TELEGRAPHIC CHESS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 October 1931, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC CHESS

ROTORUA V. TE AROHA. INTERESTING PROBLEM. In a letter received by Mr. L. A. Andrews, Asst. Hon. Secretary of the Rotorua Chess Club, Mr. Fedor K. Kelling, of Wellington, advised anent the two games in the Rotorua-Te Aroha match submitted to him for adjudication, that in one of the games, the position disagrees in two instances with that sent in by the Te Aroha Club, and he asked for confirmation as to which position is correct. Mr. Kelling continues: "I was interrupted when examining the other position, in which a black bishop is valiantly assisting his king to hold up three white pawns, consequently my overhaul of this ending is incomplete. It is apparently a very interesting and instructive end-game. The best lines of play that I have noticed so far end in stalemate or leave a draw as none of the three pawns can advance to queen. It may therefore be found that we can say of the bishop (to borrow from a poem) 'He was an ancient mariner, and stoppeth all of three." This exceedingly neat analysis re-; f ers to the game at Board No. 1, played between Mr. T. P. McCarthy (Rotorua) and Mr. F. L. Kenrick (captain for Te Aroha) . There was never any question of the Te Aroha player winning, as he had not a ^mating force, but the local side had hopes of : Mr. McCarthy's pawns queening. This apparently now leaves Rotorua still leading with a score of 7 against 6, with one game still to be decided. Mr. Kelling adds: "This match with Te Aroha may possibly (as I pointed out in last Monday's Wellington Evening Post) pass into history as New Zealand's only telegraphic match in the year 1931, as Rotorua and Te Aroha are not far apart the new tax of ld per mile of circuit used would not be prohibitive. By the way, why was Mr. A. W. Gyles (N.Z. champion) not asked to adjudicate on th6se two games?"