marshall. / White. Black. iP-K 4 P—K 3 i: ' - 2 P-Q 4 P—Q 4 •''* hm : ■ 3 Kt—Q B 3 Kt—K B 3 4. B—Kt 5 B—Kt 5 —k , 5-P—K 5 P—K R 3 V 6 B—Q 2 B takes Kt 7 P takes B Kt—K 5 8 B—Q 3 Kt takes B 9 Q takes Kt P—Q B 4

10 P—K B 4 Kt—B 3 .11 Kt—B 3 Q—R 4 12 It —Q sq P —BA 13 B—K 2 Q takes R P 14 Castles Q—R 6 15 P—Kt 4 B-O 2 16 Kt—K sq P —K Kt 3 17 Kt—Kt 2 Castles Q R 18 Kt—K 3 Q—K 2 19 R—R sq K—Kt sq 20 K R—Kt sq B—B sq 21 Q—B sq Q —B 2 22 Q—R 3 P—B 3 23 B—B 3 BP takes P 24 B P takes P K R—B sq 23 B—Kt 2 R—B 5 26 P—R 3 P—K R 4 27 P—Kt 5 R—B 2 28 R—Kt 5 P—Kt 3 29 R (Kt 5) —Kt sq Kt—K 2 30 R—K B sq R takes R ch 31 R takes R Kt—B 4 32 Kt takes Kt Kt P takes Kfc 33 Q—R 2 B—Q 2 34 K—R 2 B—K eq 35 K—Kt 3 Q—K 2 36 K—B 4 P— R 4 37 P—R 4 K—R 2 38 R—Q R sq R —R sq 39 B—B 3 K—R 3 40 R —Q Kt sq Q-—Q B 2 41 R—Q R sq R—Kt sq 42 Q—R 3 P takes Kt 4 43 Q —Q 6 ch Q takes Q 44 P takes Q P —Kt 5 45 P takes P R takes P 46 K—K 5 P—B 6 47 K takes P R takes P 48 P—Kt 6 E—Q Kt 5 49 P—Kt 7 R—Kt 7 50 P—Kt 8 Q B—Q 2ch 51 K takes B R takes Q 52 B takes P Resigns Marshall played indifferently, first with 14. Q —R 6 instead of Q —R 4 and bringing her back to B 2. where she would have been better placed than at K 2 eventually, and then by neglecting to force an opening on the King’d side for a counterattack.

NOTES*. It- is curious to note, on comparing the scores in the Ostend Tournament of the four leading masters as among themselves, that they are equal; that is to say, had the tournament consisted only of Marcezy, Janowski, fir Tarrasch.. and Schiechter, each would have scored three points. “Is chess a suitable recreation for brain workers?” The question is asked, generally by a non-player, and a satisfactory reply is not quite easy to find. . ... There are varieties of brain work,, as their are varieties of chess play, and, more than all. there is the personal equation, the variety of temperament, to be considered. A game of chess which, to one may be a great mental effort will to another be merely a pleasant exercise of hia imagination. To one of the former class—especially if his desire for supremacy be remarkably strong—the game will always be more of a struggle than a recreation, and he may be well advised to find some other amusement for his leisure hours). On the other band the lover who woes Caissa lightly will find her a kind mistress, and one, moreover, whose favour does not decline with his advancing years. The truest rest is judicious change of occupation, and if the brain worker will take his chess without laborious analysis he will, in my opinion, feel refreshed by virtue of its entire contrast with the details of his ordinary vo-cation.”-—F. P. Wildman. ~ The Canterbury v. Otago telegraphic chess match resulted in favour of the latter club by 6 games to 5. The adjourned game between Messrs Wood and Edwards being drawn and the game between Messrs Amtman and Hamel was declare® * win for the latter.