CHESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2955, 2 November 1910, Page 67

CHESS.

By T. S. Johnston, Liverpool.

COr-TDTJCTED by F. J. Mouat. Tub Otago Ohess Club meets for play at tht rooms, Liverpool street, Daaedin, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting chess players are cordially invited to the club on thoe-e evenings.

PROBLEM 3651.

(From Norwich. Mercury.) Black 7 pieces.

2b3Qb; 3PktlKtl; 4pPlKt; 183R2; 38k3; 3pP2K; 8; 8. White to mate, in two moves. PItOBLEM 3652. By F. F. L. Alexandek, London. (From Norwich Mercury.) Black 9 pieces.

lb2K3; kt 7; 8; 2Q3pKt; IP2kP2; p3p3; PpktlßS; lb 6. White to mate in three moves. SOLUTIONS TO PKOHLEMS. Problem 3640. % Key move: K-Kt 1. Problem 3650. . Key move: B-Q 3. GAMES. A characteristic win by F. J. Marshall (Black) against R. Spielmann (White) in the masters' intermational tournament at Hamburg is here shown. Tho score and notes are taken from Hull Times: Peteobt Defence.

(a) Marshall handles the Petroff as a counter attack rather than as a defence, heneo his preference for 6 . . . B-Q 3 over 6 . . . B-K 2, although the- latter is perhaps intrinsically sounder. The book analyses condemn B-Q 3, but Marshall combines that move with an early sortie of the other Bishop, and gives up the Q P if necessary. The scheme is certainly worth attention, and. will no doubt commend itself to players who prefer an open game. (B) If 9 Q-B 2 or Kt 3, B x Kt, with Q-R 5 to follow; 9 P x P is no doubt safe enough, although White doas not appear to gain -anything by tha capture. Possibly 9 Kt-Q ii 3 is the strongest move for White at this stage. (c) If 11 Kt x Kt, P x Kt; 12 B x P, Kt-B 3; 13 B-Kt 5, Q-K 1; 14 B x Kt, Q x B, etc. (D) Or Q-Kt 1, to follow with B-Kt 6 and R-K 1. (e) 19 Q x Q would avoid complications, but the resulting. position would tend towards a draw. (f) He cannot allow Kt x P. Black now regains hie pawn with a winning game. (g) More brilliancy. Marshall excels in such positions. (h) The- repetition of this threat is curious. White's customary Q-Kt 3 is «»ly would

now lose almost offhand in -view of Q-K 5 cr Q x R, (i) Leading to a speedy finish. A most instructive and artistically played gam©. END-GAME. A brilliant little finish given in Falkirk Herald as having occurred between two Continental players: Black (Doniouschewski) 11 pieces.

Black won as follows:—1 K-Kt 2; 2 Q-K 3 (if Q x Q, R-R 1, and mates next move), Q x P oh; 3 P x Q, R-Kt 7 eh; 4 K-R 1, R-R 1 mate. CHESS MATCH. KILBIRNIE CLUB v. WELLINGTON CLUB. The match between the Kilbimie Chess Club a.nd the Wellington Chess Club, contested on the evening of the 21th ult., resulted as follows: Kilbimie. Wellington. Rev. Blackbume.. 0 Fell 1 Purchas .. .. 1 S. Mackay .. .. 0 Dr de Lautour .. 0 Welton 1 H. Willis .. .. 1 Harper .. .. 0 Featonby .. .. 0 Cooko ..... .. 1 11. A. Ward .. 0 Carman .. .. 1 J. Martin .. .. 0 Douglas .. .. 1 Hutcbinga .. .. 0 Simm 1 Milligan .. .. J- Ardsn * W. Doughty .. 1 Roster .. .. r. 0 Banks 1 Petberick .. .. 0 Heginbotham .. 1 Frew 0 Total .. .. 5i 6J* At the conclusion of the match Dr de La-utour (an ex-Otago player) expressed the thanks of the Kilbimie team for the very enjoyable evening tendered them, and expressed the hope that a return match might be played in Kilbimie, end that " the tables would then bo turned." CHESS ITEMS. A Wellington correspondent "informs us that the. first "ladder" game between W. E. Mason (challenger) and R. J. Barnes (defender) for the championship of tho Wellington Chess Club was won by Barnes in 70 moves. The late Sir George Newnes, Bart., one of the mo3t generous patrons of British chess-, left estate valued at £174,153 gross, as far as at present can be ascertained, the net, personality being sworn at £52,212. The will, made on a sheet of foolscap, reads as follows:—The will of Sir George Newnes, Bart., dated 16th December, 1895. I hereby bequeath all I possess to my son Frank, out of which he is to pay his mother £3OOO per, year for life. George Newnes. Tho following lines by Mr H. V. Storey, of the Oxford City Chess Club, appeared in tho Oxford Chronicle r.t the time of the opening of the British chess championship tournament in the city of universities: A WELCOME TO THE CHESS CONGRESS. Oxford, 1910.

