CHESS TOURNAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 6

CHESS TOURNAMENT.

1 FOURTH END ROUNDED.„ , BARNES AND GEIEESON LEAD. (By Telecraph.—Press Association.) ;• Auckland, Deoember 30. The chess : championship tournament .was icontiiinediito - tho' end of. -ilie fourth •round. . At . the; Evening'/ sitting : sympathetic and laudatory references were made to the death,of ex-champion. Forsyth and ;author; of• : tho; ".Forsyth rEoiatipn.": •;•;'A' ;vdte,.of . condolence V.was also passed and telegraphed :to deceased's "mother and ■ to tho Otago Chess Club. ' ■ Freeman v. Griei-son (Sicilian. defenco). —Grierson'-'got- the Vworst" of-; the but'steadily improved bis' combination 'towards; theTmiddlevof'/thoJ'Mme,;.where,l ho'wonapawn.-ITreernaii'lQt' a knight go for a pawn to open the\king's knight's procoeding '.that did- not' compen>ate ; for • the : -:loss.,r; Atv:the: ithirtjr^ighth' 1 inovo Grierson announced raato m tnreo moves. . Davies v.: Sainsbury (Guiocco Piano).—< Tho. game rea'hed the twenty-fifth move before a pawn was captured on either side. • Davies ;play«d more steadily, but '■ Sainsbury excelled himself.; in'-. defence, and an ■ even, (stubborn ty>ntest, frora which Sainsbury- secured a-pawn, resulted. At the call "Seal : moves/'; iho.-had five advanced. pawnsagainst . four,. all tho rooks;being:stil]= in:action..: ■■ .... -Severne v. Miles (Guiocco Piano).~An oven gaino proceeded to the middlo stagey where tho: position ijhowed a vain part 'of Spawns;- within v \range';.of "'each'; other; iand. through.'.which 'avbrmchV aster. . Sevcrno's. kniglit_' got over tho rampart with a co-opcrating.rook on-the,| queen's Vingr.and 'quOTn j ready-to-isup-' port. TWhen -this happened the .disaster could not long bo delayed, and "male" . was. announced oill, the , thirty-seventh move by Severne. . .Tamos v. Barnes. (Queen's vgambit dor clined).—This game proceeded for a time, along - a well-beaten: .track, but. Barnes's combination was ill tho end superior, and when - his: forces were called intoaction this 'feature so that, when 'close -quarters A were readied and the sanlt commenced/lack c-f adequatesup-ports-proved James'sruin.and lie: capitulated on, the twenty-eighth move. \ Mason v. .-.Hicks '(irregular) :•. Hicks sprung the historical "Hottentot .. attack" upon his opponent, for which Ma-, son was not 'prepared, and' a knight fell in the onslaught for:a ;pawn. A cramped, development: resulted'- to tho black; forces, howover," 'and tho piece waS | soon recovered- with-;: a. pawn. Willi this; difference in force" Hicks'fought-on to ; the forty-seventh move before f he . capitulated. j. Eutherfurd v. Kolling (Queen's Gambit declined): Eutherfurd obtained. a su-perior'dovelopmentj'biit-tlin-forces remained: equal :. till; 1 - the twenty-secoikl move, >whero'Kelling .-still-' had. his G.K. and'iß.'-.unused.' This essential; .weakness, enabled :Butherfurd-:to';"gain a: piece, but,. lat'er, : ;he- fell into.-a traii and -lost it again. A .most interestjng gnmo, was adjourned.at tho call; of time;.•after Kelling : bid::bfferod*: the ;saerifice ;of , a rook- for a, ■ drawing ;', : -was; declined. Following are the scores at the end of tho fourth Tound:— Won Lost. To play. Barnes 3 1 0 , Grierson 3 1 0 , Eutherfurd 2} J 1 ■:-. Freeman 1$ . 0 . Soverne 2 2 0 Mason 11 U 1 Sainsbury li 11 1 Kelling .....' 1 1 2 >, Davies 1 2 1 James 1 1, 2 i Miles .... 1 3 0 Hicks 0 , 4, *0