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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17879, 22 June 1926, Page 8

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(By W. S. KING.) Items of Interest are Invited and th* editor will be pleased to answer questions concerning any branch of the game of chess. Short games having points of merit will be welcomed for publication. Solutions of a problem should foe sent within a week of appearance of the diagram. PROBLEM No. 26:5. By C. R. B. Sumner, England. Black (six men).

White (five men). kt b 5 Q, 7 b, 1 p 6, 1 R 2 P p 2, 2 B 2 K 2,8, 8, k 7. White to move and mate in two SOLUTION. Problem No. 262, by P. If. Blake, two moves. Key move, K— KB 2. TO SOLVERS. Correct solution of Problem No. 262 received from 11. Ewing and A. L., Christchurch. ALEXANDRE FLAMBERG. The death occurred recently of Alexandre Flamberg, of Warsaw, a noted player, but one who rarely took part in tournaments. However, in 1914 he was present in Mannheim, and was interned during the early years of tho war. At Mannheim he was not successful, but in the tourneys arranged for the interned players he had considerable success, winning the iirst one with a. score of 9, Bogoljubow being second with 8. At Warsaw in 1910 he won a tourney half a point ahead of Rubin--stein. Below is a game played in a tourney held for interned Russians at Baden in 1915: French Defence. White—Flamberg. Black—S. Schlechter. IP K 4 IP K 3 2P—Q4 2 P Q 4 3 p K 5 (a) 3 P Q B 4! 4 Kt KB 3 (b) 4 P x P SQxPSKt Q B 3 6 Q K B 4 li K Ivt Iv 2 7B—Q3 7 Q B 2 8 Kt B 3 8 K Kt 3 (c) 9BxKt9 R P x B 10 Castles 10 P R 3 HR K 1 (d) 11 B K 2 12 Q Kt 3 12 B Q 2 13 B Kt 5 13 Ti Kt 5 14 R K 2 14 B x Kt (e) 15 P x B 15 Kt R 2 36 R K 3 16 B R 5 (f) 17 Q B 4 17 B Kt 4 (g) IS B R 4 „ IS Q B 5 19 Kt Q 4 <li> 39 R Q B 1 20 R B 3 20 Q B 2 21 Kt x P (i> 21 P x Kt 22 Q K Kt 4 22 Q x K P 23 Q x Kt P ch 23 It Q 2 24 Q B 7 ch 24 It B 3 25 B Kt 3 25 Q K 5 26 R It 3 26 Q x R (j> 27 P x Q 27 K R K 1 28 P Q R 4 28 R B 5 29 R Kt 3. 29 Resigns (a) A move advocated by L. Paulsen in the old days, and continually played by Nirozowitch with good results, but condemned by the rest of the ma.sters and critics. (b) This is Nirozowicth's patent, as Paulsen continued P —— Q B 3, endeavouring to keep a. strong pawn centre. (c) The opening follows the lines of Nimzowitc.h v. Bernstein at Vilniu (d) Against Bernstein, Nimzowitch played Kt Q 4. (») Not as good ns it looks. It doubles tho pawns, but gives White an 1 open iVle. <f) Kt Kt 4 was better. I <g> If 17 ... B xP; 18 Itt Q 4. B R 5; 19 Itt x It P, etc.

(h) The position of White’s pieces now looks very promising. ti) A brilliant combination that settles the business. tj) He cannot allow R x P ch and CHESS CHAT. World’s Championship.—Dr Lasker in an interview said that Boguljubow fully merited his success at Moscow, and would make it very interesting for Ch pa folanea in a championship match. He himself would be willing to have a return match with Capablanca at anytime, or equally to stand aside for any of the younger masters. Best of all, in his opinion, would be another quadrangular tournament like that at St Petersburg, 1895-6, between himself, Capablanca, Boguljubow and Alekhine. India.—P. W. Sergeant writes from Baroda to the ” British Chess Magazine”:—“After considerable search I have discovered a strong player of Indian chess in the person of Air Intiz-mali-Khan, one of the oid Mahometan nobility in the State. I found some difficulty in remembering the differences between Indian and European chess—the promotion of pawns only to the. quality of the pieces of their original file and the fact of the ‘ bare * king drawing proving especial snags—but managed at each of two seances to get just a majority of the games played. My opponent was good in the middle game. In spite of the single initial move of the pawn. I did not find the openings particularly hard, thanks to recent popularity of the fiauchetto at borne!"