CHESS CONGRESS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 955, 27 December 1933, Page 11

CHESS CONGRESS.

First Day of Dominion Championship. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 26. The forty-third New Zealand Chess Congress was opened here this morning, the Rev Dr Merrington, New Zealand president, and the Mayor, the Rev E. T. Cox, addressing the gathering. Dr Merrington declared the congress open. There are thirteen competitors. Both the Canterbury entrants, Mr R. D. Gray and the Rev N. Friberg, are absent. Mr Gray through family sickness, and Mr Friberg through personal sickness. Play commenced this afternoon. Following are the competitors:—■ Otago, J. B. Dunlop. D. Pihl and R. Watt; Southland, A. E. Le Petit; Nelson, E. H. Severne; Auckland, D. L. Jones; Wanganui, R. O. Scott: Napier, E. R. Smith: Wellington, A. W. Gyles and It. G. Didsbury; Wellington Working Men's Club, F. K. Kelling and E. E. Hicks. Following are results of the first round:—Jones 1, Watt 0; Re Petit 0. Pihl 1; Smith 0, Severne 1; Scott 1, Didsbury 0. The games L>unlop v. Kelling (sixty-one moves played) and Giles v.. Hicks, which was started late this afternoon, are unfinished.