GAME.

Otago Witness, Issue 2390, 21 December 1899, Page 49

GAME.

From the London International Tournament, 1899 : —

(a) An American invention. It does not appear so safe as the routine move b-k 2. (B) If 6 P x Xt, p :: b; 7 P x P, T-kt 1; 8 Q-R 5, q-b 3. Black regains the pawn. (c) B x B to avoid doubluig the pawns looks better. (d) p-b 5 was surely preferable. (c) White now undoubles his pawns. (f) Yielding White the opportunity he desires, to exchange B for Xt, and be left with a knight against a bishop. (g) b-kt 3 would probably have drawn the game. (h) An awkward move to have to make. (r) The dominant position of this Xt decided the game in White's favour. (j) Note the ensuing moves of White's pawns. This game illustrates the modem method of winning when one side has only minor advantages. (k) This poor bishop seems hardly of any use.

(l) Threatening P-B 6 with a mating position.

(ii) The very worst square he could go to, but the game is utterly hopeless however Black plays. White has reduced the ending to a, position resembling a lost game of draughts — where one cannot move without losing.

Played recently by correspondence in the tournament of the PiUsLary National Correspondence Chess Association: —

Kirs Lopez. Bachia (Brooklyn) v. Jacobus (New York).

Notes from Bristol Times and Mirror.

(a) b-k 2 is more frequently played.

(b) B-K 4 leads to more variety

(cj q p x b usually results in an exchange of queens after White continues P x P. The variation is not ,ni all disadvantageous to Black.

(d) A very bad move; Black should have played kt-b 4, followed by kt-k 3. (c) q-k 3 seems to give Black a better chance. [?f It would have been more prudent to play k-r 1 here.

(g) To avoid the disastrous consequences of White playing Q-R 6, followed by Xt-Xt 5.

(ii) However could a player in a correspondence game overlook the obvious sacrifice of the queen leading to a mate? The only resource to prolong the game would have been q-k b 1.

I1I 1 P.K.NCH White. Blaclr. Lasker. Sliowalt-r-1 P-K 1 P-K 3 2 P-Q { p.Q 4 3 KtQB3 KNKB3 4 B-KKto B-Kts-A 5 P-K 5 P-K R 3 ti B-Q 2-k B x Kft 7P x B-c Kt-K 5 8 B-Q 3 Xt x B 9Qx Xt P-Q B 4 10 P-K B 4 Q-K 4-n 11 P-B 4-k QxQ eh 12KxQ Q P x V 13 B x P P x P 14 Kt-B3 Kt-B:5-F 15 B-Kts BQ2 IBBxKt B x B L 7 Xt x P B x I' 18 KR-KKtlB-K5 L 9 RxP K-IC2 n )cn:>CE. Wliilj. Black. La.sker. Showalter. 20K-K3 B-U'J-ii 21 QR-KKtl QPw-QBl 22 Xt-Xt 5 P-Kt :< 2.') Kt-Q6-I QR-B1 24 P-B 4 KR-Ktl 25 R x R ]} x R 2(J P-KM.4-J H-Ql i" P R 5 KB I 28 PR 4 B-R2-K £» P-K 5 R-Kt 1 30 P x P IUP 3L P-Q B 5 K-B 3 32 K-y 4 t-B 7 Xi R-0 B 1 B-Kt 6 M lt-QKtl B-Q 4 :-5 P-Bn-n B-Bfi-M 30PxP P x P . 37 K-KBI Resigns.

White. Black. Bachia. J^cobu 3 . 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 a Kt-K B 3 Kt-Q B 3 3 JJ-Kt 5 Kt-B 3 •1 O-O Xt x P 5 P-Q 4 Kt-Q 3- a 6 BxKt-B KtPxß-C 7PxP Kt-Kt2 8 Xt Q 4 P-QB 4-d 9 K.-KB3 B-K 2 10 Kt-B 3 -O-0 11 Kt-Q 5 P-Q 3 12 Xt xB eh Q x Xt White. BUck. Bachia. Jacobus. 13 JB-Kts QQ2-E 14 R-K 1 l-.Q 4 15 P-B 3 Kt-Q 1 16 Q-Q 2 Kt-K 3 17 B-B (5 P x B-F ISPxP K-tti-o 19Q-KG K-KKltl £0 Kt-K 5 QK 1 21 11-K 3 P-Q 5-H 22QxPch KxQ 23 I;.R 3 mate !