THE CHESS TOURNAMENT.

Kumara Times, Issue 567, 22 July 1878, Page 2

THE CHESS TOURNAMENT.

It is our pleasure again to record ; progress in and now the near coraple- : tion of the tournament between the eleven players who came forward to contest their right to represent Kumaua in the return chess match with dteymoutn. Four of the eleven competitors have finished th< ir full complement of games, and. were it not for the unavoidable absence of Mr A. R. Petrie (the Mon. bee.) at Hokitika, we should pro- i bahly be able to-day to give the names ' ot the three players who have gained the position to play with three already

chosen in the match referred to. As the competition is one which interests many chessplayers whose names are not in the list, as well as many others who, though having little knowledge of chess, take ranch interest in matches of this kind, we presume the following tabular arrangement of the scores will be acceptable to all. Each competitor, it may be stated, contests one game with every other competitor, and three who win most games are to be considered as the choien. The .figures horizontal to the names show the number of games each player has won, while the figures vertical to the names show the number of games lost:—

From tlie foregoing it will be seen that Mr Wiesner heads the list with a score of having lost none; he has two more to play. Mr Bail stands next, with 6, also having lost none, and fonr to play ; he commenced late, but has been making up the last week for lost time, and is sure to be one of the three. Then come the completed scores of Messrs Gill and Holst, who show 6 each. Should Mr Petrie, who has won 3 out of 5 games, succeed in winning four out of the live he has yet to play, he would in tiiat case, come in third. If not, then Messrs Gill and Holst (who, singular to say, were deputed by the Match Committee to play the best two out of three to represent Kumar i on the last occasion) will again contest the best of three games for sixth man. The interest which has been evinced dnring the present tournament led some to suggest that it might have been a fairer test of skill for each competitor to have played each other the best tvfro out of three ; but it must be borne irt mind that, apart from the unnecessary lengthening of the tournament, in the' return match with Grey mouth only one game will be played, as on the first occasion; each competitor, therefore, should strive to win the one first game, as if in the match. The President or Secretary will communicate with Mr Worsley, the Hon. Sec. Greymouth Chess Club, and we hope, dnring the week, to be informed when the match will take place.

6 u o % s ■ f3 S3 3 « tsn'Ja -2 5a a 9 fc o cf Smart .-100100010. 3 Gill .0-001101111 6 Wiesuer.... .11-. 111111.8 Ball .11. 1111. . .— 6 Toms ,0 0 0 0 -101010— 3 Hansen .10000 10100 3 Holst .110010 0111 6 Blackburn.. .1000011-010— 4 Morgan .0 0 0. 1001-1.— 3 Mortimer... .10 0. 01000-.— 2 Betrie . . 0 . . 110 1. . — 3