CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 4

CHESS

[Conducted by L.D.Q.] The Otago Ctteis Club meets (or play at the rooms. Prince* street, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday •verity, at 7.30 o’clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. F.K.K.. (Wellington).—Paper received. I'lianks, K.S. (Manchester, England).—Papers receivviU Thanks. Dr C. (Portobello). —Thanks for letter. No. 1,800 is very tricky, and the key well ..iddcn. 4 Correct solutions to problems Nos. 1,800 and 1,801 received from J.J.M,. T.J.R., 8.F.E., Orion, S.S.M., E.W.T., R.M., J.G., W.T., R.F.R.M’D., G.P.H., White Rook, G.S.M.M'D., (3.M., S.D., T.P.W., J.C. The above solvers receive 20 marks. Correct solution to problem No. 1,801 received from W.K., R.K., J. 8., Dr C., R.S, The above solvers receive 10 marks. Total marks to date in the ‘ Evening Star ’ Solving Tourney, including problem No. 1.801, are as follow: 250 Marks.—White Rook, S.S.M., E.F.E., R.F.R.M’D., G.S.M.M'D. 250 Marks.—E.W.T., K.M. 240 Marks.—Orion, J.J.M., J.G. 230 Marks. —Dv G.. W.K. 220 Marks.—G.M., R.K., J.B. 210 Marks. —J.C., T.J.R.. S.D., R.S. 200 Marks.—W.T., G.P.H., T.P.W. [Wb invite communicalicas on all mailers con cerning chess Solutions o I problems, gnmec, and analyses will receive our attention, and it o( sufficient merit will b» inserted All communlca tions to ba addressed, 11 Chess Editor, ’’ * Evening Star.’] SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS: No. 1,800: B-R 3. No. 1,801; R-R 2. THE ‘EVENING STAR’ SOLVING TOURNEY, No. 1,804. Black, 5 pieces.

While to play and mate in two moves. 285; Blp5; p4R2; 5Kt2 ; r2Qlbkl; skt2; PPSB2; IK6.

THE ‘EVENING STAR’ SOLVING TOURNEY, No. 1.805. Black, 9 pieces.

While to play and mate in two moves. IqliQf; 6pl; lp,3klBI; lP3pl R2K(pklß; K3R3; 3P1K12: 8.

THE OTAGO CHESS CLUB. The tournament game- for ibo season 1923-29 are now drawing to a close. The results to date arc as follow: —Senior Championship.— O. Balk, 7 wins, 2 losses. L. Cohen, 5 wins, 2 losses. Mr Cohen Inis two games to play. If ho is successful in both games ho will play oil' with Air Balk for the championship. —Junior Championship.— R. Watt, 10£ wins, losses. Dr G. Barnett, 7( wins, 2j- losses. A. M'Lean, 8 wins, 3 losses. Mr 11. Watt wins the junior championship from a strong field of junior players. He has been knocking at the door of the senior championship for the past few seasons, and is to be congratulated on his success this season in qualifying for the senior division. —Handicap Tournament. — Class 1 : L. Cohen, 16 wins, 3 losses. Mr Cohen is congratulated on his fine performance in this evenl. Being placed m Class 1. he has had to give odds to Ihe remaining classes. Air Cohen has also an excellent “ telegraphic match " record to his credit, being undefeated in five years of telegraphic matches —a New Zealand record. LUCK IN CHESS. An incident illustrating the indubitable fact that the element of luck occasionally creeps into a g:(sne of chess occurred at the close of the British Chess Federation at Scarborough (reports the ‘Falkirk Herald’). At the finish of the morning session on the last day Air F. S. Smith had made sure of (he first prize in Iho first-class tournament, section A, and Messrs Allcock and Painter had tied for second and third prizes. No one else had any interest in the prize list except, Air Atkinson, of Hull, who wanted to win an adjourned game with Mr John Crum in order to share the second and third prizes. He eventually arrived at the following position ;

Now. almost every chc;« treatise (ells the student that, a king on the sixth in front of his pawn against a, single king wins, either with or without the move, except, of course, on the rook file s , and nineteen out of twenty first-class players would have resigned in this position." Air Crura, however, played on. His opponent moved 1 K-.B 6, K-R 2; 2 P-Kt- 6, and the game is drawn, because White must either lose his pawn or give stalemate. 1 K-R. G would have won in two or three moves Air Atkinson lost £4 by this slip, and Messrs Allcock and Palmer each received £6 instead of £4. Was it a matter of tuck for .the last named players? Alost of their friends thought so. A BRILLIANT GAAIE. The following game was won by Herr Spielmann (White) from Herr Tartakover

