DRAUGHTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 428, 14 December 1889, Page 3

DRA UGHTS.

Problem No. 94. (By J. Dougal, Kippcn.) Occurred in Play.

Black to play and win

SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. A mistake occurred last week in the solution given to problem 92. The one published was in answer to problem 93. The correct solution to 92 is as follows : -

DRAUGHTS IN DUNE DIN. Played between Messrs R. Barclay and J. A. Boreham in the latfcer's recent visit to Dunedin ; score from " Witness."

DRAUGHT ITEMS. Book-Learning. — When Mr Polber returned from the lodge the other evening (says the "Quarterly Review") his wife remarked with a very troubled counten ance : "Johnny will have the brain fever aerain, as he had with geography." " Why, what is he studying now ?" " Why, he's borrowed a new-fanged arithmelic from Shoner's boy, and they sit up half the night doing examples out of it and copying them into another book." ''What i* italgebra?" "I shouldn't wonder, for it's full of long sums, and I hear them talking about squares and Dykes, single corners, double corners, switcher, and the Lord knows what. Ido believe that boy is bound to be an engineer or a surveyor, for he always had a fancy that *vay." Mr Potter's curiosity was aroused, so he went up to Johnnys room, brought do« n the book, and the considerate and loving parents turned reverently to the title page and found it was a scientific treatise on the game of checkers. The Polish draught board has 100 squat es, the Japanese board has 81 squares, with a double corner at every corner of the board. What a grand field for fun that opens up to amateurs in their end game play.— " World."

Brown (to Jones, whom he has observed to shiver) : " Don't you know, Jones, there is an old saying that if you shiver it is a sign that some one is walking over your future grave ?" Jones : "Is that so ? Well, he is liable to burn his feet if he keeps at it, for I have arranged to be cremated." Conductor (on a certain railway line) , "Madam, you must pay full fare for tha c boy." Lady passenger (with a sigh); "J suppose I will have to pay full fare the balance of the way, but he was only ten years old when he started. If we reach our destination before he has whiskers I'll not begrudge ifc." When you succeed in life you will find everybody willing to help you. Doctor: "Well, how's the ague this morning ?" Colonel : "I'm better, but wife is worse." " Worse, eh ? Did she take the quinine and whisky I prescribed ?" " Well — cr — you see, doctor, I thought, being only a' woman, she might not be able to stand ifc as well as a man, you know, and so she took the quinine and I took the whisky."

23-18 6-10 22-18 1- 5 25-21 8-11 22-17 («) 9-13 29-25 17 22 27-23 14-13 18-14 6-9 3-7 4- 8 32-27 13-22 14-10 22 25 23-19 9 14 14- 7 11-15 7-10 [1)10 14 30 26 3-10 10- 7 25-29 19-10 5- 9 25-18 15-24 JO 15 14-23 26-22 2- 6 28-19 29-25 26-19 18-23 18-14 9-14 15-18 7-14 27-18 10 17 7- 3 W. wins. («)l-5 would draw. (1) 9-14 15-18 11-16 16-20 1- 5 18- 9 26-22 18- 9 (b)3l-27 27-18 5 14 18-23 6-22 10-14 5-23 22-17 22-18 25-18 18- 9 19-15 B. wins, lb) Losing move : 19-15 thaws.

u- / 1- 2 9-18 - o a- a W. wins

" Cross " — Barclay 8 move.

31-26 10-15 13-14 15-18 23-19 18-23 19-15 11-18 26-19 25-22 19-15 18-23 14- 9 22-26 20-16 12-19 15-24 26-31 24-2S 31-27 28-32 • 27-24 7-11 9- 6 18-22 24-19 11-16 6- 2 22-26 39-15 16-20 2- 7 26 31 15-18 20-24 , W. wins.

Solution to Problem 92.