THE CHESS PLAYER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 14

THE CHESS PLAYER

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» mm • Good Entries for Club Championship THIS WEEK'S PROBLEM

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PliOBLEM NO. 16. (E. Eupp.) 3; 6 pawn rook; 4 EOOK 1 KNIGHl BISHOP; 3 pawn KINCt KNIGHT . PAWN king; 3 PAWN pawn 1 EOOK PaWN- 2 pAWN 2 pawn 1 BISHOP; 6 knight 1; 5 rook 1 knight. Wliito to move and mate in three moves. The solution to' last week's problem is either Q — E2 or P — -N5. The key move given was Q— E2, but thi-ee solvers hav© shown tha|; P — N5 also ensuree mato in four, and must be given as correct. 'Correct solutions have been received from Messrs A. Stevenson, W. J. Hay, 'W. Eose and G. Mitchell. The solution to tlie end-game study is us follows: — 1. Q— N5 ' QxQ , ; 2. P— B8 (Q) ch K — B2 3. QxNch KxQ 4. N — B7 Ch and wins the queen An ineorrect solution received, starting with Q — QB3 is r'efuted by Black playing QxQ. Club Championsfaip. Ladder, handicap^ and championship : games were all played last Tuesday. 1 In ladder matches Lynch def eated Stevenson in two games, and Mintoft , has lost the first game to Mitchell. , The iirst championship 'game of the season was between Eowler and Steventon, and was won by Stevenson. Entries for the championship have been good, and during the next few club nights few games other than. championship ones will be played. Whose naine ; will be the first to be engravecl on the ! cup? ; This Week's Game. The game this week shows the value of centralisation, and eommand of the ! centre. If the centre is secure, then a flank movement can be carried ou't3 but : if the centre is insecure, then a flank attack almost always ends in disaster. i It is intere6ting to study the position after Whits's 26th move. Wliite has eommand of the centre and the open file, his pieces are posted ceutrally where they exert pressure in all directions,, and he has a knight powerfully placed at KB6. A knight so posted, when it cannot be exchanged ofE by a minor piece and when it is not open to attack by pawns, is really woi'th a rook. Black has two raiding knights ready for attack against White 's king, but he has really no other advantagee, and his eoming attack is naturally re- ; pulsed with loss of material to the 1 attacker. The eentral break-through by ; White lcads to a complete paralysis of the attacking troops on the flank. Tho ; openirig is irregular. |

WHITE BLACK (Niinzovitcli) (von Sell eve) 1. N— KB3 F — Q4 2. P— Q3 N-QB3 3. P— Q4 ' P— E3 4. P— K3 N— B3 5. P— B4 B— K2 5. N — B3 Castles ' 7. B— Q2 . N— Ko 8. B_Q3 P— B4 . 9. P— QR3 B— B3 10. Q— B2 . K— III 11. Castles P — QR3 12. QR— B1 P— R3 13. KR— Q1 P— KN4 - - -14. B— Kl P— t-N5 . 15. N— K5 • B -XN 16. BXB -N— N4 - 17. N— K2 Q— K1 18. B—B3 PXP 19. BXQBP B — Q2 20. is1— B4 11— Q1 •21. P— N4 P— N4 - 22. B— N3 N— K2 23. B— Q4 P— B3 24. Q— -R2 N— N3 25. N— Ro N— R5 26. N— B6 Q— N3 27. B— N6 N(R5)— B6ch 28. PXN RXN 29. B XII NXPch 30. K— B1 R— B2 31. B— B6ch RXB 32. P XR NXPch 33. K— K1 N — B6ch 34. K— K2 P— B5 35. R XB Resigns.