BRILLIANT BREVITIES. Chess Items.

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 70

BRILLIANT BREVITIES.

Chess Items.

Tha following game played between J. Connor (White) and Dr Diokson (Black) received the prize for brilliancy in the minor tourney of the Scottish Chess Association : —

An amusing tit-bit played between M. Kalde.gg (White) and G. Leissl (Black) in the Netherlands tournament : — Evaks Gambit.

A pretty partie played in Hungary between M. Mihaly (.White) aid M. Gyorgy (Black): — BODEN-KIESERITZKY GAMBIT.

Mr W. G. Hay, M.A., LX..8., barrister and solicitor, is one of the latest acquisitions to the ranks of the Otago Chess Club. A match by telegraph between the Otago and Naseby Chess Clubs is likely to ba one of the first events of the approaching chess season.

The competitors for the senior championship of the Melbourne Chess Club are: — H. E. Grant, G-. Gvmderson. I>. E. Hay, E. B. Lcraghran., C. " Moulin, I. O'Dwyer, &.. G. Rainey, M. H. Eead, G. A. Russell, T. A. Thompson, C. G. Watson, and J. G. Witton. Junior championship tourney: A. J. Bunn, A. Burr, P. Commons, O. H. Edmondson, E. Exon, T. A. Greensil, F. Hemmy, A. J. B. Haldane, A. de Jardin, A. H. Kenyon, J. M'Swiney, C. Manby. E. Ockenden. R. R. Stebbins, J. White, and T. H. Young. Each of the tourneys 13 to be a one-round tourney, and m each tourney competitors are required to play one game per week.

The late Mr D. Y. Mills, chess champion of Scotland (the Yorkshire Post says), was naturally one of the most brilliant of players, but in late years he kept his attacking propensities under judicious restraint, andl his serious match games show all the chaiacteristics of modern scientific chess. The following story is told by the Rev. G. A. Macdonnell: — A prize was promised to the winner of the most brilliant game, but was really intended for the winner "who performed the most brilliant feat. The indefiniteness o£ the original offer once led to the following funny incident in a tourney at Simpson's Divan : An illustrious sky-iocketter (Mr Mills) let off a series of fireworks that blew up the defences of the enemy and opened a e'ear way to the citadel. But. impetuously rushing on to capture it, he stumbled into a little pit, and was so seiiously injured that he fell an easy victim to his opponent. "Wftll, paid the lucky man when the battle was over, "I will enter this game for the brilliancy prize ; it ought to win it for me." "Win it for you! You c!i<3 nothing brilliant." "Perhaps not, but you did. The game is very brilliant, and 'tis prize is for the winner of the most brilliant game, and lam the winner." I need scarcely add that my worthy friend's logic was admired, but his claim was disallowed. The championship of the Hongkong (China) Chess Club has been won by C. H. Fallou, a foimer «tinn", Ci itish plavcr.

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White. Black. 1 P-Si P-K 4 2 B-B 4 Kt-K B 3 3 Kt-KB3 KtxP 4 P-Q 3 Kt-KB3 5 KtxP P-Q 4 6BKt 3 B-Q 3 7 P-Q 4 O-O 8 O-O P-Q B 4 9 P-Q B S Kt-B 3 10 KtxKt PxKt LI PxP BxllP 12 B-B.t 5 Q-Q 3 And Vfh: White. 13 B x Xt 14 B-B 2 15QQ3 16 B-Q 17 B-B 3 18 RxE 19 K-B 20 X x B 21 Q-K 3 22 Kt-R 3 23 QxQ 24 Kt-B 2 ite resigns. Black. Qxß K-RK B-K Xt 5 R-KS Bxß BxPcli BxPch BxR B-R5 Q-K 2 BxQ B-B 4

White. .Black. White. Biack. IP-K4 P-K4 BP-K5 KtxP 2 Kt-K B 3 Kt-QB3 9 KtxKt Qx Kt ct 3 B-B 4 B-B 4 10 K-Q Q-R 4 eh 4 P-Q Xt 4 B x P 11 B-K 2 Q-Kt 3 5P83 B-R4, 12 R-K KQ 6 P-Q 4 P x P 13 B-R 3 P-Q 3 7 Q-Kt 3 Q-B 3» 14 QKt 5 Q-B 4 md "White announced mate in three moves.