DRAUGHTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1970, 22 August 1889, Page 29

DRAUGHTS.

Solutions to problems, games, nnd analyses iarltcd for this column. Games jhould bo written in flvo columns aa below, and all correspondence addressed to the Draughta Editor. OLUB MEETINGS. Ditnedin Chess and Draughts Club meets at the Coffee Palace, Moray Place, every Tuesday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. Secretary — Jos. Abernethy, Otago Witness Office, Dunedin. PROBLEM 722. By Mr D. Brodie, Dunedin. (See Game 1393 below.) [Black.]

[White.] Black to move and draw. Positions for Beginners. Solutions to the following positions will appear in three weeks from date. We will be glad to receive solutions from solvers. No. 25.— 8y J. W. Morris, in Home paper. Black on 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13. 15, 18. 20 ; White on 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 31. Black to play and win. No. 26.— 8y D. Brodie, Dunedin. Black on 5, 6, 13, Kb I, 20; White on 8, 14. Ks 4, 19, 22. Black to play and win. Draughts in Dunedin. The following interesting game was played recently between Messrs J. P. Bell, draughts editor " Zealandia," and D. Brodie. Game 1393—" Souter." Brodie's move.

Problem 722. a 29 25, 4 8, 22 17, 14 18 is often played, and though considered weak offers such opportunities for fine end-game play that we feel our readers will have much pleasure in studying one or two variations on that line.-—

\ If 25 29 -19 15 draws. 6 This move leaves White's road to draw very narrow and difficult. We are pleased to give the principal draw, which is very fine—

The position is now very critical, and seemingly utterly hopeless for White; but the late Mr M'lndoe, to whom the variation is credited, had evidently studied the advice of the great Benjamin Franklin, and looked long and hard for the small hole through which his forces could escape safely, and was rewarded as follows : —

(2) Mr William Reid of Kilmarnock wou from Mr M'lndoe at Glasgow in 1870 as follows:—

c Delays are dangerous— H 10, 6 15, 11 8 would have drawn. d Up to this point the game has proceeded according to the authorities. We consider the move in the text a loser for Black; what say our critics ? The A. D. P. goes—

This play requires very careful handling. For our own part we prefer M'Culloch's play. Instead of 12 16 he plays -

Drawn. c Any other move would lose at once. / Forced. g Again the only move; 12 16 would lose— 2s 22. 18 25, &c. A Excellent ; Black is forced to take the pieej on 9, White still retaining the man ahead. i Black's only chanco. j This move is weak, enabling Black to draw. 25 22, 18 25, 30 21, 1115, 2419, 15 24, '28 19, 23 27, 19 15, 27 32. 3 7, 32 27, 7 11, White wins. However, the move in the text leadß to a very fine crossboard endiDg, and is well worth fcha attention of our readers.

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