Otago Chess Club.

Otago Witness, Issue 2059, 10 August 1893, Page 38

Otago Chess Club.

('0 Not considered so good as 6 P x P. {>■) 6...P-Q 4 is considered the best move at this p jint. (c) 8...8-Q 2 is the correct move. White now loses time. (d) Not a good exchange. The bishop is worth more than the knight, and the exchange strengthens Black's attack, giving an open diagonal for White's Q B. (V) Q-B 2 should have been played. (/) 19...R-Kt 1 should have been played. (p) A disastrous move. B-B 2 would have pro* longed the game.

Chess Match * match between Crane and •* was begun at Sydney on A. stake of £25 and the ship of Australia are l ,<jcts of the contest. It is >. .cult to understand how a mere title acquired in open competition with players from all the Australian colonies can devolve by private arrangement with a person who never comSeted. Mr Orane is a native of [ew .South Wales. His opponent has lived for a short time in Brisbane, is said to be only 19 years of age, and has already been dubbed Champion of Queensland. He has lately removed to Sydney. The time limit is fixed at 15 moves an hour. Tuesday and Saturday evenings in every week have been fixed as the days for play, the hours being from 6.30 p.m. to 10.45 p.m. The score of the first game, taken with notes from the Auckland Weekly Newa, is subjoined. It goes little beyond the well-beaten track of the book openings. The contestants have evidently not yet warmed up to their work. Whoever first scores seven games is to be the winner, the first five draws not to count ; after five draws any others aro to reckon as half a point to each player. lluv Lopez. White. Black. (Mr Wallace ) (Mr Crane, jun.) 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-K B 3 Kt-QB3 3 B-Kt 5 Kt-B X-a 4 Castlos Xt x P-b 5 R-K 1-c Xt Q 3 6BxKt QPxßd 7 Xt x P-e B-K 2 8 Q-K 2-/ B-K 3 9P-Q3 Kt-84-ff 10Q-K4-A Q-Qsi llKt-QB3j QxQ 12 R x 0,-k Uastles Q R 13 Kt-B 3 B-B 3 14 B-Kt 5 B x B 15KtxB Kt-Q5 lb' Xt x B I Xt x Xt 17K-B1 Xt-Q5 18 R-B 1-wi X R-K 1 19R-K3-M K-Q2 Drawn game. Time : Wallace, dßmiu ; Crane, 90min. (0) The text move, or 3 P-Q R 3, is considered to be the best defence. (6) Also best. (c) 5 P-Q 4 is frequently played at this stage (d) Superior to 6 Xt P x P. (0 Much better than 7 R x P. -(/) White now threatens 9 Xt xQBP. (a) Black might easily have gone astray here —e.g., if 9 Castles, or B-B 3 ; 10 Xt x X B P, &c. The move adopted (XtB 4) is the only correct play. (h) This permits Black to free his game. (t) A natural move, but inferior to 10 Q-Q 4. 0) Because White might now have won the position by the following continuation :— ll Ktx Q B P, Q x Q, 12 P x Q, P x Xt, 13 P x Xt, B x P, 14 P-B 3, with the better game. (it) Best, as it stops Kt-Q 5. (1) The exchange of pieces seems to foreshadow the draw. (m) If 18 Et-K 2, Xt x P, 19 R-B I, RxP, and White cannot safely take the Kt. (n) Here, also, if 19 Kt-K 2, Black wins a P by 19 R x R, 20 P x R, Xt x P, &c. The probable continuation is given as under :— White. Black. 20 Kt-K 4 P-B 3 21 P-Q B 3 Kt-B 4 22 R-B 3 Kt-Q 3 23 Kt-B 5 eh K-B 1 24 R-K 1 X x R 25 Xx R RK I eh 26 R-K 3 P-QKt3 27 Kt-K 6 Kt-B 4 28 R-K 4 R-K 2 Even game. Otago Chess Club OhampionBhip. Considerable progress has been made during the past week. The principal scores now stand :— Wins. Losses. Borton, J. B. ... 6J i Cleland, H. J. ... 3fc 3i Cleland, RA. ... 12 1 Fitchett.Dr 71 'Ah Grinsted, E, P. ... 4i 4* Lyders.H Hi 81 Mellor, J. W. ... 4 2 Mouat, J 9J 2J Stenhouse, Dr ... 5 3 Throp, B 4 4 Juniors. Crump, F.C. ...15} 31 Hastings, D. H. ... 3 2 Johnston, T. ... 3 3 Sutor, J 4 4 Litolf, F 8 3 Hofland, T. ... 31 21 There arp 20 competitors in tho senior division, each is to play two games with every other. Chess Items The 1900 mover composed by Mr Babson, of Montreal, at the request of the chess editor of the New York Clipper, is gotting ready, and will shortly be published. Mr Babson is said •to be at present engaged in trying to discover leaks in ifc, so as to be certain that it will hold water when tested. It is a sort of chess monstrosity, intended for a board of 100 squares, and involving the U3O of 28 black pawns, and subject to conditions that White is, without moving a pawn, to give checkmate in 1900 moves, and that Black is not to take a white pawn which occupies his 86. It is more like a product of dreamland than a chess problem, and for fear that it may prove a nightmare to the readers of the Witness chess column, it will not be produced here. The fine problem by Mrs Baird in this issue will demand more than a few minutes' study from the ablest of our problem solvers. Herr Walbrodt has returned to Berlin without being able to arrange any other match than the one played with Delraar. Our American cousins rightly seem disinclined to encourage playing matches for heavy stakes. It is not desirablo that the glorious old pastime should in any way approximate to a prize ring. ' It is reported that the chess column in the London Times (Weekly) is to bo entrusted to tho care of Mr S. Tinsley, a i well-known English master.

Game played between a E. P. Grmsted in the Cha White. Black. (Grmsted.) (Oleland.) 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2Kt-KB3 Kt-QB3 3 B-B 4 B-B 4 4 P-Q B 3 Kt-K B 3 5 P-Q 4 PxP 6 P-K 5a Kt-K 5-6 7 P x P B-Kt 5 eh 8 Kt-Q 2-o P-Q 4 0 B-Kt 5 Castles 10 B x Ktd P x ß 11 Oastlos BKt 5 12 Xt x Kt-e P x Xt 13 Q-Kt 3 Px Xt 14 (j x B PxP )5 X x P Q-Q 4 eh 16 P-B 3 B-K 3 17 B-Kt 5 QR-Ktl Resi iles3i-s K. A, Cleland and impionship tourney. White. Black. (Grinsted.) (Oleland.) 18 Q-B3 Q-Q 2 19 K-Kt 1-/ B-tt 6 20 RB 2 R-Kt 4 218R4 K-Q4 22 R-Q 2 R-K 1 23 R-K 1 P-K R 3 24R-K3-0 P-QB4 25 R-K 4 B-B 4 26 X X 2 PxP 27 Q-B 1 R(KI)xP 28 R x R R x R 29 R-Kt 2 B-Kt 3 30 B-Kt 3 R-K 2 31 B-B 2 Q-Q 4 32P-Kt4 P-Q 6 33 B x P R-K 7 31RxR PxR iigns.