The Quiet Games

Southland Times, Issue 20771, 11 May 1929, Page 19

The Quiet Games

This journal is the official organ of the Invercargill Chess and Draughts Club. The Club now occupies rooms on the second floor at 90 Esk Street, (opposite Police Station), which are open to members and visitors from 7.30 to 11 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings; from 2 to 5.30 on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

CHESS

CONDUCTED BY J. K. CAMPBELL. All correspondeaca in connection with thifc column should be addressed to the Chess Editor, Southland Times, Invercargill Attempt the end, and oarer aland tn danbt; Nathlnc’a ao hard but March will find It nut. —Herrick. PROBLEM No. 64. BLACK (Four Pieces).

WHITE (Six Pieces). White to play and mate in two moves. 6Ktl | 3p4 | 3p4 | R2rlk2 | 8 | 3Kt2QI | 8 | IBIK4 |. PROBLEM No. 65. BLACK (Five Pieces).

(WHITE (Seven Pieces). White to play and mate in two moves. Bbbß4 | IPPp4 | 2k5 | 3p4 j IP3Q2 | 8 | IK6 | 8 |. Two beautiful problems. Problem Solutions. Problem No. 60 (Walter Pulitzer) Q—KB6. Problem No. 61 (Sam Loyd) B—K5. No. 60 is said to have floored Steinitz. Its key-move is anything but obvious. No. 61 in by America’s greatest problem genius. He composed many remarkable problems, but often rode rough-shod over the conventional rules of composition. He also composed many weird and wonderful puzzles apart from chess, and was popularly known as the Puzzle King. Correct Solutions Received. For both problems:—F. R. (Inv.), “Wave” (Ocean Beach), E. A. L. (Inv.), J. J. Marlow (Musselburgh). For No. 60 only:—Dr Church (Portobello), Rev. E. G. Evans (Fortrose). For No. 61 only;—R. H. O. (Inv.) For No. 60 one solver gives Q —R2 but this is defeated by...B—Ks. For No. 61 one solver gives Q —KB6 but this is defeated by...Q—K2. J. F. Barry refers to No. 61 as “Loyd's famous focal action problem.” Correspondence. “Learner.”—ln castling, every square between the King and the castling Rook must be unoccupied; castling cannot be accomplished if the King or Rook has previously moved; the King cannot pass over an attacked square; the King cannot castle to get out of check. En passant capture: when a Pawn reaches the fifth rank it has the option of capturing an adversary’s Pawn on the adjoining file if the adversary’s Pawn is moved forward two squares. In auch case the capturing Pawn is placed on the square which the captured Pawn would have occupied had it been moved forward one square only. Problem Solving Tourney. As our present Tourney is drawing to a dose I am now considering the rules and tondifions for the next one. If any solver las any suggestions to make I shall be .(leased to receive them and to give them lue consideration. Please let me have these ;y next Saturday May 18. I may say that propose to incorporate the following new ilauses:— 1 (a) Solvers may be set questions concern- j ng the construction, themes etc of any iroblem included in the Tourney and two narks will be awarded for the correct answer to each question. Such answers must iccompany the solutions of the problems o which they refer. (bl The winner of the previous Tourney s handicapped twenty points in this Tourley.

