A WORLD'S RECORD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 67

A WORLD'S RECORD.

! Captain Challice, E.N.E., Great Yarmouth, ! England, writing undeir date. July '5, sends us hia solving record to date. It is as follows : — Chess problems solved ,_ ., 12,328 ~ Keys at sight 624 Draughts problems solved . .. .. 2,832 Keys at sight .. .. ' 740. ' Prize competitions and puzzles .., .. 2,320 Various eliminations, etc I,ISB Total 20,04« The foregoing is for a period of 20 years 22 weeks, • giving an average of nearly 19 correct solutions per week over the whole peri-ad. The solving alone means Borne-thing, counting failures, but there is tuteo tfaa • posting of solutions, noting numbers, dates, etc., and recording results whei replies ar« received. The gallant captain sends us his photo., with a few-w.oTds of autobiography. — Captain „ John Armstrong Challice, Royal Naval Hospital, Great Yarmouth, was born at Bermondsey, Surrey, in 1844. He entered the Eoyaß K>avy in 1859 as a naval cadei, and by 18G7I bad worked his way up to being a lieutenant, and he also now holds a passed Master's (London) Board of Trade certificate of com.--petency .in bath sailing and steam. He took ' up chess problem solving seriously in tha early .eighties after succeeding, in solving sk '. problem a,t sight in the Pictorial World*. Since that time he has solved problems ia many, chess columns, his interest gradually ' embracing draughts and other things. H» has won as many as 12 monthly solving com- '. petitions in the Newcastle Chronicle, as welf . as either events. The captain is a regular solver of the problems in this column. He is styled " The King' of Solvers," and as far as performance goes we imagine- his title will not be disputed.