Chess News.

Otago Witness, Issue 1928, 2 November 1888, Page 29

Chess News.

ChoBS-plavers, said a writer in an old number of "The Cornhill Magazine,"are like coals, they burn best together, If you separate them the fire dies out. It is a great thing to get someone to begin with you find " plough up the wars together "; better still if you can get up a chesa " circle" wherever you may happen to rusticate; but wherever and whenever you meet a player stronger than yourself, be B\ire to play him at odds; and wherever and whenever you meet a player weaker than yourself, be sure to make him take odds—if you can. A marvellous and sad phase of human nature is that peoplo will persist in not accepting odd" > They call it a disgrace. Disgrace, indeed I as if the real disgrace were not in Insisting that you are abl > to do a thing which you canuot do. Show me a man that refuses odds, and I'll tell you what he is. In fact. I can tell you without having him shown. First, he isa foolish man. Sfcondly, he is a vain man. I can also tell you what he is not. He is not a chessplayer. What is more, he is never likely tc makß one. Taking odds is nee ssary to the very idea of chess. For is it not the essence, aud the soul, and the spirit of it that there should be a fight ? Smith fancies that he can give you a knight. No insult, Burely, in that The question is —is it true! The answer is—f .i\y it. If he cm. then you can have a fight. a real fight, with its glorious uneertainfcv and delicious excitement If he cannot, b>-afc it ou', of him till he has had enough of it.—Australasian. The chess championship was won by Mr Crane, of Sydney, not by Mr Charlick/ Mr Brocklebank, of Auckland, secured fourth prize. The chess match, Oamaru v. Siniatu, was contined on Friday evening, the only nuialifed games being: Lindsay v. Colonel Bichbaura,drawn; Banks y. Miuou, drawn ; and Lee v. Kennemoy, resigned in favour of Lee. Of the remaining games the Oarnam players claim Clayton v. M'AlTister, and Davis v Taylor; losing the games of Sumptor (junr, l v. Virtue, Drde Lautour v. H. Snnshall, and Sauderson v. Kiug. The games of Surapter (senr) v. Saushall, and Francis v. Hansel, were so close that they had to be referred to Mr Hookham for his adjudication, the result of which, with the openings of the different players, will be announced

at some parly date. The match on the whole was a very even one, and the Telegraph department de3erV' s thanks for its great kindness in lending the use of the wire and doing everything in its power to assist the contest.