CHESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2927, 20 April 1910, Page 66

CHESS.

Conducted by F. J. Motja*. Thß Otaqo OHBS3 Club moots for play at th« feoaw, Liverpool street, Diwiedin, every Monday, Wedneiday, and Saturday evening at -8 o'0l«ok. Vinibing chess players are cordially Invited to the olab on these evenings.

PROBLEM 3595By B. C. Macbhide, 8.A., Portavogie, (Prom Liverpool Courier.)

3R4; 3Bp2K; lpskt; IPIR4; Kt3kp2; 4Kt3;

2bP4; lkt3Q2. White to mate in two moves. PROBLEM 3596. By E. C. Macbbide, 8.A., Portavogie. (Prom Liverpool Courier.)

i a-KJVJKt; ipo; 4K3; «; a; a. White to mate in three moves. SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. Problem 3593. Key move: B-Kt 1. Problem 3594. Key move: Q-Kt 4. | NOTICE TO COHKESPONDE.NT. P. K. Kelling, Wellington.—Contributions received with thanks. GAMESGame played between O. Balk (White) and G. P. Dodds (Black) in the contest for the Senior Championship of thV Otago Chess Club:—

Greco Counter Gambit.

(Notes from the Times.) (a) C Behting, of Riga, in the Chess Amateur, January, 1910, says that after 5 P-Q 4, Q x P; 6 Q-R 5 ch or B-B 7 cli, Black gets the advantage. (b) Very ingenious, but unsound. Black can now safely win the Q by B-Kt 5 ch. And even after taking R as in the game ha has the resource 8 . . . Q-B 6 ch, which we leave to the readers' examination. (c) The reply to Q x R would be Kt x Kt P. and if Kt-B 3, B-B 7 ch, after which Black cannot o3oape mate. Is this certain if Black answers B-B 7 ch with K-Q 1? Try (instead of B-B 7 ch) B x Kt. Then, if B x B; Kt x It d ch, K-Q 1 (forced); Q-B 7, etc. 9 . . . Q-B G ch may still be worth attention; e.g.. 10 Q Kt s Q, P x Q; 11 Kt-Jl 4, Kt-K 2. (d) Black is now a R to the good, and i should have made a much better fight. I K.i-Q B 3 looks more promising. (b) Preventing B-K B 6 (so"that his K ; can go to B I if Kt-B 6 ch); and thinking, | perhaps, of P-Q 3, or P-Kt 4, or Kt-Q 5 ch J followed by Kt-K 8. But why not make a I developing move, P-Kt 3 or Q Kt-B 3? | (if) P-Q 3 is possible, for then P-K G I can be answered by B x P or Kt-Q 5 ch. (a) The wrong Kt. I (h Afiei P x P i.p.. Kt x P; K x Kt, Kt x B, Black would be fairly comfortable. (I) It B-K B 6, Kt-B 6. (j) K-K 1 mav be better. Then if P-K G, 1 B-Kt 2. (k) A variation: K-K 1: 24 R-Kt 7, R-B 1: 25 R-Q B 7i K-Q 1 : 2G R >; B ch. <r.) Why not Kt-Q 3 cli? Then, if K-K 5 or K-B .4. Kt-K 1. (u) White makes every move tell, and ha.s I played the ending splendidly, keeping his i opponent's pieces tied up to the bitter end. CHESS ITEMS. Mr T. J. Rossbotham, the newly-elected treasurer of the Otago Chess Olub, cc-rn-raences his term of office with a cash credit balance of £25 IG3 3d, Jlcsgra Quintilio Bittosi. W. T. Craigie, J. A. Boreham, I. Chodowaki, and F. R. Roach have been enrolled as members of the Otago Chess Club. A challenge forwarded to the Auckland Chsas Club bv the Rev. C. E. Fox, president of the Norfolk Island Chess Club, to play a consultation match by cable has been accepted. There will be Two boards a-sid«, ana nine players in consultation akeach end. ■ Norfolk Island, by the way, is the residence [ of the descendants of the rmitia*A»A vf the