i Black) in a recent four-master tourney at Munich : —Caro-Katm Defence.— 1 P-K 4 I'-Q B 3 2 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 0 Kt-Q B 3 1’ x P 4 Kt x I’ Kt-K B 3 5 Kt-Kt 5 l.’-K 4 6 Kt-K H 5 V x P 7 Kt x P B-Q it 4 8 B-K 3 Q-Kt 3 9 Q-K 2! .Ca«!les 13 Castles. Kt-Q 4 11 Q-R 5 Kt-K B 3 12 Q-R 4 B-K Kt 5 13 B-Q 3! Bx 1! 14 B x B Q Kt-Q 2 13 Kt 3.-B 5 Kl-Kl 4 16 Kt x k Kt r: Q.-Q 1 17 Kt iKt 7i-B 5 Kl-Kt 3 13 Q-R 6 Kt-K 1 19 Kt-B 3 Bxß ch 20 P x B Q-B 3 21 Kt-Kt 5 Q-R 1 22 Kt-K 7 ch Resigns MATE IK SEVEN MOVES. A verv fine announced mate in set en mot es is (ienumst rated in the lollov.ing I 1 placed in the .second round of the Brmsli •Chess Magazine's’ correspondence tourney bt'i ween ihft ■ h* Howland (White) and Mr McMahon (Black): Vienna Came.— 1 R-K 4 P-K 4 2 Kt-Q B 5 Kl-K B 3 3 B-P. 4 Kt x P 4 Q-R 5 Kl-Q 3 3 B-Kt 5 B-K 2 6Qx K P Cast !os 7 P-Q 4 H-K 1 8 K Kl-K 2 B-B 3 9 O-B 4 Kt-Q B 3 10 B-K 3 P-K Kt 3 11 P-K Kt 4 P-K Kt 4 12 Q-B 3 Kt x r .13 B x Kt B x B 14 C'itslßs R-B 3 15 R x Kt P x R 15 Ki-Ki 3 B-B t 17 Ki-0 5 B-Kt 2 13 Kt-K 4 B-K 4 19 Q-B 5 B-B sch ?n K-KI 1 K-Kt 2 21 Ki (K 4 B 3 K-R 1 22 Kl-R 5 eh K-K 3 ’Wl.itu here announced male in KCveti.

qg-.e continua (ion submiilcd by and accepted by iilack was ;~-25 Q x b I , Q-L 1; 24 Kt-K 7, Q X K.t; 2b Q x Q, B-tv 4; 26 I’-K B 4, 1’ x I’; 27 Kb x P, 11-Kb 1; 28 B x K, any; 29 P or Q mates. FAST PLAY. Some of our readers may bo aware \says oir ueo. Thomas in tuo rJany rvews I mat more are painters m oil and water colours wuo paint, pictures lor a shilling, preducing them at me astonishing rale of pci haps live or six per day. ii. is lalner a cover pci fomiaiicc ot its kin cl. and we wonder we have not- had a claim put- forward by I here artists (o rank as the champion panders al Ibe pace, and to challenge some ol lire worlds greuicA artists to ’a coldest, of painting Ihiriy or forty inches per hour, or a dozen pictures a day. | 'j ho fast and slow players "l chess si aim in exactly the same relation to each other. the facts regarding fast anti slow play may bs summarised a.-; follows; rhe stronger (he player Ihe lasl-er he can play. The taster the play Ihe worse the play. Therefore I lie stronger the player the slower lie will play, and the slower the pace the better the play. There must, ot course, be a. reasonable medium in all Icings, and lor practical purposes it has been lotmd that tor secondrate. tournaments or matches twenty mo,re per hour is a fair rate, whereas tor tirs,.class eon lost a fifteen moves per hour is not one whit, too fast. And why should lliey play taster? Chess will never become an exhibition game in (he sense of billiards or cricket. The glory of chess is in its literature, and (he enthusiasm of the chess player is aroused by play'uitr over the game either from the current newspaper, or the permanent book, or collection of games, A good game will live for ever. It is, therefore, well worth while to p,ay slow and produce good chess. Amateurs who lake an interest in hue play do not at. all fnd it tedious to watch play at twenty to fifteen moves per hour. Quickening the pace will deteriorate the quality, and will not improve chess from a spectator's point- of view. Chess can never ofTcr any attractions in that direction. ADVICH TO CHESS FLAYERS. Chess reputations are no! built up or lost on single games, hence i.he good advice of an eminent, authority to “never evade a challenge to play.'’ The player sensitive of his reputation is likely to retrogress by meeting only' those whom he is tairly sure to vanquish, and will therefore lose the polish of keen eontest with his equals or superiors, and fall in the hour of need. On the other hand, the true student will play under correction, and profit by his failures at (lie hands of his betters in the game. After all, chess is but a recreation, and. as Mason truly alleges, it matters little whether one wins or loses so long as it is honestly done.