CHESS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 19, 9 November 1910, Page 9

CHESS.

All communications to he addressed ta the Chess Editor, "The Weekly Graphic and New Zealand Mail," Box "64, Auckland. The Auckland Chess Club meets on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings, at No. 24, His Majesty's Arcade, Queen-street {2nd floor'}. Anawera to Correspondents. F.H.—Correct solution to 64 received. W.J.H.—Your solution quite correct. A.J.H.—The number of possible combinations in the game of chess is enormous, and for the benefit of yourselt and other readers, some idea will be given in this column next week. Position No. 66. (By 8. LLOYD.) Black.

White. ■White to play and mate in two moves. Notation.—6rl, 6pl, 4Kt2B, 4Ktlßl, 8, 4k2K, IQ6, 8. Marshall v. Tarrasch. The game referred to below as the most remarkable ever played by Mr F, J. Marshall: — “SCOTCH GAME.” White. Black. Mr F. J. Marshall. Dr. Tarrasch. 1. P—K4 P -K4 2. P—Q4 Px P 3. KKt—B3 QKt—B3 4. B—lsl B—B4 5. Castles Kt—B3 6. P—Ks(a) P—Q4 7. PxKt Pxß 8. R—Kelt B—K3 9. Kt—Kts Q-Q4 10. QKt—B3 Q—B4 11. QKt —K 4 Castles QR 12. KKtxß PxKt 13. P—KKt4 Q—K4(b) 14. PxP KR—Kt(c) 15. B—R6 P—Q6 16. P—QB3 B—Q3(d( 17. P—B4 Q—Q4(e) 18. Q— B 3 B—K2 19. P—Kts Q —KB4 20. Kt—Kt3 Q—-B2 21. Q—Kt4 QR—K 22. R—K4 P—Kt4(f) 23. P—QR 4 P—R3 24. PxP PxP 25. K—Kt2 Kt—Q 26. Q—B3 > P—BT 27. R—Q4 Q—Kt.3 28. RxKt Resigns (g) (a) Transforming the opening into a •Max Lange attack. (b) The consultation games between Black'burne and Gunsberg were on much the same lines.

(c) No doubt to bo preferred to K —K. (d) it' B—Kt3 instead, White could play 17, K—Kt‘2, threatening P—B4, and to win the exchange by Kt—BO. (e) Well counted. If now Kt—BO, Black wins by B—B4eh. (f) A suicidal move. (g) Very pretty. If Black takes the Kook with King, Rook, or Bishop, 29, QxBP follows, leads' to a forced mate in two or three moves. Note*. Mr F. C. Ewen won from Mr Wilson, the deciding game for first prize in the Auckland Working men’s Club chess handicap. Mr J. C. Grierson retains his position on the ladder of the Auckland Chess Cleb having defeated Mr Ewen recently in a match. A writer in a recent issue of the ‘■American Chess Bulletin,” discoursing on “A modern view of Chess,” condemns tho appetite for “brilliancies,” such as the game yielded in the days before Bteinitz, characterising it an a cry for. the fleshpots of Egypt', proceeding from an undeveloped interest in the game, ■when the taste is naturally satisfied with gross and coarse effects. The British Chess “Magazine” points out that if by “brilliancy” is here meant a flashy unsound, style of play, founded on inexpertness, no doubt this characterisation is valid. But in that ease the author is misapplying the word, and gaining a meretricious effect by doing so, for the word brilliancy gives an air of novelty to what is then no more than a selfevident proposition. His remarks would thus be open to the very condemnation he himself utters. If, on the other hand, his disparagement is levelled at what is commonly meant by a brilliancy, viz., a game that from a dull grey opening, perhaps, goes down to its setting in an increasing blaze of colour —well, we can only say there is no accounting for tastes. We can appreciate the dainty and delicate manoeuvres constituting position play in an otherwise eventless game. But to us, a genuine brilliancy, like a peacock, has all the charm of its soberer fellow, with a superadded glory of its own. It is an expression o£ virility breaking in an outburst of splendour through the commonplace forces that would restrain it. Normally our chess games are prosaic, but there are times when in conception and execution they rise above this level, and make a direct appeal to our poetic sense. Imagination in chess should be encouraged, not dispa raged. Marshall, on his return to the United States from the Masters’ Tourney at Hamburg, writes with pardonable pride: "They say that my game against Tarrasch is the most remarkable game I have ever played, and that I have smashed all analysis of the book, which gave 11 .. Castles, QR for Black as a win.” “The American Chess Bulletin” says: “It is just as Marshall says, and in this connection it is interesting to note that lie was giving special attention for the Scotch Gambit shortly before taking his departure for the other side. Ho had several sessions with metropolitan experts, among whom Captain B. T. Walling. U.S.N.. was of material assistance to the waster player. So enthusiastic was Captain Walling over the investigations that, being uncertain about the position of a bishop in one of the diagrams, he sent an inquiry by wireless to Marshall on board the steamship Graf Waldersee.” f Solution to Position G 5 ]. B—KtSch K Q 3 2. Q —K(k*h K— I*4 3. Q Kt<> ma to