Bounty, who removed there from Pitcairn Island. The election of officers of the Wellington Chess Club for 1910-11 resulted as follows: President, Mr E. W. Petherick (re-elected); vice-presidents, Messrs A. I. Littlejohn and A. G-. Pell; hon. secretary, Mr P. C. Douglas; hon. treasurer, Mr H. Cooke (subject to his consent);' hon.. auditor, Mr W. Mackay; genera l committee—Messrs W. E. Mason, P. Still, F. W. Collins, J. Morris, and F. K. Kelling.' The annual report of the Wellington Chess Club shows that there are 33 active and eight honorary members. The annual handicap tourney, in which {here were 22 competitors, wa.s won by Mr W. E. Mason in fine style, he having gone through tfic section play without defeat, and lost only one game in the finals. He is, therefore, the first holder of the Petherick Trophy No 2, a handsome silver castle on a polished granite base, and surmounted' by a knight. Mr P. Still won the second prize, and Mr E. Hicks the third prize. Mr W. E .Mason also took first place in the filub championship tourney, in which eight members took part.

The social hall of the Wellington Working Men's Club was crowded on the evening of the 7th inst., when presentations were made to Mr T. Carmichael and Mr F. K. Kelling. Mr Carmichael was presented with a. silver tea service, in recognition of his four years' service as president, and Mr Kelling with a gold albert and medal, in token of hi 3 services .as secretary of the chess ■ committee, and of his achievement last year in winning, the Chess Championship of New Zealand. A framed photo, of the committee (incuddng himself) was also handed, to Mr Carmichael as a memento.

