CHESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 953, 25 April 1889, Page 29

CHESS.

Solutions to problems, gumee, and analyses inTited for this column. All communications to bs addressed to th« Chun Editor.

Problem 705. By H. and B. Bettman. (From The Field.)

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[Whitb.] White to play and mate in two moves.

Chess at the British Chess Club. The following game was played in the tournament of the British Chess Club on the Bth inst. :— Pstrofj? 's Defence. White. Black. W. J. Ingoldsby. Mr Andrews. IPtoK4 P to X 4 2 Xt to X B 3 Xt to X B 3 3 Xt tks P P to Q 3 4 Xt to X B 3 Xt tks P SPtoQ4 PtoQ4 8 B to Q 3 Xt to Q B 3 7 Castles B to X 2 BPtoB4 BtoKKtS 9 P tks P (a) Q tks P 10KttoB3- Kttks Xt UPtksKt BtksKt(6) 12 Q tks B Q tks Q 13PtksQ(e) • Castles (d) 14 R to Xt sq R to Xt eg (c) 15KtoRsq(/") Pt6B4 16 R to Xt sq P to B 5 17RtoKKt4 BtoQ3 18 B to Q 2 P to Q Xt (g) 19 Q R to Xt sq P to Xt 3 20PtoKR4 KttoK2 21 P to R 5 X to Xt 2 22 P tks P . P tks P 23KtoKt2(ft) Rtoß3 - 24 P to B 4 (0 R to Xt sq 25 B to B 3 X to B sq 26 P to B 5 Xt to Q 4 27 P tks B Xt tks B 28RtoQB8q B tks P( j ) 29 R tks P eh X to.X 2 30 R tks Xt P to X Xt 4 31 RtksPcb KtoQeq ! 32 R(B4)to B 7 R tks P 33 R tks P X to X sq 34 B to Xt 5 eh (k) Resigns. NOTBS. a If 9, Xt r,o B 3. Black answers best 9...8 tks Xt ; 10 P tks B, Xt to 83, Ac. The variation chosen by Mr Ingoldsby is the better one. (6) The tendency of the Petroff being at the best a draw, it must be assumed that Black only played to achieve such a barren result, hence the exchanges of pieces. It appears that there is ample scope for a counter attack had Black avoided exchanges and played instead 11. ..Castles, to be followed by B to Q 3 ; and QtoK R4. So long as White did not disturb the B at Kfc 5 with P to X X 3. Black might have gained time for development. (c) White has now a shade the beßt of the opening. (d) Here we should have preferred 13.. .Castles, Q R, if for no other reason than to have the King nearer the Queen side in the end game. (c) 14...P to Q Xt 3 would have left the Q B available for the occupation of the Queen's file. With the Queens off the board, a Rook is too valuable a piece to defend a Fawn. ( jf ) Better seems to be 14, BtoKB4, Bto Q sq ; 15. BtoK4,Kt to R4 ; 16. RtoKts, Pto Q Kt3 ; 17. R to R 5, with a very good attack. (g) Unnecessary now, White obviously intending to double Rooks on the KKt file. 18.. .Kt to K2, and in reply to White's advance of the Q B P, Pto B 3 should have been played. (k) To enable him to capture the Xt P ; for if at once 23, B tks P, Black would reply 23...R to R Bq eh ; 24. Kto Xt 2, Xt tks B, &o. But to prevent this, White might have played 23. QRtoKt 2. . (i) The beginning of a pretty final combination, to which Black has no satisfactory reply at this advanced stage of the game. (j) Obviously Black cannot save the piece. 28...P tks P, so as to guard temporarily the X B P, would not have been any better. , >V (k) A sound game, illustrative of Mr Ingoldsby's rapid progress since the late handicap of the British Chess Club, in which he played two classes lower.