Chess Items.

Otago Witness, Issue 2428, 26 September 1900, Page 56

Chess Items.

Mr R. A. Cleland, of Dunedin, was the adjudicator of the unfinished games in the recent Oamaru-Christchurch match. The northern city, as we anticipated, secured a victory, the final result being : Christchurch , 7J ; Oamaru, SJ. At the first 10 boards Oamaru was a game to the good. At the School of Arts C.C. Mr J. K. Christenson won the club championship for this year .with a scora of 9-1. Mr F. Bracey was an excellent second, BJ-H ; Mr, C. E. Turner third, Gi-3£; and Mr W. G-. Melville, SJ-4J, fourth. A gold medal donated by Mr P. M'lntyre for the most brilliant game was won by Mr A. Boxall with his game against Mr J. Spedding. At the Munich Chess Congress play began July 21 with 16 competitors — viz., Bardeleben, Berger, Billecard, Burn, 'Cohn, Gottschall, Halprin, Jakob, Janowski, Marco,' Maroczy, Pillsbury, Popiel, Schlechter, Showalter, and Wolff. The English representative Burn won from Gottschall, but as visual lost to Showalter, who seems to exert a baleful influence over his play. Pillsbury drew with Marco and Maroczy, and won from Gottschall. Dr Colin began well, defeating Billecard and Bardeleben and drawing with Schlechter. Showalter was also shaping well, for, in addition to his win from Burn, he had vanqtiished Bardeleben, besides drawing with Schlechter. Marco was another competitor who was shaping well, having profited apparently by his practice in the Paris Congress. He had "won from Janowski and Halprin, besides drawing with Pillsbury. The veteran Professor Berger, of Graz, was delighting his friends by the creditable stand he was making. He drew with Janowski, and won 1 fiom Wolff. A parliamentary chess tourney which lias been going on for some weeks was decided on Saturday. Tho Hon. W. C. Smith won the Cophy with nine wins and one drawn game. The Hon. J. M'Gowan, Messrs 1 E. M'Kenzie and W. W. Collins tie for second place, each having won eight games and dra\*n one game. Several of our exchanges devote some space to the now game of "salta." It may be an amusing game, but as it is assuredly far inferior to and essentially different from chess, it may be left to those for whom chess is too difficult. We aye to thank Dr Gulielmette for the May number of La Rivista Scacchistica Italiana. Although it ranks, as the number for May it gives chess news down to 30th July. It begins with a short address to his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel 111, who, as Prince of Naples, was honorary president of the Italian Chess Union, on his accession to the throne of Italy. The directors say : -' If anything could raise the spirits of Italians, desolated and humiliated by the misfortune which has fallen on Italy by the hand of an assassin, in slaying her loyal, good, and biave King, who gave all his thoughts to his country, and all his heart to his people, it is to see as his successor in the highest office, a son worthy of him, worthy of the name he bore, and who will encircle the Crown itself with the soul and mind of the departed, and with virtue equal to his." The journal also continues from former "numbers Signer Du^

bois's " Forlv Years of Chess Life," in. which he gives the artnals of his own chess career and of distinguished chess players whom he has from time to time encountered.