OUR DRAUGHTS COLUMN

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 8292, 30 November 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUR DRAUGHTS COLUMN

We hope wxt wrtk Ji) .niiiiiini,.,-. ~j . 8 sulci, of our solving comi>f-i i;ion. ]„ ','Jl Toiinia.un: lit I'nibU'm No. 9 sjvtn', wnd in dilVi rent play 1.0 I'lio an;,hi, t -' K V j- r fl a draw. and wi' shall niiuire to .■ t iiis before we can publish tlio result' '"'' H The following shows th» position of „ J solvers to-date :—■ ""B Arthur Smith (Oamaru) ... \V. iM.rbi-s (Ucd'b.'l-t) ... ,TH T. •'M'lMierson (Wa,innate) U I". (Haktclaraiuiea) n. B W.J.W. (Oanna.ru) JjJjH Problem No. 751. H Bj- 11. D. Lyimui, U.S. H

Black mien on 9 and 13; kill); on 19 I .WJiitie men on 10 and 22 ; king on 17, 9 Black to play and win. B CRITICISM. 1 "J.C.,'' TungLtiki, •writes to the Auck],, i( ]B Herald: —Re gam® No. 469, played in '.uß Brisbane Handicap Tourney, beilnvn n ,| p B Nesworfchy and 'F. Boyle, winch as tlrnn-'n il beg to call your uittienibioii to il., •„ '■ I reality the position as left 011 the bm-j an "easy ivin for White by second fl| The following is the position:—■ "H

32 27 6 9 14 9 23 27 15 bH ' 1 6 1 5 1 5 9 14 30 2f>H 27 23 9 14 9 6 19 23 27 6 9 5 1 SI 14 10 26 2281 h 23 18 14 18 6 2 23 18 19 2iß ■9 5 1 6 1 5 10 6 2fl 9.7 Bn„ 18 14 18 22 2 6 18 14 32 2jß 516105 1 6 1 B 14 9 30 26 6 9 14 9 B 15 10 14 15 15 B 9 6 26 23 ,9 14 22 17 B 5 1 14 10 5 1 5 14 B _ 6 2 23 18 14 18 17 10 H 1 5 10 6 1 5 21 25 ■ 2 6 18 14 18 23 10 15 H 5 1 6 1 6 9 25 30 H White wins." H GAMES. ■ The following pair of slippwy yjun R war l © played in the briny ocean bwcjHß "Sturgeon' 'and "Halibut*': — JBK Irregular Opening. fIH —Halibut's move. fIH 11 15 23 19 710 26 22 JlsH 22 27 15 18 27 24 5 9 914 22 15 10 19 22 17 IM«| 25 22 11 18 24 16 18 22 15 '/H 811 19 15 2 7 25 18 6 lfl 29 25 10 19 17 10 14 23 18 A H 4 8 24 15 714 31 27a, 121(M Then 30 26, 22 31, 32 27 and Wtoe miji. |B a This made Mr Halibut vrrsggla /soiuo|H| Kelso Opening. Wm ] —Sturgeon's more. B 10 16 914 10 IS 1 6 2 2j|, 24 19 25 22 22 18 25 22 30 2!fl 15 24 11 15 15 22 14 17 37# _ 28 10 17 13' 26 10 21 14 23 1 lfl 610 15 24 714 6 9 5 O.fl f 22 17 27 20 29 25 13 6 b2l lfl I. Then 9 13, 17 14, 7 11, find Black 11-01). fl "I a Quietly paying out the line. 9 foi b Hooked, fl gii DRAUGHT [TEMS. i,7 Otat;o Draughts Club.—The annual mecl-H ing of the Otago Draughts Club was lielilfl *u on Saturday evening, November 16, vlmiH G1 there was a large attendance of jnem'jcrjfl Mr R. Caldow (vice-president) in the clnir.B T. Mr Barclay, M.H.R., was among JL bers present. The ev-ening was occupied GI a discussion on matters of finance, and liSMcat meeting had to be adjourned until tliefolJßlre lowing Saturday. On the resumption business last. Saturday, 23rd, there irißßn again a good attendance. The chairaiwHQ (Mr R. Caldow) reported on the matters held in abeyance, and tlio clectiowH Kr of office-bearers .was proceeded with, ter ing as follows : —President. Mr Miller ("IB Ell elected); vice-presidents, Messrs It. CiiMotH jiv and A. R. Barclay, M.H.R. ; secretary, MflH 01] Joseph Abernethy; treasurer, Mr fIM Howes; committee—Messrs BroadM® Marks, Rankin, Sinclair, Tvainor. TliW hearty way in which the business was <nflß -y | tered into and the determination express;® to make fhe club even more successful ifl the future than it has been in the i'» s ß augur well for the good infiuenco the eluw is likely to have in Dunedin and, imledM the whole colony. B Referring to stock analysis, tho M»ijH Chester Times says:—"We incline. {ntliHj . opinion onco expressed by Mr Joseph son, a most capable .player of tho old® - Manchester school, that the player V ; : B crams himself with 'book' play of tjiis scription just knows enough to lose." 'JH contra, I have been among ithe chcclM giants at the international matches, ana-M English and Scottish tourneys. I havcb'jß an interested partisan in a few note, and my experience is that the T tew" to whom we lesser lights look * reverence and awe are one and .ill with "book" and "stock analysis" as fc-jH they Tvill hold. I have marked tlio in some of these big contests go for a ' IK between games, and while thus take from their bulging pockets somo MB dard work from which to refresh tlieii-Wj i mory.—"Tlio Chiel," Tweeds (Mercury. |H We cull the following from the MB burg Despatch : —"Commenting on H paragraph going the rounds that a known patron of the game will I'''":® Wr Barker ■with a handsome sum to\var<ls in expense account in the event of his Scotland for a return match with Jor«* SU A. J. Heffner, in the Boston I'ost, s»« The above clipping is from the f ' l3 ' , 'j|HPoi Weekly Herald of August 3, and something out of the usual is int the use of the term "handsome,' o' lf JMpo, comies curious as to the Scotch view on HK ters of this kind. Barker allowed JWJM lOOdol for his expenses while here, »»'■ 9H was not considered an inducement. HB equivalent would be expected of fairness in a return match.' f '",;jjß standing of the matter is, if tho mate" JM ranged, Jordan will allow the same s he was given in the way of cxp« n!iC ®'JM 5 . this will be supplemented by the a of the gift of the patron menliw'tj • main question at present is : Havetn M| crs of Boston and New Enslana 111 .Ml sufficient pride in C. F. Hurkoi, flit channpion of America, to furnish tn MB 5 ful stake money? Wo have assur.ui if this is done* the expense account. |M taken care of in a substantial mannerBoston Times also prints this, mit who is editor, passes it on without co h Jordan is not likely to seek to f expense money granted him \