CHESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 67

CHESS.

Conducted by F. J. Mouat. The Otago Chess Club meets for play at the rooms, Liverpool Btreet, Du.nedin, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. "Visiting chess players are cordially invit-ed to the club on these evenings.

PROBLEM 3790. By the late Ejiil Pradigk'a.t. (From " Running the Cauntlet.")

8; 8; 2rpQpKl; GKil; pplk4; 6ktß; 2P84; 3Rlrktl. White to piny and ma.iie in two moves. PROBLEM 3791. By the late E:mil PaADIGNAT. (Prom " Running the Gauntlet.")

Black 8 pieces.

2B2Ktbl; 3plpkt] ; 2P2RIp: 4Plkl; 6pb: 6Ktl; 3KIP2; 6QI. White to play and mate in three moves. SOLUTIONS TO PItOHLICMS Problem 3788. Key move: P-Q B 4. Problem 3789. Key move: Q-K 6. GAMES. A " Muzio Gambit" lost by O. Duras (White) to Flamberg- (Black) in the masters' tournament at Abazzia :

Reti (White) vanquishes Flamberg (Bla.nk) with a " Mnzio Gambit" in the sumo tourrt anient:

CHESS ITEMS. Members of the Otago Chess Club are reminded that the annual general meeting will be held next Monday night at 8 o'clock. The final scores in the contest for the senior championship of the Otago Chess Club are: —R. A. Cleland, oh wins; O. Balk, 5; H J. Armstrong, 3; S. S. Myers, 2; A. Ellis, 1J; and G. D. Wright, 2. This is the second year in succession in which Mr It. A. Oleland has won senior honours. A company has been formed (reports the Falkirk Herald) with a capital of i.IOOO in £1 shares for the purpose, of establishing a cafe at 110 Strand, London, to be known as the Divan CaTe, which it is hoped may take the piaco a.s a chess resort so long held in years past by Simpson's. Mr I. Gunsbergis managing director, and other members of the board are Messrs H. D'O. Bernard, W. T. Dickinson, P. It. Gibbs, E. Macdoiiald, and Randal Roberts. It. Spiclmann (Munich Chess Club) has won the "King's Gambit Accepted" tournament held at Abazzia. Commenting on T ,he tournament, the chess editor of the. Sunday Times points out that the games of the. second half of the tourney show no improvement over the games of the first half, and Black still predominates considerably over the attack. Too much importance need. not, however, be. attached to this fact, for some of tho competitors have played, aa badly with Black as with White. In Uio great gambit tournament held in Vienna. about eight years ago the attack fared tetter. But in that tournament were Tchigorin, Marshall, Schlechter, M&roczy, Janowsky, Teichmann, etc., and as Steinitz once remarked when asked whether a certain opening was good: "It all depends who plays it!" That is always the important matter. But even in Vienna although the

order of play was very high, it was also there the opinion of most of the masters, ■and especially of Pillsbury, that tho popular notion that gambit play produces the most interesting chess is nothing but a fond delusion, Anent the match (at present " off") between Dr Emanuel Lasker and Senor Jose Capablanca for the chess championship of the world, Mr "Walter Penn Shipley writes in a Philadelphia paper:—"Prize-fighting champioiX; announce that they will consent to defend their title for a consideration of 30,009 do/Laos, win or lose, and nobody seems to think their pretensions excessive. Now, while I do not presume to think that chess can vie in popular appeal with the profession upheld by ' Mister Jack Jawnson,' I am certain that matches for the world's chess championship, including tho pending! contest between Lasker and Capablanca, would b{ accelerated if anything like proportionate incentive were provided l . Irrespective of tho merits or demerits of Capablanca's objections to Lasker's conditions for the match, the chess public, so long as it fails to get together and offer stakes, has little right to find fault if tho negotiations fall through and tho match be indefinitely postponed, for it is the public after all that is mainly concerned. Under the present conditions each of the contestant* has more to lose than to gain. Should Capablanca beat Lasker ho would, of course, gain in reputation, but be little better off financially. Dr Lasker cannot add to his reputation by defeating Capablanca. To expect them to grasp eagerly the opportunity to play for the stakes now offered is as logical as to suppose that the aforesaid ' Jawnson ' would gy to New Orleans to fight mercly for his travelling' expenses. If the chess public want to see frequent matches for the world's championship, why don't they put up something like 5000 dollars for the winner and 3000 dollars for the loser? This, with sida bets and prizes, might make it worth while for men who have devoted their lives to the game. As long as the players have to find their own backing these affairs will lag."

Wbite. Black. White. Black. 1 P-K4 P-K4 13 Kt-B3 R-KKt 1 2 P-KB 4 PxP 14 Q-B7 ch K-Q2 15 QxP B-kt2 3 Kt-KB 3 P-KKt 4 4 B-B 4 P- Kt 5 16 KB 7 QRKB 1 5 O-O P-Q i 17 B-K 3 QxB (i BxP P-QB3 18 Itx B K-KR1 7 K-Kt.3 P x Kt 19 Hx Kfcch K-Ql 8 Q x P B-K 3 20Q-Kt7 Qlt-Ktl 9 B x B QQ5ch 21 Ux KtP KxQ 10 K-K I PxB 22RxR QR3 11 QxP Kt-K 2 23 Resigns 12 P-Q 3 KtK 3

White. Black. White. Black. 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 20 Kt-B 7 ch KB 1 2 P KB 4 PxP 21 Ktxlt BxB 3 Kt-KB 3 P-KKt4 22 R-E 5 BBS 4 BB 4 P-Kt5 St3 RxP BxP 5 O-O P-Q 4 24 P-KR4 JJ-K5 BPxP I'xKt 25 R-Kt 7 BxP 7 QxP B-Q3 26 P-R5 P-K 4 8 P-Q 4 Q B3 27 P-Rti PR 5 !1 OK 4 ch Q-K2 2-< PR 7 BxP 10 Kt-B 3 Kt-Q 2 29 R x B Kt-B 5 11 15 xP QxQ 30 Kt-B 7 R-R3 12 KtxQ PxB 31 P-1U4 KtxF 13 PxB 1 K B 4 32 R-R8ch K-Q 2 14 11 xP Kt-K2 33 Kt-K5ch K-K 3 15 K-K !-a Kt-QKt 3 34 P-Kt5 Kt-Q 8 )ti B-Kt5cl i K-Q l 35 HI! 8 Kt-Ki) 17 K(155)K 5 Kt-Kt 3 36 KB i Kt-Q 4 18 Kt-Kt5! Kt x R 37 P-Kt(5 RsjifcDa 1.) K x Kt B-Q 2 (a) Threa tuning if 1! ; . . . Ki - x R; 1 Kt-Q 6, dc uble ch.