Chess and Dranghts.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11610, 12 August 1892, Page 1

Chess and Dranghts.

CHESS.

(By "Mate.") Correspondents on the subject of chess are particularly requested to mark their letters " chess " and address them to the Editor, and not personally to any gentleman who is, or is supposed to he, connected with the " Chronicle." Coi iesr ondents will please write clearly on dean jiaper. as some of the answers are almost unintelligible Largo attendances at the Chess and Draughts Club lost year were few and far between. This year it is the rule to see the room taxed to its utmost with players of both games. This shows that the interest is on the increase. Both tourneys are going off well, and I believe there will be a big struggle for aapromncy in tho Chess tournament; but the Draughts tourney is nearly a foregone conclusion, oven at its present stage. Tho May number of the American Checker Review contains an autobiographical sketch of Mr A. J. HeffiKy, the champion checker player, who at the-, ago of tan was onpaged in selling newspaiiera in the streets of Boston. •* The Che;s editor of the Birmingham Weekly ilereury says that (he British Chess masters do not know what to do with Lasher. "At all points of the game he is armed as with triple stsel. They tried close games, open games, waiting g*mes, iiiic'ent stylo, modern style, irregular style, irregular openings, hackneyed openings— but all in vain. They have tried to out-mar.oeuvre him with Dtedalian complications to best him in tho opening, the uiid-ile same and the end. And whatover style of Chess he is actually playing one is npt to think his strongest point. Ho is as ingenious as Bird, as imaginative a« Ulackburne, as bubtle as Gunsberg, as original a« St^initz, as brilliant as Tschigoiin, as solid and tenacious as Mason, as safe as Tarrasch, as scientific as half a dozen ordinary masters rolled into one. In future he must be classedwith Steinitz, Bluekburne, Tscbigorin, Gunsbe^g, and Weiss. The last named is not spoken off, but as a match player his place is in the first thiee. The only question as to Luskor's staying power relates to physique. Ches3 matches and tourneys aro a severe test of vitality, and being of slight and delicate appeal ance ho may not last." Tho following, from tho Daily News, is the ending of the Ecventh game of the match recently played between Lasker and Blacklmine: — Position after Lasker's 30th move P to Xt 5. BLACK. Lasker.

• The game proceeded aa follows — WHITE. BLICK. 81 Xt takes P Xt to K 6 32 K to K sex Xt to H 5 cli 83 B takes ht Rtikeaß 84 B tikoa P X t j Xt 8 35 P to Xt 3 Rto Xt 7 eh 36 K to R 8 H (ales KRP 37 Xt to K 2 R to Xt 7 38 Xt to B 2 I' to Xt 4 89 B to CJ 3 P to R 4. 40 KtoKti Bio B 7 41 PtoEt P (o Rich 42 K to Xt 5 B takes Q Xt P 4T P to R 5 P to Q B 5 4t B tikes QB P B tak»s Kfc 45 P to R 6 B to Q 8 4G KttoQ 4, B tikes Xt 47 P takes B B t ikss P 48 Pto Q. 5 B t ) K 7 49 B takes B R tikes B 50 P to B 7 R to Q R 7 And Blackburuo resigned.