CHESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18011, 23 November 1926, 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 Came of chess. Short games having points of merit will be welcomed for publication. Solutions of a problem should bo sent within a week of appearance of the diagram. PROBLEM Xo. 254. By Alberto Mari, Genoa, Italy. Black (five men).

White (seven men). S, kt 7, S, p 2 P ci 1 p 1, k 2 Kt R 3, P 1 T>. 5, S, 1 Kt 3 B 2. White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION. Problem No. 253, by Sam Boyd, two moves. Key move, Q - R sq. TO CORRESPONDENTS. E.G.W. and J.H.—Solutions correct. E.G.W.—Am pleased you enjoyed both problem and game. The use of R 1 or R sq is quite optional. BRIGHT AND BREEZY. Whatever may be taking place in Russia politically has, forunately, but little effect of an unsettling nature on the playing of chess in the Soviet State, as witness the sparkling and enlightening game accompanying, which depicts the dashing style of two younger members of the modern Russian school. The game was played at the Moscow tournament:Queen’s Pawn Game.

jubow in his match with Rubinstein, 1920. (b) Advocated by.Grunfeld, but other masters play p K 3 or Kt B .5. <c) This invites trouble; there is no reason why White should not develop his K B and castle K side. (d) If 10 B x P, Kt Q R 4; 11 Q Kt 5, P Q Kt 3, followed by P Q R 3 and B Q 2. In this if 11 Q R 4, P Q, R 3. (e) Black has got his B into the position he desires. The manner in which he now seta about the attack on the K, giving up material, is very fine. (.f) Had White known his danger he would probably have played R x B, followed by K to B 2. (g) There is yet time for R x B. (h) But now if If* R x B, R x R; 20 K B 2, there follows Q K B 4. (i) Threatening Q K B 4, followed by Q B 7 or Q Kt S. (j> KR K 1 would at least have prolonged matters. (k) Fatal; Q Kt 3 was necessary. (l) For if 22 Q Kt 3. Q R B 1, followed by Q Q Kt S mate. CHESS CHAT. Pan-American Chhmpionship.—Carlos Torre, beatiing J. J. Araiza, A. Freyrla and M. Soto twice each in a doubleround tournament for the championship of Mexico, has issued a challenge to F. J. Marshall for a match for the PanAmerican championship. Marshall had previously accepted the challenge. Lightning Chess. —Some slow players declare that lightning play spoils one for serious chess, yet the lightning tournament F. X>. Yates won at Edinburgh recently did not prevent him from winning the "serious” tournament for the British championship, which was played subsequently. The fact is that every leading player can play lightning chess, and does so when he gives a display of simultaneous play. Wireless Match.— : To celebrate the transference of the Government of Australia to Canberra next May, a chess match by wireless has been arranged between six members of the House of Commons and six Parliamentarians of Australia. The use of the Avoi d Parliamentarians ” in the challenge is due to the fact that it may be necessary toinclude some members of the State Parliaments in the Commonwealth team, and no exception has been taken to this provision. The challenge was sent by the Speaker of the Commonwealth House of Representatives, and accepted by the Speaker of the House of Commons.

yueen s Pawn uame, White— Black— Rabinowitch. Romanowski. TP — Q 4 ] Kt — lv B 3 3 Q Kt — B 3 3 B.— Kt 5 (a) 4 Q — Kt 3 (b) 4 P — B 4 5 P x P 5 Kt — B 3! 6K — Q 2* 6 B x P 7 P — K 3 7 Castles S Kt. — B 3 $ P — Q 4 y Castles (c) !♦ P x P 10 Q x B P (d) 10 Q — K 2 11 B — Q 3 11 02 Kt — Kt 5 12 B — Kt 1 12 P — Q Kt 3 13 Q R 4 13 B It 3 14 P K 4 14 Kt Q 6 ch 15 B x Kt 15 B x B (e) 16 B — Kt 5 16 K R — Q 1 17 P — K 5. (f) 17 B — U 61 IS P X Kt (g) IS Q B 4 .19 B Q 2 (h) 19 B — Kt 3 (1) 20 Q — R 4 (j) 20 P — Kt 4 21 Q x B Ck) 21 Q — hi 4 White resigns (1). (a) A variation favoured by Bogul-