GAME No. 63 Ruy Lopez. WHITE. BLACK. Kahn Hartlaub. 1. P—K4 P—K4 2. Kt—Kß3 Kt—QR 3 3. B— Kts Kt—Qs 4. B-B4 Q-B3 5. Kt x Kt P x Kt 6. Castles P—QKt3 7. P—QB3 B—Kt2 8. P—Ks(a) Q—Kt3 9. P—B3 P—Q6 10. Q—Kt3(b) Kt—R3 11. B—Q5 B—B4ch 1 12. K—Rl . Kt—B4(c) 13. P—Kt4 Q-R3 14. P x Kt(d) Q—R6 15. R— Ql(e) Q x BPch 16. B x Q B x B , Mate (f) (a) A very bad move. P—Q3 would keep the superiority. (b) Q —KI, for Kt 3 seems a little better. (c) The threatening Kt—Kt6ch, P x Kt Q mates. ( (d) If B x B, Q—R6, 15. R-Ktl Kt— ' Kt6ch, 16. R x Kt Q —BB ch etc. ' (e) Or R-Ktl P—QB3, 16. B-K4 P-Q4, 17 P x P e.p. B x P, 18. R—Kt2 B x P! ' (f) Pillsbury also brought off this Q and Q B stunt —in a blindfold game. f GAME No. 64. j Queen’s Gambit. WHITE. BLACK. I Hartlaub. Behary. r 1. P-Q4 P-Q4 '■ 2. P—QB4 P-K3 1 3. Kt—Kß3 P-QB4 ]> 4. P—K3 Kt—Qß3‘ I 1 5. Kt—B3 Kt—B3 S 6. P—QR 3 B—Q3(?) ® 7. QPxP B x BP P 8. P—QKt4 B—Q3 8 9. B—Kt2 Castles. 10. Q-B2 P x P(a) 11. Kt—KKts P—KKt3(b) 12. Castles Q —K2 13. R x B (c) P—KR3 14. P-KR4 P x Kt 15. P x P , Kt—Kß4(d) 16. R x KKt P x R 17. Kt—Qs! P x Kt 18. Q-R7ch! K x Q 19. R—R6ch K—Ktl 10. R—RB‘ , Mate

(a) White threatened to isolate the QP. (b) Against 12. Kt —Q 5 P x Kt, 13. B x Kt! ,(c) Beginning a combination worthy of Morphy or Alekhine. If Q x R, 14. QKt—K4 Kt x Kt 15. Kt x Kt, Q —QI 16. B —B6 then advancing the KRP. (d) Q x R, now, loses at once by Kt—K4. GAME No. 65. Ruy Lopez. From the Bad Kissengen Tourney. WHITE. BLACK Euwe Yates 1. P—K4 P—K4 2. Kt—Kß3 Kt—Qß3 3. B—Kts (a) P—QR 3 4. B—R4 Kt—B3 5. Castles B—K2 6. Q-K2 P- QKt4 7. B—Kt 3 P-Q3 8. P--QR 4 R--Ktl(b) 9. P—B3 Castles 10. P x P Px P 11. P-Q4 P x P 12. Kt x P (c) Kt x Kt 13. P x Kt R—Kl(d) 14. B—KB4(e) B—Bl 15. Kt—Q2 B—Kt2 16. P—B3 Kt—Q4 17. B—Kt3 (fl Q—B3(g) 18. B x Kt (h) B x B 19. Q—Q3 B—Bs 20. Kt x B P x Kt 21. Qx P R x KtP 22. R—R7(i) P— 841 23. P x P P x P 24. R—QI R—Kts 25. Q—Q5 P—Bs 26. B— Q6(j) B x B 27. Q x B R—KtB(k) 28. R—Q7 R x Rch 29. Q x R P—B6 30. Q—Q4(l) P—B7 31. Q—B4 Q—Kt3 ch 32. K—Bl P = Qch 33. Resigns, (m) (a) A year ago, in the Ixmdon Team Tourney, Euwe poached on Yates’s Ixipez preserve with more success than in the present game. (b) He must give White the open QR file for what it is worth, since P x P is hopeless weakness for the Q side, and P—Kts allows 9. Q—B4. < (c) Peculiar; it nullifies a Black weakness, the awkward position of the QKt. (d) Beginning pressure on White’s dubious centre, and incidentally preventing P—K5. (e) Against P —B4, but mainly, of course, for correct development of the QKt. (f) Loss of time, as it turns out. (g) A series of well-timed threats has got I him out of the opening difficulties. (hl If Q —Q3, Kt—Bo with no disadvantage certainly. (it 1 think P—Q5, keeping back the BP should be played. No doubt Euwe wanted to keep the diagonal open for pressure on Black’s KPB. He had chances of coming first in this great tourney, and badly wanted the game. (j) A mistake in a poor position. (k) A very fine surprise, compelling the awkward reply. (l) Q behind the P (or R—Q3) lead to Q —QKt3 ch. K —Bl R—QBI, with Q —Kt7 and other winning threats. (m) His R goes. Yates is a great artist on his day.