CHESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 67

CHESS.

Conducted by F. J. Mot/at.

The Otago Chess Club meets for play at th« rooms, Liverpool street, DiMiedin, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting chess players are cordially invited to the club on these evenings.

PROBLEM 3583. By P. H. "Williams. From Chess, Chatter, and Chaff. Black 6 pieces.

White 10 pieces. K 383: B2pkt3; 3P2ktl; 7Q; Kt3kP2; 2Rp 3Kt; 2q3Pl; 8. "White maites in two moves.

PROBLEM 3584. By E. J. Winteb-Wood, South Devon

(From Falkirk Herald.) Black 6 pieces.

White 8 pieces. 2Kt3ktl; 4p3; IPPp4; lKlk2Pl; 4E2Kt; 3p4; 4plBl; 8. "White mates in three moves.

SOLUTIONS TO PJiOBLEKS Problem 358 J Key move: Kt-K D i. Problem 3582. Key move: Kt-K B 6.

GAMES. A lively little skirmish witnessed recently at the Vienna Chess Club between Herr Krejik, a strong Austrian amateur (White),

and Da- E. Lasker, chess champion of the world (Black):

(a) Stronger is 10 Kt (K 4)-Kt 5. (b) White brilliantly offers his Queen for ths following reason:—lf Bx Q; 12 Kt-B 6 mate. (c)' Lasker evidently fathomed the plot. (d) Now the fun commences.—Newcastle Courant.

The second game in the tie-match of four games to decide the British championship, played between J. H. Blake (White) and H. E. Atkins (Black), proved a short and lively one, as follows:

A CHESS TRICK.

The game of chess i s not well adapted to the practice of trickery and deception, and such attempts are usually a waste of effort. The least scrupulous are the crude tricks of moving- a knight like a bishop, castling out of check or after the king has moved, etc. Then there is the old dodge, when contemplating a bold coup on one side Off the board, of scanning the other side until the opponent thinks that disaster is likely to come from that side, and «.also of pretending' to be prepared to move- an off pawn when the intention is to play Kt x R. But all these are northing compared to the following trick, which was given, somie time ago in the British Chess Magazine. In a tournament game between Mr X. and Mr Z., two first-class players, the position here shown was arrived at after some 20 moves.

Black (Mr 2.).

White (Mr X.)

Mr X. (White) had the move, and he saw that by moving his king he could allow the knight to be taken and announce mate. But to move the king, deliberately sacrificing a piece, would naturally arouse suspicion and discover the plot. A. happy idea struck him. He would make an illegal move with the knight. Mr Z. would then exact the penalty that he move hie king, which would make the IO3S of the knight appear unintentional. To think was to act, and Mr X. promptly moved his knight from Kt 3 to' K 5. capturing a Black knight. Thereupon Mr Z. indignantly demanded that the move be retracted and the king moved instead. Mr X. sadly reolaoed the pieces and moved his king to Kt 1, and his opponent immediately captured the knight. Then a peaceful smile overspread the features of Mr X. as he announced mate in four moves!

CHESS ITEMS

A silver shield and gold medal were recently presented by Sir Arthur H. Fairbaim (says the Falkirk Herald) to the Scottish Deaf and Dumb Chess and Draughts Association for chess competition. Six players took part in a retire-after-defeat contest, the final winner being Mr J. W. Allan, Perthshire.

Mr H. Ei. Atkins has, for the fifth year consecutively, won the British championship, by defeating Mr J. H. Blake in the tiematch, pdayed at Bradford. The match was for the "best of four" games, and Mr Atkins won the first two and drew the third, thus retaining the British Chess Federation's trophy for another year. Unusual: Recently, at Collinson's, Huddersfield, the player of the White men—having then queen, two rooks, and five pawns, against queen, bishop, and five pawns—pushed a pawn on the eighth square, and in its place took a queen. Then Black drew by perpetual check. If White had taken a knight for his pawn he would have checked and mated Black in two moves. " That," remarked a bystander, "is the sort of thing you read about, but very seldom see." — T. S. Y., in Yorkshire Weekly Pest. The American Chess Bulletin announces by circular that Jose R. Capablanoa, the Cuban chess champion, returned from his second Amerioan tour with a record in exhibition and a few eff-hand games of 446 victories, 15 losses, and 19 drawn games. While away be visited Canada, the Middle West and South, going as far as New Orleans, the home of Paul Morphy, where he spent a week. Mr Capablanca's original plan was to sail for 1 England, but unforeseen) circumstances have caused the indefinite postponement of his departure. Apropos of the British elections, the Bradford Observer joked as follows:—" Chess players are earnestly requested to vote only for candidates who pledge themselves to support a bill making it illegal to hold

general elections during the chess season. We regret to learn, on the authority of a well-known Yorkshire evening paper, that during his visit to Bradford M,r J. H. Blake lest a valuable ' fawn' —presumably some ' dear gazelle' which he had nursed 'to glad him with its soft black eye.' The suggestion that chess is at all a 'deer' game is, however, rather ' stag'-gering!" In the South African championship match the score stands:—Dr Blieden, 2; B. Siegheim, 0; 3 draws. Johannesburg Sunday Times says " it is claimed that chess playing is so inseparable from pipe smoking that it is possible to tell how a player's game is going from a glance at his pipe. If the pipe is drawing well, and there are only three oar four dead matches beside the player, the man is winning. If the pipe is still going, but the table is full of halfburned bits of wood, the play is in a ticklish stage. And if the pipe, half smoked, has been laid aside, the game is hopeless.

Two Knights’ Defence. White. Black. White. Black. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 9 Kt x Kt BK3 2 Kt-K B 3 Kt-Q B 3 10 P-QB 3 a PxP 3 B-B 4 Kt-B 3 11 Q-Kt 3 b B-QKt 5-C 4 P Q 4 PxP 12 Kt(K4)Kt5 P x P-d 5 0-0 Kt.xP 13 Kt x B PxR(tJ) 6 R-K P-Q4 14 Kt x Q ch B x R 7 BxP QxB 15 Resiges. 8 Kt-B 3 Q-Q

Vienna Opening. White, Black. White. Black. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 10 B x Kt PxB 2 Kt-Q B 3 Kt-K B 3 11 Kt-K 2 P-Kt 4 3P-KB4 PQ4 12 P-Q 4 P-B 5 4 Px KP Kt x P 13 Kt(R3)xBP B-KKt S 5 Q-B 3 P-K B 4 14 Q-K 3 P x Kt 6 Kt-R 3 Kt-Q B 3 15 Kt x P R x Kt ch 7 B-Ki 5 Q R 5 ch 16 Q x R MB 1 8 KB 1 B-B 4 18 Resigns, 9 P-Q 3 0-0