CHESS NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 236, 24 June 1918, Page 9

CHESS NOTES

Ihe five games marked incomplete in tho recent Canterbury v. Wellington telegraphic match have boon very fully investigated in both centres during Hie past week. Mr. Kelling, tho local player at board 5, found that his opponent ■ could win the greater oxchnngo (Queen for rook) with a quiet "waiting" move, and he therefore resigned at once with tho consent of his captain, Mr. Barnes. _ This makes the Bcores equal —livo wins to each club—and leaves only four games to be adjudicated on by Messrs Cleland, Balk and Ellis, the Olngo members of tho N.Z. Adjudication. Board. The positions will bo submitted under niottos to these plnyers, and their verdicts will decide, whether tho match is to end in a tie or a onepoint win for tho Wellington Club. The Wellington Club is about to launch tho annual handicap tourney for tho "Petherick" trophy, and is also about to hold a championship tourney for the first time in about 12 years. Tho latter contest will, it is hoped, raieo tho standard of play amongst the senior players, nearly all of whom have promised to tako part. The contest for rung 10 on tho club's ladder between Messrs. Ward and M'Nair, both'of whom Ghowed good form in the recent telegraphic match, was won by M'Nair (ohallonger). This,rung was very stubbornly contested, the final gamo occupying three sittings.

Good progress is being made with the annual handicap tourney of the Wellington South Club, for which sixteen members have entered. At present Mr. Eno, n new member, is leading, but iv 'number of the older players are in hot pursuit, and he will need to sustain his good form if he is to retain the load. The Ngaio Chess Club's annual handicap tqumoy was also launched n mouth ago with a largo entry. At present Mr. B. L. James, who hae won several prizes at Now Zealand, championship congresses, is leading with five clear wins to his credit. Tho Working Men's Club has received eighteen entries for its annual chess tourney, and ten entries for its draughts tourney. Play iu loth contests commences shortly, and promises to be well up to the standard of past years. A private enterprise to provide New Zealand with. a chess monthly, entitled "The New Zealand Chess ChTonicle," failed in 1887 for lack of the support that it so well merited. It has been suggested that if Hie New Zealand Chess Association were to circularise its affiliated clubs at the present time on the question of establishing a New Zealand chess monthly a very gratifying amount of support would probably be accorded.