CHESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 525, 26 August 1863, Page 6

CHESS.

. . WHITE. White to play and mate in four moves. GAME IT. Between " Novice" and "Tyro." White (Tyro) Black 1 P to X 4 lPtoKi 2 Xt to X B 3 2 Q Xt to B 3 3KBtoQBI3 X B to Q B 4 4pto Q Kb 4. • 4 15 takes QKt P 5 P to ty B 3 SKBtoQB4 6 Castles 6 P to 0 3 7 P to Q 4 7 B to Q Xt * 8 P takes P 8 P takes P 9 Q 10 Q Xt 3 9 Q to X 2 10 B to Q R 3 10 Q to X B 3 11 RtoQSq 11 Ktto KR3 12 II to Q 5 ' 12 Q to X B 5 13 KBtoQ kt & ■ 13 B takes KB P (eh) 14 X to B sq 14 P to X B 3 15 QtoQB4 15 BtoQ2 16 Q to Q 3 16 R to Q sq 17 X take B 17 KKtto Xt 5 (eh) 18 X to X 2 18 Xt takes X R f 19 Q Xt to Q 2 19 Xt to X Kts 5 20 it to Q Xc sq 20 Q to X Xt 6 21 B to Q B 6 21 W to Q Xt 3 22 X takes B 22 R takes R 23 B takes Xt 23 Q takes KKt P (eh)

: GAME V.

Between. Knight and Lady . White (Lady) . Black (Knight) l.PtoKi 1 PtoK4 2 Xt to X B 3 2 P to Q 3 3 X B to Q B 4

GAME VI.

Between Exoelsioh and Chess. White (Excelsior) Black (Chess) 1 P to X 4 1 P to X 4 2 Xt ioKB3 2 Ktto QB3 3 X B to Q B 4

{To the Editor of the Daily Times.)

Sir--The space in your columns which you have so liberally devoted to chess problems and games, is thoroughly apreciated, and affords much amusement to a large number of chess players known to myself ! throughout this and the North Island, and also, I am sure to many others, who either through want of time ■ or inclination, neglect to correspond with you on the ' su'ject, and I therefore regret that you should have > allowed'the games which have recently been played 1 by correspondence, to drop out of your columns without the usual explanatory notes on the many intei rPS!ing and intricate positions occurring in the course ; of those games. Toshowthatit is a universal practice fo furnish explanatory notes to every.pnblished g-iine, I have only to refer you to the numerous volumes ; wherein are recorded the games played by every ch^ss ' pla3rer of celebrity, and amongst thi? vast collection, • th^re is s-arcely one game to be fouad which is not I- accompanied with explanatory notes. Indeed, games published without such notes would be in many in- ' stances as unintelligible to young players, a-; the i Ssotc'i phrases in Sir Walter Scott's Novels would be i without foot notes, to one unacquainted with the '' Scottish hnguage. By the aid of notes the player's ■ attention is directed to the brilliancy or error'of a 1 particular move, which otherwise might have escaped ' his notice, and therefore it is that they, become necess sary to the young player and instructive to all who • take the trouble to stu iy the game. ■I may be permitted to add that as there is not | room for controversy on matters stricrtly relating to ■ the game of chess, I trust your columns will be closed ■ against any communications having that tendency. That there is, and always will be, jealousy and dif- • ference of opinion among chess players as to their '■ respective strength of p!ay, there caii bj no douht, bui i this feeling should not be encouraged. The object < which you, Sir, and all loyal ehe:S players have in ■ view, is. not to exalt or glorify any particular player, but generally to give a beneficial impulse tc the cause i of the game.' It should not concern us much whether " Pawn" beats " Bishop" or whether " Knight" has ■ a big-brother who can thrash "Rook" We should i rat'•«:!•, I.i ihe language ot an old friend, join like H igiilandei-s, "shouther to shouther," for tha cora- | mon good, and with minds magnanimous, meet eaea !• other in mimic warfare, and then do our best to pum- • mcl each oth^r soundly oh the bloodless battleground, • where only "smiling peace depopulates the plain." 1 ~ I am, &c, L Tyro. August 25th. 1863. .' T s f ) f s !