For maiiv years you've given to us a Bye, To other cities ta'en your tournament; But now at last you've pitched your moving In Oxford, where the long, loud battle cry, When victory or black defeat is nigh, Often is heard. But you are eloqivent In silence, and although the heart is rent, You bravely utter not the faintest sigh! Then welcome, Kings and Queens of British Chess, And gallant Knights and Ladies, joy to all! The Lists are open, we are watching you. And e keen pleasure 'tis, we must confess, To see the witty brain's forked lightnings fall Across the game, the victory t( pureue. For the benefit of the competitors in the British chess championship tournament at Oxford, the Rev. K. Lake preached a special sermon at the Church of St. Mary. The following idea of it appeared in Norwich Mercury:—" The speaker took'his text from St. Mark: ' All things are done in parables.' He commenoed by referring to chess. 'To make & game a real garne,' he said, 'it ia necessary that it should resemble life. Such a game is chess. There is no other in which it is so certain that the weaker player will inevitably lose.' These remarks were compared with life, in which the strong man succeeds and the weaker is remorselessly crushed in the struggle for existence. This is the doctrine of efficiency in worldly affairs, and this doctrine is well illustrated in a chess tournament where the weaker players are eliminated as the play goes on, and the strong ones, in. the end, secure all honours. The subject was considered under two heads —the doctrine of strength and the doctrine of weakness. His next chess illustration was called "The Chess Player's Dream.' The perfect game we never play, and which no one eveT plays, when every move is correctly made with a view of brilliancy at the end, a ■ brilliancy, alas! which rarely appeared. It is an ideal we never reach, but a man plays all the better when he has the ideal of his perfect game always before him. So it ia in our daily life. An ideal is a most advantageous thing to aim at, not only for the youth, but men of all ages." Another reference to chess occurred when the preacher referred to a point in the middla of a- game, where a man sometimes loses his'nerve and does not make the move he wants to, because he fears what his opponent may have in store for him, but he is obliged' to move and take the consequences, and has no one to appeal to for help. All these chess subjects and some others were greatly enlarged upon, from a worldly standpoint as well as from the Christianity point of view. The preacher's strong point wast that the world said, " Let the strong man win ; let the weak man perish "; but Christianity alone helped the weak, and had always shone at its best in doing so. It helped a man to play the perfect game in life, gave him an ideal to aim at, and provided him with a means to appeal in cases where he lost his nerve and beoaaaa dutaea«3«nt."

White. Black. White. Black. 1 PK4 P-K4 17 Q-K4-D B-B2 2 Kt-KB 3 Kt-KB 3 18 B-Kt5 Q-K I 3 KtxP P-Q8 19 Kt-K5-E B-Q 4 4 Kt-KB 3 KtxP 20 Q-K 2 Kt-B 3 5 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 21 Q-Q3-F Kt x Kt 6 BQ 3 B-Q 3 a 22 P x Kt QxP 7 O-O B-KKt5 2.3 Q KKt3 q x p 8 P-B4 0-0 24 QR 4 R x Bo 9 P x P-B P-KB4 25 P x R QK4 10 Kt-B 3 Kt-Q 2 26 QKt3 87 Q-Kt. 4 Qx P li P-KR3C BR4 Q-K 4-H 12 Kt x Kt PxKfc 28 KR-K 1 Q K 7 ch 13 BxP Kt-B 3 W KB 1 R-KBl 14 B-B5 K-K 1 30 K-K 2 Qx Pch 15 P-KKt4 KtxQP 31 KQ3 P-Kt 4-i 16 QQ 3 Kt-Kt 5 32 Reigns.