CHESS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2648, 20 December 1915, Page 2

CHESS

Play in tho animal handicap, tournej of the VWcllingtoa, South Chess Club was concluded oil Thursday evening, , After'a close finish the first prizo has been won by Mr. A. Clark, the second by Mr. D. Purchas, while • Messrs. Armstrong, Harper, and 11. Douglas divido the third prize. There were a dozen competitors, of whom the following made the bast showing:—A. Clark, Class IV, 8i wins, 2-i losses; Purchase Class I, 8 wins, 3 losses; Harper, Class 11, 7i wins, 3J losses; Armstrong, Class 311, 7J wills, 3J- losses; H. Douglas, Class IV, 7J- wins, 34 losses; W. Berry, Class IV, 7 wins, 4 losses; Pcrrott, Class 111, 5 wins, 6 losses; Murray, son., Glass V, 5 wins, li losses. Mr. A. W. Q. Davies, who has twice won the Chess Championship of New Zealand, and who lffl; as a sergeant in the Sixth ifeinforceini>nts, has been laid up'at tlio N.Z. General Hospital at Cairo for some time. Having been medically reported as unfit for further service, lie is now on his way back to the Dominion, and is due at Port: Chalmers on Deeeniosr 27. The New Zealand Chess Association having decided to abandon this year's congress owing to tho war, New Zealand will bo without a chess champion at the end of this month. The title dales back to September 4, 1879, when Iho.late Mr. Henry Ilookliam, of Clu'islcliurjii, bccauie New Zealand's pioneer champion by defeating the late Air. David Hay, of Dun-' odin, in playing off tlio tie that arose in tlio first congress. The championship trophv, which is on. public view at tho local "Working Men's Club, is to pe engraved showing that it was riot competed for at this acuto stage of tlio present great war.