CHESS NOTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10518, 5 January 1912, Page 6

CHESS NOTES

THE NAPIER CONGRESS. Describing the seventh round at the 'Napier Congress between -CbnneH (white) an d Jones (black), a Napier paper says:— 'I he Fa.lkbeer counter gambit vias tried, and. at tneve 9i black gave white a chance of winning J a piece, but white continued an quiet j limes. The struggle centred on black's \ pawn at king's head:. I'his JeM to] white, who by a threatened mat© at lung's rooks' seventh 1 , won black king's sb'iiskijp. Black's, attempt to wiii backj/he piece proved unsound, and after a series of exchanges white was two bishops to the good. A combination, of rooKs aind the two forced the black's king intto a mating position', a king's knight, :quare mate following on, the forfcysiixtb" move. Gyles has been beaten, three times, In Joiirduin, Jones and: James. Gy]ler> remarked that- the three "JV hu.ve been .unlucky to him'. The record game of the conga-ess for length was that between KclEn'g and James. This contest lasted for 10 hours exactly, and extended over five sittings. Oro a. previous occasion this pair played to 140 odd moves, w(!i an. James' worn. •Oonaiell, of South Wairarapa, is having rather a rough time of it, and premises to repeat Gri'er.son's. per- !', ; mas?ce of last congress, wheal, he wen one game, .jourdain has been the onily man, to go down to Oonnroll, and- the former is now appearing to better adrs anitage on the ■ result board'. .