CHESS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4767, 3 July 1876, Page 3

CHESS.

The following was the third and final game in the late match between Messrs. Lusk and Benbow : FRENCH DEFENCE. ■White (C. Benbow) Black (H. H. Lusk) iptoKi ° P to Q 4 2 P to Q 4 3 Kt to Q B 3 (h) 3 B to Q Kt 5 4 B to Q 3 (c) 4 At to Q B 3 (d) 6 Kt to K B 3 ? I “T v o M 6 B takes P 0 K Kt to K - (c) 7 Castles 7 Castles 8 Kt to K 2 (/) I 9KttoK Kt 3 » £' to A J \f W) 10 B takes Kt 10 Kt takes B 9 B K S S(A) 13 Kt to K 4 ISPtoKiO) mltoQO 500 10 P takes P MBtoK Bl 17 Q to Kt 3 (eh) 17 A to E sq 18 Q takes Kt IS F to Q B 4 (*-) 19 P takes B . _ And Black resigns. NOTES. (а) A safe defence, but one open to the serious objection of irksome monotony, and by its adoption we also lose the beautiful and endless combinations arising from both players moving P to K 4. (б) The old and more frequent course is 3 P takes P 3 t 4 Kt to K B 3 * At to K B 3 6 Bto Q 3 6g 4 ® Q 3 6 Castles 6 Castles 7 Kt to Q B 3 8 B to K Kt 5 8 F to K K 3 9 B to K E 4 9 B to K Kt o 19 P to K E 3 Even game Or, 7 B to K Kt 5 7 B to K Kt 5 8 Q Kt to Q 2 8 Kt to Q B 3 9 P to Q B 3 9 PtoKK 3 10 B to K E 4 IOBtoKBo 11 Q to Q B 2 11 Q to Q 3 Even game. . The present move, an invention of Herr Louis Paulsen, is, however, well worth trying for a change, and moreover deserves commendation as it to some extent relieves the opening from the dulness usually attendanfc p - g o bjectionable on account of its liberating Black’s Bishop. . , . . (d) PtoQ Bis suggested byJaenisch, and considered by to give an advantage to the second player in this way:- 4ptoQß4 5 P takes Q P 5 Q takes P C B to Q Kt 5 (ch) 68t0Q2 7 B takes B (oh) 7 Kt takes B 8 Kt to K B 3 9 Q takes P S takes Q 10 Kt takes Q 10 B takes Kt (ch) 11 P takes B, and White has a badly doubled P /™’ If 6 Kt to K B 3 7 Castles, and if Black plays 7 B takes Kt with the intention of doubling his opponent s pawns. White replies with , , „ . 8 B takes Kt, with even more powerful effect. (?) White had a twofold reason for this course. In the first place he wished to remove the Kt from the attack of the Bishop, and to carry it round to the support of his King’s side. And secondly, he wished to advance P to Q B 4, threatening, if Black did not foresee the Intention, to go on with it another step, and so imprison the Bishop, which would untimately fall a victim to the White Pawns. (a) Apparently good, and yet all that can be said of it is that it is “something between a hindrance and a he (ft) B takes Kt would not advance his game, c.g.— w 11 B takes Kt 12 P takes Kt 12 Q takes Q 13 E takes Q 13 B to Q 3 , 14 P takes P. and Black’s Pawns on the Queen s side are broken up and helpless. (i) A very weak move. Black evidently failed to see the disastrous results consequent on its adoption. O') This wins a piece by force ; there is no eseape. (it) The game was beyond redemption, but B to B 3 would certainly have been better chess.