CHESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17178, 23 October 1923, Page 11

CHESS.

(By W. S. KING.) Items of interest are invited and the editor will be pleased to answer questions concerning any branch of the game of chess. Short games having point of merit will be welcomed for publication. Solutions of a problem should be sent in within a week of appearance of the diagram. PROBLEM NO. 127. Bv G. T. Slater. Black (two men).

Whit© (five men). 5 B 2, 1 Q 6, 4 111 k o. 8. 2 B 5, 7 K. 8. 8. White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION. Problem No. 326, bv E. Pradignat, two moves. Key move. R—K 3. A GREAT GAME. The following brilliant game was played in the second round of the recent international tournament, at. Carlsbad. Opening —Queen’s Gambit declined. White, Grunfeldßlack, Alechine. 1 P Q i 1 St.- KB S 2 Kt IC B 3 2 P K 3 3P—B4 3 P Q 4 4 ICt B 3 4 B K 2 5 B Kt 5 5 Q Kt O 2 6 P K 3 fi Castles 7 R B 1 (a) 7 P B 3 (b) 8 Q B 2 BP-Q.R3 9 P Q R. 3 (c) 9 P R 3 10 B R 4 10 R. K 1 11B—Q3 u p x P T2 Bx P 12 P QKt 4 13 B R 2 (d) 13 P B 4 14 R Q 1 (e) 14 P x P 15 Kt x P 15 Q. Kt. 3 (f) 16 B Kt I 16 B Kt 2 17 Castles (g) 17 Q R B 1. 18 Q ~ Q 2 Ifi Kt K 4 19 B x Kt (h) 19 B x B 20 Q B 2 20 P -Kt 3 (i) 21 Q K 2 21 Kt B 5 22 B K 4 22 B - Kt 2 (j) 23 B x B 23 Q x B 24 R Hi fk) 24 P K 4 (1) 25 Kt Kt 3 (m) 25 P K 5 26 Kt Q 4 26 K It Q 1 27 K It Ol 27 Kt K -i 28 Kt R. 2 (n) -28 Kt _ O 6 29 R x R 29 Q x R ! 30 P B 3 (o) 30 R x- Kt! f 31 P x P (p) 31 Kt B 5!! 82 P x Kt 32 Q. B 5 33 Q x O 33 R x R. ch 34 Q B 1 34 B - Q 5. ch White resigns. (a) By transposition, the usual form of the Pillsbury attack is arrived at. rb) The original defence was P to Q Kt 3, this was replaced by Pto Q ft 3, and this in its turn by the text. move. Now comes some skirmishing. White wants Bfeick to play P x P before he moves his K w, so he not to waste /a move by B to Q 0. :.e) Alechine against Rubinstein in the previous round played P to Q R 4 to prevent P to Q Kt. 4. P to B 5 ha« been tried, but Black gets in P to K 4. and ob(d ( Provided for at. 0 P to Q R 3. <e) Threatens 15 P to Q 5. P x P; 16 Kt. x P. Kt x Kt; 17 B x Kt, R. to Kt. 1? 19 Q to Kt 6. (*> Getting out of the line of R. and also preventing Kt to B 6. (g) It looks tempting to play 17 K Kt x j Kt P. P x Kt: 13 R x Kt and if IS Kt x Kt; 19. Q R 7. ch. etc.: but the play ! is faulty, as by 18 B to K 5 Black would j get the advantage. (h) In order to be able to .eet the Q back on the diagonal without getting B to K 5 as reply. (i) Weakens the King's defence: but Black has now the better game. (ji Because if Kt x Q R P at once. White would not play 23 P x Kt, R x Kt, but 23 Q to B 3. <k) Prevents Kt x Q R P. (1) Black now forces* the r-dav—getting

a pawn to K 5 and establishing a Kt at Q 6. (m) If 25 Kt to B 2. Kt x Kt P. (n> To exchange off pieces- but it affords no relief. (o) To "et rid of the troublesome Kt. hut matters onlv get worse. Kt to Q B 3 would have been better. (p) If SI P x R. B x P ch; 32 K to B «, Kt to B n, followed by Q to R 5 ch wins. The finish is a beautiful piece of work by Alechine. CANTERBURY CHESS CLUE. ANNUAL MEETING. Mr W. B. Buckhurst, (retiring president) presided over the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chess Club, at which there was The annual report dealt fully with the New Zealand Congress, and special reference was made to the generosity of Mr H. F. Wigram. whose support, of the tournment led to its- marked success. Mention was made of the success of Dirk Pihl. a member of the Club, who gained third place in the championship. The club ha:i lost three out of five telegraph matches. The annual problem-solving com^et.i;,. was won by F. Woodford, with H. Kennedy second. The prize-winners in the series of sides matches, the trophies for which were donated by Messrs H. L. Andersen and T. Hawkins, were won by A. Clark j and T. Dalton. The visitors' evening ! proved a. great success and a. pleasant an 1

} of Mr W. Wiggins, one of the founders of j t.he club. Mr Wiggiji-i spoke encouragingly and made happy reterence to the doings of other days. The anuual winter tournament was won by H. J. Armstrong. C. L. King and F. Woodford tied for second nrize. The club had been fortunate in the number of new members -t. had secured, and the finances were shown to be Special mention was made of the excellent, work of Mr Roy Lovell-Smith in keeping records up to date and in charting tournaments. Mr F. A. Kelling. of Wellington, was thanked for his ever ready assistance in matters connected with the association and in reference to unfinished games which had to be decided by adjudication. Mr T. Hawkins and Mr T. Dalton were (hanked for work done in connection with alterations to the club rooms. Reference was also made to the death of Mr W. L. Chrystall and Mr Ward, two members who lia.d done good club service in their time. Officers for the ensuing vear were elected as f-llow:—President. Mr W. H. Jovce- vic~I nre-idems. Rev N. I'n'berg and Mr IT. ,T. jOna rr ell; secretarv. Mr F. Woodford; assistant secretar-r-. Mr Ro-- Lovell-Smith, t.r»a a urer. Mr H. Kennedy: committee, Messrs H. 1,. Andersen. H. I. Bennett. R. ( Pascoe. T. Hawkins Mart, a vote j of thanks was passed to the retiring offi-