DRAUGHTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15350, 13 January 1912, Page 3

DRAUGHTS.

COIDUCTID 8T JOi. AnRBKCTOT. hTIOO Cms.—JTi« Olajjo dull nie«(» «»*rj Baturcky evening it Swectingi, Rittray •b(«t. Viliton wflwrao PROHLKM 3909. (Author Unknown.) IBLACK.J

(WlllTl.l ■Black: 0, 10. 11, 12. White: 18, 20, 27. 5 Whito to play :u\d ilriw. A neat problem, which will please II tolvor.—Ed.

PROBLEM 3910. By h. Armstrong, Blylhdalc, 'Blici j

IWrnri.) I Mack: 1, 2, 3, 16, 31, 33, kin;; 11. Wliilo: 5, 10, 13, 18, 23, 31. Black to play and "skunk" White. H frequently happens timl in Barnes between players of widely unequal skill tho weaker playor finds himself able to do nothing morn tlun mako a single king, nnd tiio elrongor player ollcn prevent even this using accomplished. In tlie l.nllcr event the loocr is said by our cousins over Hie water to 1» " skunked."— \V. T. Call, in his " Vocabulary o[ Checker." The. solutions ol tlwce compositions ore generally obvious, bill the abovo is Fpoken of a.? one of the most ingenious devices eve: placed on tho checks board. (JAMES. AUSTKAMSIAN CHAMPIONSITIP, Tho following fine tramo was watched with more tl:»n ordinary intorost by tho spcc!.itors at tho last Auslnilnslan championship tourney, played in Dunodin. D. A. BRODIK v. P. K. HILMKEit. Game. 3188.-" Urisfol."

IWnirt.J Wliito to play. M 16.(1 a3O 3 S 7 11-if 21 7 21 2S 18 23 12 II !l H 12 fi 30 21 815 II) 12 6 U 8 Is! 14 17-j ill 10 2D 22 Diawu (Notes by Mr Hillikcr.) (A) Played lo cot on leu-known linos (u) Altar this I did not liko tho look of things, (c) Forcing matters. (D) 15 18, 22 15, 11 17, 21 11, 7 10, drawn. (K) 20 IC-(K), H 17, 21 14, II) 26, 31 22, 15 lil, B. wins. fr) 23 19, 14 17, 21 14, 10 30, 31 22, 7 10 20 IC. a 0, 10 11, 9 14, 11 7, 11 17. 7 3. 17 2G.' 27, drawn. \ (a) 19 16, 18 23. 2G 10, 8 12, 21 17, 5 0, B. wins. O (ll) 30 26, 19 16, 20 17. 21 19-d), lj n.| 16 11, 7 16, 12 23, 10 15, 23 21, 15 IS, "I is' 17 22, 18 15. drawn. (I) 12 8, 15 18, 21 19, 17 22, 8 11, 23 20, U 2, 18 22, 3 C, drawn. (j) 30 26, 22 18, 15 29, 8 6, drown. (1) 13 17, 22 13, 13 18, 13 9, 18 27, 9 6, 27 31 20 22, drawn. , BANKS v. JORDAN. Players nro always on the lookout for something worth while on tho " Edinburgh." Banks and Jordan recently had a fricudlv sitting. when tho following pair occurred. After tho gninos both players expressed tho opinion that 10 15 w<is tho strongest reply lo 22 18. Tho games nro from tho Cnmidian Chcckor Pl»yw. G3-m0^3189.—" Edinburgh."

