CHESS ITEMS

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 67

CHESS ITEMS

A curious incident transpired at the Wellington Working Men's Chess Club recently A player was penalised for not calling his , opponent's attention to the fact that the latter's King was in "check," and thereby what was a sure win was converted into a dead loss Mr Fritz Kummer, the well-known Masterton player, intends to donate a special prize of two guineas to the fund for . the New Zealand chejss ' championship " tournament, which opens in -Wellington next East«r Monday. It is stated that the money will be allotted to the competitor who makes the best score against the placed prize-winners. Mi B. Parker, who competed in the last j New Zealand chess tournament, and recently won the" championship of the Canterbury Ohess Club, is now in Woolloomooloo. He has joined the -Sydney School of Arts Chess Club, and is likely to be a competitor for the championship of New South Wales. Mr T. Carmichael, president of the Wellington Working Men's Club and Literary Institute, on Saturday evening, 21st ult., in the presence of a large number of members, presented the prizes won in the club's annual i handicap chess tournament. The prize-list was as follows: — R. J. Barnes 1, J. Milesi 2. F. Bailey 3. J. Morton and J. Kirkwoodl tied for fourth place. Mr Barnes is \to be ' congratulated on winning the first prize, more t particularly as he had to concede odds varying from pawn and move to queen and move. It was announced that the club's chess sides match, "Te Aro v. Rest of the Club," in which fifty-four players had been paired, and allowed two months "to play their games, had j resulted in a comfortable win for the " Rest j of the Club," who had scored' .seventeen win§_ to Te Ard's ten. A hearty vote of thanks , to Mr Carmichael for presiding, end ~to Mr j F. K. Kellipg for his secretarial labours, j endedt-an enjoyable reunion.. The following announcement is made in -The People: A formal challenge has been received by the City of London Club from | the Brooklyn Chess Club for the Anglo- j American cable match, and, needless to say, promptly accepted. The Americans, Being the j challengers, have the duty of arranging for ; the use of the cables for the two successive days. necessary for the match. The will and ' the way are closely linked, but anyhow the difficu'ty is sufficiently' formidable. This year matters were simplified to a large extent by Washington's birthday — a public holiday — falling on a. Friday, and: thus setting i free the cables for that day. Next year this resource will not be available, the birthday being Saturday, and other ways and means must be found.

Mr -Walter Perm Shipley, Philadelphia, better known, as treasurer and one of the referees of the recent !Laslcer-Marsha]l contest, gives his experiences of a visit to Venezuela while on a tour in the West Indies, in a recent issue of the British Chess MagazineV Some time ago Mr Shipley's photo, appeared in the 8.C.M., which* found its way to Caracas, and on registering the visitor at an hotel, the head clerk, Senor Sanabria, recognised Mr Shipley, and at once made hia acquaintance on the score _of being a ohes3 player. The visitor was taken to the Caracas "Chess Club during the evening, where he was accordted a hearty welcome, and opposed one, Dr Yannes, with success. The Venezuelan Chess Club has a membership of seventy players. » Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, comparing theminds of men with the game of chess, says: | " One mind creeps from the square it is ' on to the next, straight forward, like the Pawn. Another sticks close to its own line of thought, and follows it, as fax as it goes, with no heeji for "others' opinions, as the . Bishop sweeps the board in the line of its own colour. Another class of mind breaks through everything that lies before it, rides over argument and opposition, and 1 goes to the end. of the board like the Castle. Yet there is still another sort of intellect which is apt to jump over the thought that lies next, and come down in the unexpected way of the Knight. But that same Knight, as the chess manuals show, ffill continue to get on every square of the^board in a, pretty series of moves that looks like an embroidery pattern." . Dr Emanuel Tiasker, chess champion of the word, in his recently published book "Struggle," writes: — "On the chess board every contingency can be foreseen and prepared for ; there "are no obscure or inaccessible facts to. be .discovered, no- lurking corners from which hostile forces may move upon us. If one but take " the trouble — a difficult task, admittedly — one can foresee the course of events with certainty," Further on he gives some sound! principles as to how chess should be played, from whioh we cull tho following : — " Effort should be proportionate to the resistance to be overcome. An j action that wastes energy ia tactically im- . perfeot. Forces should move in the direct < tion of least resistance. If a large, unwieldy ■ force is opposed 1 to a small but mobile one, j every vulnerable point must be sufficiently guarded. There be no attack where no advantage is. Bring pressure on your opponent's -v/eakest points. Don't waste your main strength on work of minor value. Everv^ manoeuvre should aim to increase the* effectiveness of one's forces. And lastly, , ■abstain front unnecessary defence." I

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