CHESS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 695, 22 November 1933, Page 6

CHESS

Ruy Lopez")

ROTORUA CLUB NOTES AND COMMENT FOR TH& PAST W-EEK HANDICAP TOURNAMENT

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For this tourney, ihe players have been handic.apped as follows: Hcratch, A. H. Fraer, J. T. Burton, W. J. Kurney, A. W. R. Saxby, M. Roland, E. F. Tibbitts and G. Yinall. Receiving Pawn and move- (from scratch players): L. Clark, H. Heywood, E. Jackson, J. H. Wiatson, D. H. Edwards, C. Tattersall and W. Heley. Receiving Knight (from scratch): H. L. Musgrave, H. J. Heley, W. H. Evans, R. J. Bould, A. Dixon, J. H. Blencowe and S. Walker. Receiving Rook (from scratch) : C. Mulligan, E. G. Bailey, G. Rowley, A. L. Jenkins, A. Shaw and L. Watt. The order should be particularly noted, as players in the same class are given the move when meeting players mentioned in front of them, but concede the move to players men•tioned .after them, e.g., Burton plays Black against Kurney, but White against Fraer. The following is the draw for the first .round to commence on Friday evening next, the 24th, at 7.30 p.m.: Section A. — Fraer v. Watt; Kurney v. Jenkins; Tibbitts v. Bailey, Clark v. Walker, Jackson v. Blencowe, Watson v. Evans, Tattersall v. H. Heley. Section B: Burton v. Shaw, Saxby v. Rowley, Roland v. Mulligan, Yinall v. Dixon, Heywood v. Bould, Edwards v. Musgrave, W. Heley a bye Should thcre be sufficient post entries, the question of re-drawing the rounds will he considered. The match committee would have liked to have seen entries from S. L. Paterson, H. Hardcastle, A. P. Butt, H. Johnson, Dr. Wallis, W. L. Richards and A. W. Downer. The club team has suffered heavily in losing such prominent players ,as L. E. Andrews, A. E. Booth and Rev. W. H. Speer and for this reason particularly, would he !glad to have the support of the first mentimied players.

Chess Now an International Game While chess has heen played for over two thousand ycars, there has been remarkably little cbange in the cbaracter of the game, other than minor additions or improvements. The game to-day is played undtr the same rules throughout the world, so that the diificulties in hringing about any further alterations are practically insurmountable. , During the war a variety of chess called 'Kricgspiel" gained a certain amount of popularity. Kriegspiel proper is played on large-scale maps, with pieces which represent infantry, artillery and the other units of military force, undtr the direction of an umpire who regulates the manoeuvres of one player in acc-. >rdance with the dispositions of the forces of his antagonist. Chess Kriegspiel arists as an attempt to apply this principle to the chess-board. Chess Kriegspiel is played with three sets of hoards and men, side by sido, so protected hy screens that each player sees his own set' only while the umpire whose board is in the middle, secs all three. Capablanca invented another varict of chess, to he played on a hoard of' 100 squares, the two additional pieces heing a Chancellor and a Mar•jhall (one of each only on each side). The" "Chancellor combines the powers of Bishop and Knight, and stands between the King and King's Bishop. The Marshali combines the powers of Rook .and Knight, and stands between the Queen and Queen's Knight. Very little is heard of either Kriegspiel or Capahlanca's Chess to-day. Zuzwang and Opposition I have been asked to show the correct move for Black in the position shown undtr "Zuzwang" last week. Black cannot draw in the posi cion as shown, as his last move was -wrong, but move the kings away one square, and set the pieces up as fol1 CVrS ; — White : ICing on King's Bishop 5, Pawn on Queen 4. Black: King on Queen's Knight 4. Pawn on Queen 4. Black can then draw as follows: 1K - K6, K - B3. 2K - K5, K - B2. 3K x P K - Q2 (gaining the opposition) 1K - Ko, Iv - K2. 5P - Q5, K - Q2. ;jp - Q6, K - Q sq. drawn. This Week's Problcm Position White: King on King 6, Pawns on King s Bishop 5 and King s Knight 6. Black: King on King's Bishop Square, Pawn on King s Knight 2 (5 pieces). White to play and win. (Note: If White plays 1P - B6, how can Black draw?). Answer to Last Week's Prothlcm White'b first move does not matter, so long as it is a Rook move. Black nas only two moves, K - Qsq, and X - KB sq. If the former, move the Rook on the Queen's Bishop filc (forcing the King back, and mate next move), and if the latter, to ths king's Knight file, on the second move.