CHESS SEASON

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 15

CHESS SEASON

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Hastings Club's Match with Napier ENJOYABLE EVENING

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The following method is used for Bhowiiig the position of the pieces in the problem chart — Whito pieces are jhown iii capitals and Black pieces in sinall letters. Empty squares are denotecl by a miinber showing the number of consecutive empty squares. Eacii .ihe is separated by a semi-colon. The count starts from the top left-hand corner (Black Queen Kook square). PROBLEM No. 7 K. A. I. Kubbel) KING 7j pawn 4 KNIGHT knight BISHOP; rook 6 ROOK: 1; 4 PAWN 1 QUEEN 1; 2 PAWN pawn king 3j 1 ROOK 3 queen 2} 3 PAWN 1 rook 2; 8. White to move and inate in two moves. Solution to last week's problem is B — KB6. Solvers had better suecess with last week's problem, all the answers received being correct. Correct solutions have been received from Messrs J. Haines, G. Mitchell, W. Rose. A. Stevenson, W. J. Hay, H. Butcher, L. Cook, and 0. J. Crook. Twenty-four points to threel No, j.t is not the football score of the Springboks, but the score of the iixter-club chesa match, Napier v» Hastings. "Is your team going to win the boat race this evellingf,, 'the Napier club seeretary humorously asked me on Wednesday morning. Well, our boat got swamped. Eourteen playrs of the Hastings club journeyed to Napier to play the Napier club, but, as mentioned abovo, they were defeat^d. Congratulatiom, Napierl Napier this year has the Btrongest team that I can romember, and I havq known their team for many years, That this is so can be seen t'rom the fact that Mr Aislabie, who vyon the Premier Reserves tournament at Auckland this y^ar, was playmg ufth board, while their top man is Mr J. Mason, an ex-ehampiou of New Zealand. Although the score was so onesided nearly all of the games were well contested, hard-fought ones, even though Napier showed superiority right down the liat. These inter-club games with Napier are always most enjoyable, and I am sure that all present spent a most pleasant time. Napier were well in the lead by supper time, and the kopes thit Hastings piayers would do better aftcr being internally fortifiod were doomod to disapointnient. The game took longer tlian usual to play, and as it was v.ery late wlien play finislied, the usual j speeches conveying greetings, congratuj lations, and thanks, wero omitted. |. The thanks of the Hastings club are idue to Mr Mintoft for presenting a j handsome cup for cliampionship play.^ j This will be known as the Mintoft Cup, and. will take the place of the chaiu-

pionship cup, which was won outright last year. A game ending, ipstead of a wkole game, is given this week, but it is a real gem. Black 's sacrilices leave him with a lone doubled pawn against a rook and a knight, but the pawns winl The position is as follows: — 3 rook 4; pawn ROOK 4 pawn king; I bishop 6; 2 pawn 5; 2 pawn 5; 2 KNIGHT 5; I'AWN PAWN 4 PAWN PAWN; 6 KING 1.

WklTE BLACK) (Ortueta) (Sanz) 1 R — Q7 2. N — R4 R x QNP 3. N x R P — B6 4. R x B P — B5 5. R — N4 P — R4 6. N — R4 P x R Resigns