THE ZUKERTORT ROSENTHAL MATCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 24

THE ZUKERTORT ROSENTHAL MATCH.

Subjoined is the third game in this match, played on May 7th. (Double Ruy Lopez.) White. Black. Herr Zukertort. M. Rosenthal. IPtoK4 PtoK4 2 Xt to X B 3 Xt to Q B 3 3BtoKts Kttoß'3(a) 4 Xt to B 3 B to Xt 5 j 5 Castlesi Castles 6KttoQs BtoK2(&) 7PtoQ3 PtoQ3 8 Xt to X 3 Xt to Q 5 98t084 Ptoß3 10 Pto B 3 Xt takes Xt eh 11 Q takes Xt B to X 3 (c) 12BtoKt3 QtoQ2 13 Q to X 2 P to Q 4 (d) 14 P takes P P takes P 15PtoKB4 P takes P 16 R takes P B to Q 3 17 R to ß sq X R to K sq(c) 18PtoQ4(/) Qtoß2(ff) 19PtoKt3 Btoß6s) 20 R takes Kt(i) P takes R 21 Q to R 5 B to X 3 22 B takes P (j) P to B 4 (k) 23 Xt takes P B takes Xt 24 Q takes B R to X 8 eh 25 X to B 2 Q R to X sq (I) 26 B to R 6 Q R to X 7 eh 27 X to B 3 B to B sq 28 R takes R R takes R 29QtoKt4ch Ktoßsq 30 B takes B And Black resigns (m)

CHESS NOTES. (a) We prefer P to Q It 3. (b) This is almost compulsory, and being so, strengthens our opinion that it is not advisable to bring out the X Xt before playing P to R 3, as it gives Black a cramped game. (c) With the hope that White would either exchange Bishops or allow Black to do so and double his Q P, but White gracefully declined to do either. (d) Well played, as it fairly counteracts White's evidently intended move of P to X B 4. (c) Black has now decidedly the best of the position. If) White is justly afraid of the advance of Black's QP(gi) At first sight this looks very promising, but Xt to X 5 would have been more to the purpose, for if White captured the Q P, Black simply exchanges pieces and wins by Ktto Xt 6; or if White is anxious to get his Queen out of danger by playing her to B 3, Black can easily protect the Q P by playing B to B 2. In any case he would have much tho stronger position. (7i) This loses valuable time, and materially weakens Black's position. (i) A judicious sacrifice, as it exposes Black's King to a strong attack. (j) Black has lost his Q P after all. (k) It is very remarkable, but nevertheless true, that oven the very best players frequently after making one or two weak moves, go from bad to worae, and allow the game to gradually slip through their fingers. This is an instance in point. (I) Black must surely have been pushed for time or he might easily have foreseen White's next move. (in) The game abounds in interesting positions, and Colonial players ought to take conrage from it, as it clearly shows that even a first class player occasionally loses what ought to liayo been a won gauie (

STAUNTON AS A OLUBBIST. As a clubbist he was excellent in nearly every respect. He never tramped about the room, nor unduly raised his voice ; never sat by the side of any member to whom he knew his presence would not be welcome. He was a perfect looker on ; never interfered in a game during its progress ; never flaunted his superior knowledge before the public, nor touted for the suffrages of the gallery ; never unfolded a banner with a list of his victories emblazoned upon it ; and had he been in committee what he was in the general club room no more delightful companion could anywhere have been found. This opinion of him I have formed upon personal observation of his conduct, and from close study, throughout many years, of his character. Ambitious pettifoggers traduced him whilst he was alive, and have sought to blacken his memory since his death ; but he will ever be remembered as the greatest chessplayer for years of his day, and the most vigorous and entertaining of chess writers. During the period I knew him he seldom— indeed, as well as I remember, only once— played without giving odds ; and no matter what was the result of the game, he never exulted nor complained. His defeat by Anderssen in 1851 is not to be wondered at, nor should it be accepted as conclusive proof of his inferiority to that great master. He j^ at that time in bad health and unequal form. , Practice with the bestplayers is absolutely necessary to the man who would develop his strength to the utmost and cope not unsuccessfully with the acknowledged champions of the game. That practice which Anderssen had enjoyed with the distinguished constellation of high class players known as the Pleiades, in Berlin, was wanting to him, simply because, with the exception of Buckle, there was no man in England who occupied a place in tho foremost rank. A sapling planted by itself in the open air is always shunted in its growth, and, indeed, soon withers away ; it must be placed by the side of other growing trees if it is to reach its normal height, and equal or overtop the giants of the forest. But for Hannibal we might perhaps have never heard of Scipio ; Wellington would certainly never have reached the height of his grandeur without Napoleon ; and without " Field witz and Co." wliore would have been " Mars ?"— lllustrated Sporting aite Dramatic News.