CHESS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1789, 20 June 1906, Page 26

CHESS.

All communications for this department should be addressed to the Chess Editor, “New Zealand Mail/’ Lambton quay, Wellington. "Wednesday, June 20, 1806. The Wellington Chess Club meets every 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, Biddiford street, Newtown. Secretaries of New Zealand clubs are invited to send in reports and information, and wo shall be glad to give preference to local games, problems, or interesting positions. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 3S. Key Move.—Q—Q 3. Black. White. A B—Kt 3 o—o 4 (chi K x P Q x P (mate). B P—Q 5 Px P (ch) K—Q 4 P—-K 4 (mate). P—R 4 P-K 4 Any 0 mates. D Kt’s P moves K—B 6 Any move. Q mates. PROBLEM NO. 39. (By Valentin Marin.) Black (Eight pieces).

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White (seven pieces?. White to play and mate in two move®.

GAMES. The following are two interesting match games from Charousek s Mb collection. The first wae played at Buda, pest in 1895, and the second in 18% m the Province:—

(“French Defence.”) White— Charousek. Black —Maroczy 1 P— K 4 1 P—K 3 2 P-Q 4 2 P-Q 4 3 Kt—Q B 3 3 Kt—K B 8 4 B—Kt 5 4 B-K 2 sßxKt 5 B x B 6 Kt—B 3 6 Castles 7 B—Q 3 7 P—B,4 8 P—K 5 8 13—K 2 9 P—K R 4 9 P—K R S IOPxP lOBiP 1L P—K Kt 4 11 Q-Kt 3 12 Q—Q 2 12 Bx P (ch) 13 Q x B 13 Q x P 14 K—Q 2 14 Kt—B 3 15 P—R 3 15 Q—Kt 3 16 Q x Q 16 P x Q 17 P—Kt 5 17 Resigns. 9. P—K R 3 is intended to prevent the well-known “Fritz” variation —B x P (cli), followed by Kt—Kt 5 (cli), etc.; but the better move to prevent it is 9. . . P—B 3. Afterwards he had a bad position, and could no more mend matters even if he had not brought the unsound sacrifice, 12. . B x P (ch). It is rather remarkable that, although a match game, it only lasted twenty-six minutes, of which Charousek took fifteen and Maroczy eleven minutes. (“Sicilian Defence.”) White—Professor Eixner. Black— Charousek. 1 T>—K 4 1 P-Q B 4 2 Kt—K B 3 2 P—K 3 6 i'—Q 4 3P x P 4 Kt x P 4 Kt— K B 3 5 Kt —Q B 3 5 B—Kt 5 6 B—Q 3 6 Kt—B 3 7 B-K 3 7 P-Q 4 8 P x P 8 Ivt- x P 9 Kt—K 2 9Kt x B 10 P x Kt 10 Q—Kt 3 -1 Q—Q 2 11 B—l 3 4 12 Kt—Q sq 12 Kt—K 4 13 Castles 13 Castles 14 Kt—Kt 3 14 P—B 4 15 K—R sq 15 B—Q -2 16 P—K 4 16 Q R—Q sq 17 Kt—B 2 17 P—B 5 13 Kt—R 5 B—K sq . ' T>_ K Kt 4 19 K IS x Kt 20 R x B 20 Kt x P .t—jxt 22! U x Kt 22 Q It—K Kt sq 22 P—B G 23 R x Kt 23 B x R si R x B 24 P—B 7 Resigns. It s bettor to play 3. Kt—B 3 previous to the advance of the Queen's Pawn, thus obviating the variation in the text, which gives Black the better game after 7. . . P—Q 4. Somewhat better would have been afterwards: 9. Kt x Kt. P x Kt; 10. B—Q 2, Q—R 4; 11. Castles, giving up temporarily a Pawn for the attack, instead of this he tried to maintain numerical equality, but at the expense of position, and the attack in Black’s bands. After having had to submit to an isolated King’s Pawn, his game was practically untenable.