CHESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18581, 2 October 1928, Page 6

CHESS.

(By W. S. KINO). Items of Interest ere InTited and the editor will be pleased to answer questions concerning any branen of the game op chess. Short games having points of merit will be welcomed for publication. Solutions of a problem should be sent within a week of appearPROBLEM No. i 366. By Lo Kam Woon. (Prom the Singapore “ Free Press.*’)

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White (six men). 8. 6 P B 3?, 6 k 1, 3 B 4. 4 P 3 K, 8. 8. 8. White to play and mate in two moves. Not much is seen or heard of chess in China, and it is rare that a problem by a Chinese comes under notice. The above specimen will therefore prove interesting. It contains a cute and decidedly tricky point. BUDAPEST CHAMPIONSHIP. The following is a good and exciting game from the tournament for the championship of Budapest:— French Defence. White—L. Merenyi. Black—E. Szekely. IP 2P—Q4 2 P Q 4 3 Itt Q B 3 3 B Kt 5 (a) 4 P K 5! 4 P—— Q B 4 6B—Q2! 5 P x Q P 6 Kt —r Kt 5 6 B x B ch <b) 7QxB7Kt Q B 3 8 P -It B 4 8 Q Kt 3 9 Kt It B 3 9 Kt R 3 10 Kt Q 6 ch 10 It B 1 11 Castles Q 11 Kt K Kt 5 12 B Q 3 (c) 12 Itt K 6 13 Kt —lt Kt 5 (d) 13 Kt x R 14 Q x Kt 14 Kt Q 1 16 Q R 5 15 Q B 2 16 Kt x R P ch 16 It Kt l (e) 17 Kt K 8 17 Q 18 Kt (Itl) —B 6 chiß Qx Kt 19 P x Q 19 Resigns (a) A defence advocated by Maroczy in order to simplify matters} but Boguljubow's method of handling it (the method here adopted) tends to anything but a simple game. (b) If B B 4; 7 Q —Kt 4. After the text White will get in Kt <«— Q 6 ch, and Black will have to. move his king. (c) White is in no hurry to regain his pawn; he prefers to attack. (d) Willing to sacrifice all his troops if lie can but win the Black king. (e) If K K 2; 17 QV- Kt 5 ch. CHESS CHAT. “ The mere player who has never experienced the magnetic attraction of problems cannot fully realise the feelings of joy and satisfaction from solving some masterpiece, the work of a famous composer. There can be no doubt that solving problems, especially from diagrams, is an intellectual amusement, and that the study of; problems tends to accuracy of analysis, quickens the perception, and strength- 1 ens the chess faculties generally, and may ;impart some, of those sparkling ideas ; Which are so sadly needed in ordinary play:.*-—r&tfattd Magazine." Thu New York •• Herald •• states that for the first time in the long history of chess a woman may be a competitor in an international masters' tournament. This was indicated in an announcement made of plans to hold a congress within a year at Bradley Beach, N.J., by Victor D. Spark. member of the Manhattan Chess Club of this city. Miss Vera Menchik. of Hastings, England, who acquired the title of world's woman champion at London last year, wdil receive an invitation. A native of Russia, she has 'resided, in England several years, and in that time has steadily made progress toward the top of the chess ladder. Not long ago she won first prize from a strong field of male competitors in the major open tournament at Cheltenham, and, more recently, won her game from F. D. Yates, the present British champion, in a similar tournament at Scarborough. Close examination of the scores of some of her games has disclosed talent of high degree. At Bradley Beach she will meet fom-teen of the best European’masters and seven pickisd experts from this side or the Atlantic.