63 MULTUM IN PASVO. CH ESS. — Florins \recs first made in Florence. — Jersey’s early potato croo brings in about £250,000 yearly. — Nearly 800,000 tons of paper are annually manufactured in the United Kingdom. Conducted by F. J. Mouat. Ts8 0TAQO 0UK63 CLUB moots for play at th rooms, Liverpool street, DiwiocliE, ovary Mon — A proposal for Home Rule for Scono'dldok. Vlulbiog: choas plav-ora are cordialh land was -defeated in the House of Oommons in 1890. Invited to the club on theso evenings. — The yearly output of hair from leather factories in Britain is over 28.000,000l'b, and PROBLEM 3595$he valme over £160,000. By R. C. Macbride, B.A., Portavogie. — As showing the difference between con(Prom Liverpool Courier.) cert and music-hall salaries, a writer Black 7 pieces. quotes the case of a .»ieJLsli contralto who appeared at Leeds concerts at 20s or £2 mu WWK V* r/KTSSSy? 8 a week, and who now commands £20 a % WfWf * .week in the halls. — The latest Parisian invention is the %%%%% automatic doctor. This .mechanism represent® a man, and in the region of each mm ''mz organ is a slot designed to receive a 15 mi iSii iSi §;A 1 centimes piece. The patient suffering, say. from heart trouble or liver complaint goes dm iii i |||| Ill if to the machine and drops his coin, into the i slot connected with the organ in trouble. and without delay a prescription is delivered bearing the address of an apothecary, whither the sufferer takes the billet and receives his medicine. iiii Jill WOk ||||p j — In Cornwall, according to Greenwich m 4 Pf i mi time, the evenings continue light nearly 25 minutes later than in London. Cornwall, mm ... mm ;S therefore, possesses an asset of considerable injportance. For golfing purposes, a,s an instance, almost an hour more is available i 1111 illi'® 1811 1 i in the Cornish Riviera than at places t White 9 pieces. nearer London. ' 3R4: 3Bp2K; IpSkt; 1P1R4; Kt3kp2; 4Kt3, — Mr Whitehouse, M.P., has received a 2bP4; lkt3Q2. 'present from a working miner in his conptituenev. It takes the form of a neat little alarm clock (set at the hour of the declaration of the poll). The frame has rttuuLain. soy®--the appearance of black marble, but in By R. C. Macbride, B.A., Portavogie. realitv . is composed of gas coal, cut from (From Liverpool Courier.) the block and artistically designed by the Black 3 pieces. donor, an ardent admirer and supporter of Mr Whitehouse. ■ m*>m we — A few weeks ago Albert Gayer, of Berea, Cleveland, U.S.A., made a joking m s m 'remark that he would have no singing at m Hi 1 his funeral—it was out of date; what he 1 'desired was a phonograph selection. A day iiiil or two ago he 1 was killed while tending a powerful gas-engine. His mates, convinced that ne nad had a premonition of bis death, w&k Wm mm Iii 1111 iii i decided to respect his last wish. The Dead March was accordingly played by phonoiillii ||||i| graph as the coffin was carried from Gayer’s home. ill HI — About two miles from Horncastle the'e pppp is a house which stands in two parishes and in two Parliamentary divisions. When the tenant is in one portion of his resi'dence, which was originally two tenements, SSI 111 iiSi Sii hie is in West Ashby, in the Horncastle Parliamentary division, whilst when he is an another part of the building he is in the parish of Hemingby, in the Louth Parr - 4ia.menta.ry division. He has a Parliamen3RK2kt; lp6; 4k3; 8; 8; 5PP1; 2Q5; 3. tary vote in each division, and exercised his White to mate in three moves. dual privilege at the General Election. — In this age of " records ” the statistics of the weddings solemnised on a recent SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS Sunday in Vienna deserve to be registered. Problem 3593. 'No fewer than 1000 couples were married Key move; B-Kt 1. and -.cl) silver weddings were celebrated in the 76 parish churches of the capital. In two churches the total was 70 each, and Key move : Q-Kt 4. in many others the number surpassed 50. In order to prevent the unusual demand for their services from interfering with P. NOTICE TO CO-RESPONDENT. It. Keeling, Wellington.—Contributions their regular celebration of Mass, the received with thanks. jJergy disposed of the candidates for wedJock in batches of 10 and 20 at a time. GAMES. — Among the whimsical titles which appear on the pages of national history few are more apparently frivolous than the Duke of Marmalade, the Count of LemonGame played between 0. Balk (White) and G. P. Dodds (Black) in the contest for the Senior Championship of thV Otago Chess tide, and the Earl of Brandy. They are, or Greco Counter Gambit. •were, however, real titles bestowed by a White. Black. genuine monarch on three favourites during vv lute. -Black. ihe last century. In 1811 a revolution .occurred in Hayti, and Christophe, a 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-KB 3 P-KB 4 3 R-R 4 P v R 16 B-K 4 Q Kt-Q 5 ch-G jie.gro. declared himself emperor. Through 4 Kt x P Q-Kt 4 )S P-QB 3 P-Q 4 conspiracy and plot he retained power 5 P-Q 4-a Q x P 19 Kt xQP-h P x Kt until 1820, preserving to the last the apf: ( !-B. 5 ch P-Kt 3 20 KxP R-QKt 1 jveararico of a roval court, and creating 7 I i-KKt5-B QxRch 21 P x Kt-I R-Kt 3-J numerous nobility. Among them were the 8 K-K 2 B-Kt 2 22 B-B 6 R x B three mentioned; and far from being in9 Kt-Q 2 B x Kt-c •43 P x R B-Q 2-k stances of the frivolity of the African char10 R x Q PxQ 11 P V ft K>-K 9- n 24 K-K 4 P-KB 3 L acter, they were names of places, the first P2 Kt x P Kt-B 4-E £6 R-B 7 B-Kt 5 two being originally plantations, but 13 Kt-B 6 ch K-B 1 27 K-B 6 Kt-B 4 ■latterly towns of some importance. 14 ll-KKt I P-Kt 4-f 28 R-K I Kt-Q 3 — At the time of Queen Victoria’s i 15 B-Q 5 Kt-B 3 29 B-B fc'-M Resigns.

