Draughts.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6672, 25 August 1896, Page 4

Draughts.

[All Solutions, Gaines, Problems, and Items should be addressed to the Draughts Editor of the Oamaru Mail, Oamara, who will be only too pleased to answer any question (in bis power) relative to the game. Solutions will be published bi-weekly.] August 22, 1896. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. H.L.—Solutions correct. Problem No. 299. By E. Allen, Leeds. BLACK.

WHITE. Black king 3on 3 and 6 White men on 15 and 27; kon 4 White to play and win. The great J. P. Reed was puzzled over this position. CRITICISM. By J. A. and Jacob Boreham, Ardgowan, Oamaru.

WHITE. Black to move and win. The ahovf position is given to correct Mr Wm. M'Jlwrick's " YVaikiwi" play in the \Vitnes3, and is the outcome of Mr Brodie's criticism on the Boreham-Sim " Fife " game published in this column some months ago. This does not affect the draw shown by me last week : Solution: 23-26 23-24 26-30 24-20 30-26 Btack wins a Mr M'llwrick in his note c gives 5-9 or 16-20, with a draw. Result: The above wins. 8-12 a 18-14 b 19-23 27-18 10-19 15-15 19-23 26-19 16-23 32-23 15-11 7-16 20-11 26-23 11-7 23-18 JORDAN-FERRIE MATCH. The 6nal score in the match between the above was : .Jordan, 4 *ins ; Ferrie. 3 wins ; drawn games 33. Ferrie made a bad start, bat showed he is made of the right material by the close finish. In the end-play of the 35th game, when the score stood 3 to 2 in favor of Jordan, the latter with a man op proposed a draw. Ferrie, who had a strong drawing position, refused, and his opponent by masterly strategy outplayed him and won. The 39ch game was won by Ferrie, and all depended on the 40th same. Jordan, however, kept to safe lines, and drew, thus securing the title of the World's Draughts Champion by the bare majority of one win. The Leeds Mercury gives tbe following sketch of the career of Richard Jordan, the champion :—He is a native of Edinburgh, and is in bis 24th year. His draughts career has been a series of successes. In ISB9, when only in bis 17Hi year, he won the gold medal of the Edinburgh Draughts Club ; and shortly afterwards defeated Mr Porte, the Edinburgh champion by two wins to nil, and four drawn games. In 1892 he played the ever-memorable match with J. Wyllie, the celebrated " Herd Laddie," and succeeded in defeating bis world-famed opponent, in a series of 20 games, by tbe score of t-vo wins to one, and 17 drawn. His next encounter was with R. Fnwer, of Dundee, whom he defeated in a match of 20 games, with the score of six wins to two, and nine games drawn. In the 1893 Scottish Championship Tourney, he was knocked out by R. Stewart, which led to a match for LSO being arranged between the two. This came off in Jnne the same year, and re suited in a brilliant victory for Jordan, with the score : Jordan, 4 ; Stewart, 0 ; drawn games 13. Jordan did not enter the 1894 and 1895 tourneys; but he played in the International Match at London in 1894, his score totalling up level, viz. : Won, 1 ; lost, 1; drawn games, 10. At the beeinning of the present year he defeated Ferrie in the final heat of the Scottish Championship Tourney, at Glasgow. winning two games to one. and three games being drawn. That was the main factor in the arrangement of the present match, and bis second victory adds greatly to the lustre of his reputation the world over. The following is Feme's third win : 39th Game Bristol (Irregular) The game rail into the following position : Ferrie

Jordan White to play The game was continued : Black wins. GAMES. The following game was played in the match Halifax v Hull: Game 328. " Glasgow." Drawn