Games.

Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 53

Games.

The two games which took the Brilliancy Prises at the recent Paris Tourney: — First Prize. — Mieses v. Janowski. (Score and notes from the Field.)

(a) 3 b-kt 5 or kt x p yield safe variations. The move made is unfavoiirablo to Black. (b) To get a sortie for the Queen, but, even so, the Queen is out of play on the Queen' jj faide. (c) Taking the Bishop at once would leave the a. p weak, but with the text move he weakens the pawns for castling q r. He has, however, only a choice of evils. (d) The alternative would be q-b 2; at kt 3 the Queen haa no scope whatever. (c) Had Black played Q-B 2 White could not have made the texii move, because of 14 kt x kt; 15 Q x Xt, p-h 3, with a less cramped game than actually occurred. (p) The initiation of a brilliant finish. (g) The alternative would have beeu q-b 2, but only_ to make a better fight. (ii) This beautiful move was probably overI looked by Janowski, when ho gave up the i k-kt p. From this point Black's game is lost 1 by force. | (i) If 24 rx q, then 25 P x TC, r-kl 1; 26 E. x Xt, and wins. j (j) To release the inactive Queen. Ileie is a conclusive pi oof of the initial inferiority of the ' Queen's move t

(k) Another brilliant mc\c to conclude this beautiful game. , Second Piize. — Tchigorin v. Moitimer. (Score and notes from the Mozning Post) .vrrjiM'iz's G umiT.

(a) Neglecting to play b-q b 4, a necessary move to the counter attack after the sacrifice of the kt. (b) Threatening to win the Queen by kt-k 5 eh. Black's po3ition is -still piomismg, owing to the ciamped nature of White's game. (c) ingenious though no doubt foreseen by White._ Of course, it b x r, Kt-K 5 eh, &c. (d) The position w?s cmbariassirg for Black, as White altioked the Queen,, and' also threatened to a -in the Bishop by Kt-B 6 eh. If B x Xt eh, the open file for tae White Ecok, with the pro&pecfc of the Bishop being planted at b 3, makes Slack's position too insecure. Nor is .there any draw to be forced, aftei- B x Xt eh and P x B, by kt-k 5 eh. (c) Threatening mate. (f) A fine move. If k x kt, P Queens, and tho advantage would remain with whits. (g) This leaves Black without resource. The gsme is altogether very prettily played. Chess j terns. A che=s match was played at Tiinaiu on August 13, between the fimaiu Club and the Pleasant Point Club, a team of 17 driving to Trmaru to represent the Point. Satisfactory arrangcme.us were mads by the home team fo; the ruptch, a.id also for a supper. Victoiy re=ted with the Tmiai-u Club by 16*. games to lii — Oauiaru Mail. Jfojis. Arnous de Sivieie has been authorised to organise a Louraamcnt at Monte Cailo, ai.d Senor Ya&quea Stirling pi onuses an international tournament at Havana a few months hence. Mr JSobarl Smith, the mesident of the New Sou'h Wales Chess Association, has promised 20;4 * fcr the Irat prize in the ckxinpio:i&lny> tourney, play in which is to bsgm next April. Mr Joseph E. Wright, of Trinity College, Cambiidge, who graduated a few weeks ago as senior wrangler, is distinguished as a clie-:t;-playci-, and was elected last year to the ofn-je ol president of the Cambiidge Univeisity Chess Club _ P. B. Walker, chief of the New South Wales electric telegraph department, died on Sunday, August 5, the immediate cause of his death being asthma, Aniving in Sydney in 18 13 ss a child of three, he was educated at King's School, Parramatta, ot which his father was headmps'jer. and he enteied the pi t blic seivice of -his colony more than 40 years ago. Since then he has-been identified with chess. He plt.yec! in several intercolonial matches, and on the formation, aftei the W.allacc-Esling rnitch,, of the Sydney Chess Club, ho took a picmment shaio in its management. Re was a laige-hearted lover of chess and chess players ; and his death leaves a place vacant in Sydney chess circles which it will be hard to fill. Chess m Ireland has sustained a veiy severe loss by the death of Mr E. L. Harvey, the honorary trea«iuer of the Belfast Chess Club, who wai for r 3 cvei-<i! ycais, the chess champion of Ulster, and who had competed in several ot the "Knghbh amatpiu- tourneys ot recent date. Mr Harvey was id one 'time the chess editor of the Belfast News Letter. Great interest is being taken iv Sydney chess chclcs in the progress of the games between those selected to play off for places in the New South Wales team to play by telegraph against Queensland on Prince of Wales's Birthday. La Sliategie is organising a great problem tourney, ox^en to all the world, and has opened a subscription to procure funds for the prizes. It, states that for 22 years there Ins not been a tourney of the kind of auy importance in Prance. The tourney is in honour of the exhibition, and the programme will be published as s-oon as possible. M. Albeit Clerc has accepted the presidency of the provisional committee and has himself subscribed 100 francs to the prize fund. The manager of La Strategic has also subscribed ]03 fiancs. Th" following are from the Bristol Times and Mirror : — We continually read of the mtioduction of ches-i "at the front." The uioppprs oi our favcuiite recreation there are chic / -_ the volun teors, one of whom recently pkyea a match with the president of the Kmiberley Chess Club. The "=ame" of chess has been practised by some ot the greatest warriors and generals, and it has even been supposed that it was necessary for a militaiy man to be well skilled in it. We have read somewhere that Moltke was an excellent player, but upon one occasion he met a yctmg Geiman tutor who easily defeated him. The great strategist then inquired of his conqueror whether he had been a soldiei. Upon receiving an answer in the negative he^ remarked, "It is a great pity, j'ou would, liave become a good officer of the general staff ; in tactics you are a good bit beyond me alieady." The American papers are ranking the most of Marshall's victory over Lasker. One of their siticles is headed : "An eleven-move combination won tlie ohes^ champion's knight, causing his only defeat." In the problem construction department, as well as in the practical game, our fellow-coun-trymen appear to be taking ''back septs." All the prizes in the Leisure Hour Problem Tourney, with .one exception, have fallen to foreigners. There is to be an international tourney next v;ir.ter at Monte Carlo, with 10,000 francs m piizes. Most of the masters who competed at Palis have piomised to attend. It seems a mistaken policy for the promoters of tourneys to copyright the match games. The question of charging the press for the scores is being amply discussed in the London papers, and it is pointed out that hardly a French paper noticed an event of such importance as the recent Paris tourney. Messis Longmans have iust published a memorial of the Invitation Tourney for masteis and amateurs which was played in the spring at London. The Munich tournament opened on Saturday. ..Tuiy 21 last. The entries for the Masters' Tourney include the following well-known plaveis: — Alapin, Baideleben, Berger, Burn, Janowski, Marco, Maioczy, Schlecter, and Tinsley. The death is announced of Sheriff Spans, of Crlasgcw, for many years a prominent figure m i Scottish ehes^ affairs, he having more than once been tho Scottish champion. He was highly esteem pd, both as a lawyer and a citizen. A telegraph match between the Otago and Tirnavu Chess Clubs has been airanged to lie played on Saturdays, the 15th, 22nd, and 29th hist, fourteen players a-side. Now is (he time to secure novelties for the I flower gnrden. Send at once to Nuiiio AND BiiAiß, Dunedin, for full particulars

