Otago Witness Seventh Solution Tourney.

Otago Witness, Issue 2388, 7 December 1899, Page 45

Otago Witness Seventh Solution Tourney.

The competing problems in the tourney, together with, such selected thiee-move problems

as may appear during tho publication of the tourney problenii, are alone submitted for solution. The continuous system, having failed to bring forward r. sufficient number of competitors, will be discontinued, and a prize of 10s 6d to the solver who obtains tho highest number of points is offered by the Daily Times and Witness Company, and a second prize of Conicgton's or llason's (at the option of the winner) " Ele-.ntntaiy Treatise on Chess " will be given by the cheso editor to the solver who gains the next highest number of points. The conditions of the competition are: — Points — Each author's solution and every " cook " : two moves one point, three moves two points. A correct statement that a problem hps no solution counts as a solution. Criticisms by solvers are invited, and it is requested that solvers award marks to sound problems from 0 up to 10, according to their estimate of the merits of the problem. Solutions and criticisms must be completed within one week from the time problems are received by the solver, except in the case of the three competing problems already publishsd, solutions to which will be received and count if sent m b> the 14th insfc. This is done on account of the delay which has occurred in notifying the conditions. Criticisms will be subject to abridgment at the option of the chess editor. Solutions will be counted, although unaccompanied by criticisms.