DRAUGHTS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 4, 9 April 1920, Page 10

DRAUGHTS.

(By W. G. Leggatt.)

PROBLEM 4. White 7, Kings 19 and 28,

Black 16, Kings 6 and 12. White to Play and Draw.

A neat little thing from the "Boy's Own Annual." The Championship Draughts Tourney was opened on Good Friday in Timaru by Mr J. