CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 3

CHESS

[Conducted by J.F.L.] We invite communications on all matters con* cerning chess. Solutions of problems, games, and analysis will recieve our attention, and if of sufficient merit will be inserted. All communica* tions to be addressed 4k Chess Editor,” * Evening Star/ SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. 2,865: Q-R 8. 2,866: R-R 8. . Miniature three-mover: B-B 1. T. M. Brown’s problem: Composer’s solution, R-K B 5; Loyd’s solution, B-R 7. Alain C. White states that, in his opinion, Loyd’s solution is at least as difficult as the composer’s, though not quite so artistic. CORRECT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. 2,861, 2,863: H.S.T. (Dunedin). 2,865: J.A.C. (Mornington), W.A.M. (Dunedin), A.E. (Roslvn), E.A.L. (Invercargill), J.S.M.L. (Dunedin), H.S.T., M.R.R.F. (Opoho), “King” (Timaru). 2,866: J.A.C., W.A.M., A.E., E.A.L., “King,” Miniature (O. Kaila), J.A.C. Brown’s problem, W.A.M. PROBLEM No. 2,867. By P. C. Thompson (First prize, B.C.P.’s Thirty-eighth Tourney, 1938-39). Black, 7 pieces.

White, 9 pieces. White mates in two moves. Irkts!lb6|Blß 2'r E 3 | 1 Kt 6 I PlkP3E|lplp2Ql|3B3K, PROBLEM No. 2,868. (By A. W. Galitzky). Black, 4 pieces.

White, 3 pieces. White mates in three moves. B|B)B|sppl|3plk2|Bl 4E3|5 K 1 Q.

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP —King’s Indian Defence. — White, Kashdan; Black, Seidmann. 1 P-Q 4 Kt-K B 5 2 P-Q B 4 P-K Kt 3 3 Kt-K B 3 B-K Kt 2 4 P-K Kt 3 Castles 5 B-Kt 2 P-B 3 6 Castles P-Q 4 7 Q Kt-Q 2 Q Kt-Q 2 8 P-K I. 3 P-K 4 9 P x K P Kt-Kt 5 10 P x P P x P 11 B-Kt 2 K Kt x K P 12 Q-B 2 Kt x Kt ch 13 Kt x Kt Kt-B 3 14 Q R-B 1 B-K 3 15 Kt-Q 4 R-B 1 16 Q-Q 3 Q-Q 2 17 Kt x B P x Kt 18 B-K R 3 P-Q R 5 19 Q-K 3 K-B 2 20 Q-Kt 6 R-B 3 21 R x R Q x R 22 Q-K 3 R-B 1 23 R-B 1 Q-Q 2 24 B x P ch Resigns. While must win the exchange.

FINE—RESHEYSKY GAME. An almost incredible fact emerges from the deciding game in the United States championship, wherein Fine is stated to have spent two hours during the adjournment analysing the position, to discover later that he had commenced from an incorrect position. This is an astounding error for a master to commit, and can only be explained by the intense nervous strain which such a “tournament produces. As a spectator informed a representative of the New Yorker: “ It's terrible. They're

staying up all night analysing. They’re just about ready to crack. Reshevsky’s having some trouble with his stoipach, but. man, he’s playing like one possessed of the devil!” Tournament chess is rigorous indeed when our champions play, as Napoleon’s army marched, on their stomachs as well as their nerves! BURTON ON THE GAME. “ Chess play is a good and witty excercise of the mind for some kind of men, and fit for such melancholy, Rhasis holds, as are idle and have extravagant, impertinent thoughts, or are troubled with cares; nothing better to distract their mind and alter their meditations; invented, some say, by the general of an army in a famine, to keep soldiers from mutiny; but if it (i.e., the melancholy) proceed from over-much study, in such a case it may do more harm than good: it is a game too troublesome for some men’s brains, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; besides, it is a testy, choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. William the Conqueror, m his younger years, playing at Chess with the Prince of France (Dauphine was not annexed to the Crown in those days), losing a mate, knocked the chess board about his pate, which was a cause of much enmity betwixt them. . . . A fit sport for idle gentlemen, soldiers in garrison, and courtiers that have nought but love matters to busy themselves about, but not altogether so convenient for such as are students.”—Burton, ‘ Anatomy of Melancholy.’ A BRILLIANT GAME. Dr A. Alekhine considers that the game given below, and that played against Doguljubow at Hastings, 1922, 'are the most brilliant of his tournament games. , It will be observed that Black tacitly offers a draw on his nineteenth move, this being declined by White. The subsequent play is extremely intricate, in particular after the twenty-sixth move, where Black’s R is continually cn prise. BADEN-BADEN TOURNAMENT, 1925. —King's Fianchetto.— White, R. Reti; Black, A. Alekhine. 1 P-K Kt 3...... P-K 4 2 Kt-K B 5 P-K 5 3 Kt-Q 4 P-Q 4 4 P-Q 3 P x P 5 Q x P Kt-K B 3 6 B-Kt 2 B-Kt 5 ch 7 B-Q 2 B x B ch 8 Kt x B Castles 9 P-Q B 4 Kt-R 3 10 Px P Kt-Q Kt 5 ■ 11 Q-B 4 QKtx Q P 12 Kt (Q 2)-Kt 3 P-B 3 13 Castles R-K 1 14 K R-Q 1 B-Kt 5 15 R-Q 2 Q-B 1 16 Kt-Q B 5! B-R 6 17 B-B 3 B-Kt 5 18 B-Kt 2 B-R 6 19 B-B 3 B-Kt 5 20 B-R 1 P-K R 4 21 P-Q Kt 4 P-Q R 3 22 E-Q B 1 P-R 5 23 P-R 4 P x P 24 RP x P Q-B 2 25 P-Kt 5 R P x P 26 P x P R-K 6 27 Kt-B 3 P x P 28 Q x P Kt-B 6 • 29 Q x P Q, x Q 30 Kt x Q Kt xP ch 31 K-R 2 Kt-K 5 32 R-B 4 Kt x B P 33 B-Kt 2 B-K 3 34 R (B 4)-B 2 Kt-Kt 5 ch 35 K-R 3. Kt-K 4 dis ch 36 K-R 2 R x Kt 37 R x Kt Kt-Kt 5 ch 38 K-R 3 Kt-K 6 dis ch 39 K-R 2 Kt x R 40 Bx R Kt-Q 5 Resigns. If R-K 3 protecting the B, then Kt x B, followed by B-Q 4 winning a piece. END GAME. (H. Rinck.) Black, 2 pieces.

White, 3 pieces,

While to play and win