PROBLEM 1192.

Otago Witness, Issue 2103, 14 June 1894, Page 38

PROBLEM 1192.

By D. A. Beodie, Dunedin.

White to play and draw.

Wyllio v. Ferric. The following arc some of the endings in the match for the championship of the world. In the fourth game the pieces were reduced to five a-sido, when W>llie blundered, and, as is usual when be does make a mistake, it was a bad one. He exchanged pieces to gain the move, but Ferric again forced man for man, and won by " first position." The following shows the ending :— Black men on 1, 5, 6, 8, 15, 20 ; White men on 13, 17, 23, 27, 28, 31. Black (Wyllio) to play— 812 15 24 6 9 110 1014 2319 £819 13 6 1713 27 24 And Wyllie shortly resigned. After having been an hour in progress the seventh game showed :— Black men on 2, 7, 10, 12, 21 ; White men on 13, 20. 28, 30, 31. Black (Ferric) to play. From this point the play became very slow, and the placers in turn were called to time nearly every move that was made. After having been contested for over an hour and a-half, a draw was declared. The following is the play from the above position— 2 6 2218 2530 1410 1923 31 2<5 16 19 22 17 25 2L 13 9 7 11 30 26 30 25 10 1 14 10 28 22 2125 1814 2114 5 1 12 16 26 22 10 15 15 Draw. In the tenth game Ferric, with White, formed the "Second Double Corner"— a game he lost to Stewart— but he must since have studied it) up. He sacrificed a piece and got it back with a strong position, working into the following ending :— BJack men on 20, 24, k 30 ; White man 22, ks on 18, 32. Black (Wyllie) to play— 30 25* 25 21 21 17 Wyllie j 22 17 17 14 14 10 resigned. I (*) If 30 26, then 32 28 wins for White. Ferric opened the llth game, as was expected,- with 10 15, and Wyllie replied with 22 17. The veteran got a fine game on, and looked as if he would make good the remark he passed at the close of the preceding game : " My score will no be naething, although Ferric is twa up." Ferric missed an easy draw and Wyllie bit by bit increased his advantage, and in an hour and a-half won the following pretty ending :— Black men on 4, 5, 9, 13, 14, k 23 ; White men on 11, ■IK, 19, 21, 22, 25, k7. White (Wyllie) to play-16 12, 26 16, 73, 16 7, 3 17, and Ferric resigned. In the thirteenth game, in which Wyllie had to play 24 19 in reply to Feme's 10 15, the veteran gave the opportunity for a trappy three-for-two which Ferric had carefully planned, and thereby lost. The following shows the "shot." The game occupied little more than 20 minutes — 1015 15 24 610 914 1115 2419 2819 2217 2522 Here Wyllie played 22 18, and Ferric took the man by 15 22; and on Wyllie playing 30 25, his opponent at once responded with 14 18. 23 14, 8 11, 25 18, 1115, and secured a winning position.