White. Bla-k rch'gorin. Mortimer 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 K.-QB3 IQ-QB3 3 P-B 4 P x i' 4 P-Q 4 Q-R 5 eh SK-K2 P-Q 4 6' V x P B-Ki, 5 eh 7 Kt-B 3 0 0 B)'x Xt Kt-B 3-a !' Q-K I R-K 1 eh 0 K-Q 2 Q-K 4 1 Q-B 2 P,-Kts-B 12 ]J-Q 3 R-K 6 :.] lx Pnh K-Kfcl 4 lCt-K3 H-lC7eh-c V hite. Black. Tehigorin. Blortimcr. 15 QxPv • Bx Q 10 15 xB Kl-Ksch-D 17 K-Q 3 Kt-B 7 eh IS K-B 4 Q-R 5 )!' B-U3-E J'-QB4 20 Kt-0 7( h KB 2 21 BxPch-rQxB 22 Kt-QRcli KxKfc 23 Xt X Q Xt x R nP x P-'i B-R 4 25 r-Q Kt4 882 20 R-Q 1 eh K-K 1 ■i 7 B Bfi eh Resigns

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VIENKA While. Blicfe. Miesc. Janowfki. 1 P-K I P-lv 4 2KtQB3 J«-KB3 3 B'B i • B-B 4-a 4 P-Q 3 P-Q 3 SP-B4 Kt-B'.J I) P B 5 Kt-Q R 4 7 Q-B3 ]'-B J-u BP-KKt4 P-KR3 9P-KK4 P-QKt4-c 10 B-Kt 3 Xt x B 11 It Px Xt P-K R 4 12 P x P Xt x P 13 KKt-K2 QKtS-D 14 Kt-Kt.3-E ILt-B3 15 B-Kt 5 B-Kt 2 16 P-R5 Kt-K2 17 B-Q 2 OastlesQU 18 P-K 6-f P-Kt 3 (PEKING. White. Black. Mio?es. Janccw&ki. 19 O-O-O X R-Kt 1 20 P x V P x P 21 QV-Bl JCKtI 22Q87 11-Rl-G 23 Q x P Q K-Kt 1 24-Q-Kt7-n B-81-I 25Kt85 BxKt 23 H x B B-Kt 5-J 27 X KU B x Xt iSPxB Kt-B 1 29 KK-KBlKt-Kt3 30 QKB7 Pv-Q 3 :-l Q-K (5 Ki-li 5 32 lixß P x B 33QRxP (J-B4 34 1115 7 Q-Kt4 35 R-B 8-K <4-q B 4 36 QK7 ltesigLS.