Chess Items.

Otago Witness, Issue 2668, 3 May 1905, Page 62

Chess Items.

Entries for the senior championship. Junior championship, and handicap tournaments of the Otago Chess Club close on May 30. The executive committee of the Otago €Jhess Club propose to hold an open night on a Wednesday in thus month, and members are requested to notify the secretary, Mr F. W. Clayton, of the names and addresses of persons to whom they would like invitations sent.

[Since the 'foregoing was 1 penned, the "open night" has "been definitely fixed for the 17th inst.— Oh. Ed.v O. "W.] A telegraph chess, match between Otago Central and Dunedin will be played on Saturday, May SO (says the Mount Ida Chronicle). The Central team- will be chosen, from the following: — Revs. J. S. Ponder and A. Neild, Dr Macknight, Messrs H. J. Cleland, J. P. Malcolm, B. Smith, J. Ries, and J. James. The country team will play in Naseby. Assiduous practice is being indulged in by the local payers, and interest is created by the advent of several novices, who are receiving tuitdon from those more experienced.

"Madam," said the knight of the road, "can you help m© on my way a trifle? I am a broken-down chess player, and " "Certadnly," said the lady of the house, as she unloosed the bulldog ; "dt's your move." .(And he moved).

The Rev. C. Turrell,_a well-known figure in JTew Zealand chess circles, has been reluctantly obliged to resign the presidency of the Canterbury Chess Club owing to ill health. The rev. gentleman, who will have the sincere sympathy of his many chess friends, is a great advocate of the game "Salta," and was wont to urge the claims of "Salta" on the attention of chess playeTS with much persistency.

The match played at the Cercle Philidor, Paris, between F. J. Marshall, the young American master, and D. Janowski, champion of France, was won by the former with eight g»mes to his credit, as against his opponent's five, while three games were drawn.

A new star in the American chess firmament has arisen dn the person of Jose Raul Capablanca, of Havana, Cuba, 16 years old. He is already far above the average of well-equipped amateurs. He is in America attending the Woodycliff School at Sou.fcE Orange. N.J., where he proposes to prepare for "Columbia. He lias l?een -an occasional visitor at the Manhattan Chess Club. In » game with Joseph D. Redding,, the lawyer, Capablanca- scored a victory in a game lasting 29 moves. After resigning, Mr Redding, to test tEe lad'a resources, asked him what, he would have done- at that point had he continued by capturing the rook offered to ihim. Without; hesitation Capablanca replied" — "I would have mated you in 10 moves," and proceeded to demonstrate offhand the method pf procedure^