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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 586, 24 February 1882, Page 2

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As before stated, Messrs Wiggins and S Watkins were the first to accept the challenge of Messrs Wilkins and Jucobson. The game was played on Monday, and lasted no less a time than nine hours and a half. The following is a record of the moves : — Cochrane Gambit. White, Black, Messrs Wilkins and Messrs S. Watkins Jacobson. and Wiggins. 1 P to X 4 1 P to X 4 2 P to X B 4 2 P takes P 3 Xt to X B 3 3 P to X Xt 4 48t0Q84 48t0Q84 5 Xt to X 5 5 Xt to X B 3 6 Q P to Q 4 6QtoKB3 7 Xt to Q B 3 7 P to Q B 3 8 Castles a 8 Q takes Xt 9 X to R sq 9 8 takes P 10 Xt to X 2 10 B to Q B 4 11 Q to Q 3 11 B to Q 3 12 P to X Xt 3 12 P takes P 13 Xt takes P 13 B to Q Xt 4 14 B to Xt 3 14 B to li 3 15QtoKB3 15QtoKKt2 1G R to Q Xt sq 16 P to Q B 4 17 B to Q 5 17 Xt to Q B 3 18 B to Q 2 18 Castles Q side 19 QtoQR3 19 QKttoKt sq 20 B to B 3 20 P to Q Xt 5 21 Q takes B, check 21 Xt takes Q 22 B takes Q 22 Xt to X Xt 5 23 B takes E 23 R take,. 15 24 R takes P 24 Xt to X 6 25 B to Q Xt 3 25 Xt to X Xt 5 26 B to R 4 2b' Xt to X 4 27 R to X l> 6 27 X to B 2 28 Xt to X li 5 28 Xt to Q B 5 29 P to X 5 29 Xt takes P '3D R takes B 30 Xt to Xt sq 31 KtoQs 31 P !oQ3 32 Xt takes P 32 Xt to Q 2 33 Xt to QKt s,ch b 33 KtoQ B 3 34 Q R to Q sq M X to Jit 3 35 R to Q 6. oh 35 X to R 4 36 P to Q Xt 3 36 Xt to Xt 3 37 Xt takes P 37 Xt takes B 38 P takes Xt 38 X takes P 39 Q R to Q 3 39 P to X R 4 40 R to KKt 6 40 X to X Xt 2 41 Xt to Q B 8 41 R to Q B 2 42 Xt to QKtG. eh 42 KtoQ Xt 4 43 Xt to Q 5 43 X to Q li 2 44 R takt-H P 44 It takes P 45 R to Q 2 45 P to R 5 40 !' to H 3 46 Xt to B 3 47 Xt to X 3 47 Xt to Q 5 48 R to X Xt 4 48 P to X Xt 6 49 R to Q sq 49 P to Xt 7 50 R to Q Xt sq 50 II to R 8 51 KRtoK Xt sq 51 Rtoll 7 52 Xt to Q sq 52 Xt to X 7 53 R to X square 53 Xt to X B 5 54 X to It 2 54 R to It G 55 R takes P, eh 55 X to Q B 3 56 R to Xt 3 56 B to X 7 57 Xt to X 3 57 P to Q B 5 58 R to Q B 3 58 X to Xt 4 59 R takes P 59 Xt to Q 6 c 60 BtoQ Xt sq, eh GO Xt to Xt 7 61 R takes P 61 X to B 4 62 It to X 4 62 Xt to Q 6 63 P to X 4 63 Xt to X B 7 64 R to Q B 4 64 X to Q 3 65 P to It 5 G5 X to X 4 66 P to R 6 G6 Xt to Q 5 67 R to Q B 7 67 It to X sq 68 Xt to Xt 4, eh 68 X to 13 4 69 X to li 3 69 X to Xt 4 7') R to Xt 7, eh 70 X to R 4 71 R to Q Xt 5 71 Xt to Xt 4 72 R to X Xt 5 and Black resigns a A bad oversight. Through this carelessness Black takes a knight and two more pawns, and White has a thoroughly uphill game till the 21st move. The move should have been P to Q R 3. b Bad play; the knight should have moved to X B 7, when the result would have been gaining Black's two knights for the loss of White's one. c Black might have resigned at this move, as the game is virtually in White's hands.