DRAUGHTS ITKMS. B. Botting.-MT 11. Bolting, n well-known member of tho Olago Club, left Puucdin on Smidoy lor Melbuurne. Ho expects lo bo away six weeks on holiday. Wo hopo ho may find tirao and opportuniiy to try his nkiil on some o( the Victorian players, ami in general bare a peod tinK-. Tho Canadian Checker Player.—The Oe!oIvr issuo of tho C.C.P. is another fine production. Tho principal feature of tho gaws is tho continuation of tho Doran-lVOrio match games, annotated by Julius IVOrio, There is no letter way of picking up American titbits liian by julHcribhiß ior the C.C.1 1 . M. \\ Tet-tzel, Chatham. Ontario, Canada. 8a (»r annum. F. K. llilliker.-Mr Hillikcr is takmK m ozone nt the seaside at present, and enlarg ing his record a? an angler. He is alreody in n class by himself, and still going ahead It's his taking way. Tlio Late 11. Jordan.—We nro much 'llilehted to Mr Frank Dunne, Warrington, England, for a copy of the excellent picluro of tho late world's cliwnpion. which ho published at fid. Tlic photo is a true liken-xw of tho champion iu ho appeured when in nuncdin on tour. «nd Is reedy for framing, tlto mount being lOin In- Pin. An Old Board.-A Home paper .•mnoitiKes that "Tho British Museum has rcceiwl a ilranchls board found in Egypt by Professor Flinders Petri*. It il»tw '»»» " 18 ' ollrt ' l dynasty. 37GG B.c. and is the oldest specimen known." Xwcll Hanks—A contomporory »«>•?:- '•Xwvll Banks is * nice young nan. and good fortune to obtain ono or two »i»cim*!is of potten- which are quite intact. Thofe discowrics.'coupled with t' lo -' 0 ,nnii<! '" s ''»' lar excavation* in Swt'ind. ore foinowhat at \-arianeo with the theories of tliivw writers talks of visiting F.neWd. via 'Frisco. New Zea'and. and Au«tralia on tour." Tho Pocket Checker Mac»iino.-lbo PC for October last came to hand this wvek. It contains wnw inlorosting pnmes, comprising examples of 'ho lalo R. Jordan's •kill: nU> problems, etc. Addrws tho PCM., I/ock Box 5L Manchester, -N.H., I'.S.A. Tho Antiquity of tho Game-Perhaps or.o of the finite this war (191U at Iho ltoiiMn town of Corftopilnm iN'orthumlwrland), now being excavated, is Unit o; a <rraiij;hls set, consisting of a stone on which are rudely carved fouarcs and counters wlierewithto play the game. Amontr otlwr finds arv a small lronr.e statue oi Minorm. a stone ficure of Mercury in relievo aKd also the fitrure of n woman washing clothes or churning butter. Enamel brooches have also bvn nnoowred and tlie workers have had the who argue that w.i* unknown in this riMmtry nrior to tho twelfth or thirteenth centuries. Powbly the ganio in its pros/mt term i« a comparatively trodorn invention. Tlh> elements of the mrious nt dr.nieMs «re oaoh simple in therr o-ncention, »nd the evolution from ono form of nlay to the others i« an «wy matter. Tho root method of phy, which would bo deeply interesting to prosent-tUv students, is shromW in the mists, of snliqnilv. aud is probably ioit (or ever.—Yorkshire Poi*

Hlack-Hro(ii«. Wliito—Uillilcor. 11 i'l 10 II IS 1 III 12 ID p. 6 10 CI SI) 27 KI-a 25 2-J 3i 27 SO 21 k-31 2K )fS III ft 12 !l 13 10 15 111 SB I. :) ft 21 Itl 23 IK CO 2->n 27 S3 30 23 23 19 12 in )« !!l H 10 c ft 12 !1 U IS !2 18 18 15 15 « fH IB f8 24 Forming tlio following ixralion :— ftiUCK.]

Black—Banks, Whit?—Jordan. u t:i 1017 1017 fi !i :i s 22 IS 21 U 21 M 14 fi 1|. II A-l-2 IK 1 fi 13 17 7 2:1 8 11 18 14 £9 £5 28 22 27 18 10 14 10 17 , fi Hi 17 2(1 8 12 11 15 21 14 J5 21 31 22 5 1 ft li linn 1HI7 mi niGiii inn £3 lli SI 14 22 18 I 0 M 10 WW 2 0 4 8 10 21 15 18 24 19 .10 25 19 15 K i0 10 11 t; in oio n ir i2io inn 25 21 25 21 15 10 18 11 ti 2 Wliito wins. (a) Banks invariably plays 10 15 in serious niitchM. (n) Tho loeor. 21 S7 draws.-CC.P. Garao 3190.—" Edinburgh." Black-Jordan. While-Banks il 13 £2 18 II 15 8 3 ii IS 22 IK 4 8 18 II Hi 31 21 17 10 15 , »S5 7 £1 * 23 21 H 21 85 22 8 11 Si 18 31 JH 7 » ti 10 25 £2 111 14 24 III '.3 H 53 111 0 11 JO III $11M 18 24 11 16 24 £0 12 19 1H 15 27 31 18 11 111 111 21 15 2 0 24 2U 10 23 31 27 13 17 3 7 15 li> 17 18 3 7 15 II ti 10 5 !l 8 15 27 24 17 22 15 ti Drawn 18 II 19 23 IIS 1 10 7 10 SB It) 22 SO 32 28