CHESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3006, 25 October 1911, Page 67

CHESS.

Conducted by F. J. Motjat. The Otago Chess Club meets for play at the rooms, Liverpool street, Dtunedin, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting chess players are cordially invited to the club on these evenings.

PROBI,EM 3748By M. de M. Filho. (From Western Daily Mercury.)

4Kt3; 8; p3p2F J ; 4klrl; lrlRplbl; 281P2p 6RK; bSQI. Whit© to play aaid mate in two moves.. P'rtOBLEM 3749. (Tourney Problern from Hampstead and Highg«,to Express.) Black 7 piece®.

8; 6B1; 4p3; IPIkP3; p2pKtlPl; P2Q2pl; KP2P3; 4q2kt. White to play aaid miate in three moves.

SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS.

Problem. 3746. Key move: R-K B 3 Problem 3747. Key move: Q-Kt L TO COBEESPONDENTS. C. Janion (Wellington) and A. Eillis (Dunedin).—Mainy thanks for contributions. GAMES. Match gam© played a/t Tiroaru on October 13, 1911, between A. Ellis, of Dunedin (White), and T. Mara, of Timaxu (Black): Two Knights' Defence.

A CH*SS 1) It AM 4. Mr Charles Jamioa, ia vice-president of the New Zealand Chess Association, who tor many months, in the seventies, conducted the chess column of the Otago Witness, sends VB the following chess drama, which will no doubt prove highly interesting and amusing to our many chess reader* It appeared originally in a Newcastle (English) paper iamd in the Witness, on May 6, 1676:

Scene—The Divan. Hour, 6 p.m. Enter Distinguished Country Amateur, who seats himself .at the end 1 table, near the window. j .' _ , I> c A.—Waiter, cup of ooff.es and cigar.

Alfred.—Yezzir. ,',«.., %. DC. A. (addressing Modest Youth, who is examining chess problem at the same table).— Play chess, sir? Modest Youth—Yes, a little.. . D. C. A.—Dike a game. Modest Y.—With pleasure, sir. (Ihey.sit down and draw for first move, which the D. C. A. wins.) D C A.—Perhaps I • ought to tell you that I am president and leading member of the well-known Stoke Pogis Chess Club. 1 am in the habit of giving the odds of Rooki to all our members, with the exception, of Mr Black, a very strong amateur, who takes only the Knight from me; but I invariably win five games to two. Know Mr Black, Sir? He was here about a fortnight ago, and defeated Bird, Boden, Wisfeer, Macdcmnell, and several others. Will gladly render you any odds- you may ask for. - Modest Y. Thank you sir, I shall be happy to take any odds you oare to give mie. But suppose we play the first game on ■even terms, and then try the Knight. D. C. A.—Oh, certainly. Very well —very well, sir. Be it so. Even, if you must have it; but I dare say, sir, w© shall find 'our level in time. My move, I think. (Whistles "She wore a wreath of rosea.") There sirl 1 P-K 4.

Modest Y.—l P-K 4. • '',-,■•, D. C. A. —Come; I'll see how you defend the gambit. Nothing like a gambit to test young players. 2 P-K B 4! Modest Y—2 P x P. ''"•", D. C. A—Oho! he takes it. Quite right, sir. I always recommend a beginner, when playing with a proficient, to accept the gambit. It is an excellent lesson. 3 Kt-K B 3, Modest Y—3 P-K Kt 4. D. C. A.—Oh, you know something of the bcoks, I perceive. 4 P-K R 4. Modest Y-—4 P-Kt 5. D. C A.—4 Kt-K 5. Modest Y.—s Kt-K B 3.

D. C.-A. —Oh! that old 6<tory. Aren't you aware, my dear sir, that that defence is exploded, obsolete, fossil, and utterly untenable? You- ought to have played 5 B-Kt 2. Well, you must take the consequences. I mover give or take back a move. Of course, I answer with 6 B-Q B 4. Modsist Y.—6 P-Q 4. D. C. A—7 P x P. Modest if.—7 B-Q 3. D. C. A.—Wrong again, I declare! Don't you knew that 7 B-Kt 2 is vastly supierior ? (Whistles "That I loved her still the same.") 8 P-Q 4. Modest Y.—B Kt-K R 4. D. C. A.—(liillibulevo-ero-eiro.) 9 K-B 2. Modest Y.—9 Kt-Kt 6. D. C. A.—How very easy it is to entrap a beginner! 10 K-K 1. Modest Y —lO Qxß P. D. C. A. —I thought so. The very move a tyro would make. Just what I wanted. Now, sir, what do you say. to 11 Kt-Kt 6 (dis oh). Whene does your lordship propose to play the attacked Queen ? I flatter myself it will take anoie than a trifle of odds to bring us together. Play away, sir. Modest Y.—ll Kt-K 6 (dis ch). D. C. A. —(Starts and looks at the position attentively.) Tut! Tut! And they say there 'is no luck in chess. I never saw such a gross piece of fluking. You observe, my youojig friend, that I cannot play my King to K 2, because my Knight is en prise, while, if I retreat him to Knight's square, I let you off with a perpetual cheek. Was there ever anything more stupid or annoying? Just, too, when I had the game in my hands. Well, well, I must play 32 K-K 1. Modest Y—l2 Q-B 7 oh.

I>. C. A.—Tis-nh! To think that I could] allow such <a fin* gam© to end in perpetual check. 13 K-R 1. Modest Y.—l 3R P x Kt. Mate!

D. C. A. —Dolt, ass, fool, blundering idiot that I ami I've an awful headache—ought never to have sat down to chess. (Seizes his hat, and exit. Fragmentary imprecations on the staircase.)

CHESS ITEMS. The thirty-second annual meeting of the Canterbury Chess Club took place at Christchurch on the 11th inst. The following were elected office-bearers:—President, Mr H. J. Nightingale; vice-president, Mr Thornhill Cooper; secretary, Mr P. J. Brcoker; treasurer, Mr I*. Roy Smith; committee— Messrs R. A Joseph, D. Gibb, E. H. Severne, Buckett, and Hawkins The report submitted showed that the club was in a siatisfactory condition since its re-establishment ia year ago

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