63 MULTUM IN PASVO. CH — Florins \recs first made in Florence. — Jersey’s early potato croo brings in about £250,000 yearly. — Nearly 800,000 tons of paper are annually manufactured in the United Kingdom. Conducted bi Ts8 Otaqo Oiikes Cli too OM, Liverpool eti — A proposal for Home Rule for hco’to'eliok. Vlnitiing e land was -defeated in the Bouse of Oommons in 1890. Invited to the club — The yearly output of hair from leather factories in Britain is over 28t000,000l'b, a.nd PROBL 1 the valuie over £160,000. By R. C. Macbh.ii — As showing the difference between con(Prom Liver cert and music-hall salaries, a writer Black quotes the case of a .»lelsh contralto who appeared at Leeds concerts at 20s or £2 im m a week, and who now commands £20 a (week in the halls. — The latest Parisian invention is the automatic doctor. This .mechanism represent a man, and in the region of each organ is a slot designed to receive a 15 Wm mk centimes piece. The latisnt suffering, say. from heart trouble or liver complaint goes || A ||||| j|| to the machine and drops his coin into the slot connected with the organ in trouble. and without delay a prescription is delivered bearing the address of an a.pothecary- whither the sufferer takes the billet IHH: and receives his medicine. — In Cornwall, according to Greenwich ■-ill time the evenings continue light nearly 25 minutes later than in London. Cornwall, therefore, possesses an asset of considerable importance. For golfing purposes, a,s an instance, almost an hour more is available i White in the Cornish Riviera than at places t nearer London. ' 3R4: 3Bp2K; IpSkt; — Mr Whitchouse, M.P., has received a 2bP4; present from a working miner in his conWhite to mate ptituenev. It takes the form of a neat little alarm clock (set at the hour of the declaration of the poll). The frame has By R. C. Macbrid -the appearance of black marble, but in realitv ■ is composed of gas coal, cut from (Prom Liver the block and artistically designed by the Black donor, an ardent admirer and supporter of Mr Whitchouse. ■ i ■ — A few weeks ago Albert Gayer, of Berea, Cleveland, U.S.A., made a joking 'remark that he would have no singing at his funeral—it was out of date; what he 'desired was a phonograph selection. A day ilii or two ago he 1 was killed while tending a powerful gas-engine. His mates, convinced that ne *iad had a premonition of bis death, mk *■11 decided to respect his last wish. The Dead March was accordingly played by phonograph as the coffir was carried from Gayer’s home. — About two miles from Horncastle thee is a house which stands in two parishes and in two Parliamentary divisions. When the tenant is in one portion of his resi'dence, which was originally two tenements, Wk 111 te is in West Ashby, in the Horncastle Parliamentary division, whilst when he is an another part of the building he is in White 5 the parish of Hemingby, in the Louth Parfilamentary division. He has a Parliamen3Kh.2kt; lpo; 4k3; tary vote in each division, and exercised his Whit© to mate dual privilege at the General Election. — In this age of " records ” the statistics SOLUTIONS 1 of the weddings solemnised on a recent Sunday in Vienna, deserve to be registered. Proble 'No fewer than 1000 couples were married Key move and -.oU silver weddings were celebrated in the 76 parish churches of the capital. In Key move two churches the total was 70 each, and in manv others the number surpassed 50. NOTICE TO CO In order to prevent the unusual demand P. for their services from interfering with K. Keeling, We-1 their regular celebration of Mass, the received with thanks clergy disposed of the candidates for wedlock in batches of 10 and 20 at a time. GAS — Among - the whimsical titles which appear on the pages of national history few Game played bo twee G. F. Dodds (Black) Senior Championship Clnh • —. are more apparently frivolous than the Duke of Marmalade, the Count of Lemonade. and the Earl of Brandv. They are, or Gheco Coun •were, however, real titles bestowed by a genuine monarch on three favourites during vvnite. macK. ihe last century. In 1811 a revolution 1 P-K 4 PK 4 2 Kt-KB 3 P-KB 4 3 R-P 4 P Y E Occurred in Havti, and Ohristophe, a jie.gro. declared himself emperor. Through conspiracy and plot he retained power 5 P-Q 4-a Q x P until 1820, preserving to the last the apt: < !-R 5 ch P-Kt 3 jveararice of a roval court, and creating 7 I }-KKt5-B QxRch numerous nobility. Among them were the 8 K-K 2 B-Kt 2 three mentioned; and far from being in- !> Kt-Q 2 B x Kt-c 111 R x Q PxQ ji p v yt Kt-K ?-i> stances of the frivolity of the African character, they were names of places, the first two being originally plantations, but 13 Kt-B 6 ch K-B 1 ■latterly towns of some importance. 14 ll-KKt I P-Kt 4 f — At the time of Queen Victoria’s i 15 B-Q 5 Kt-B 3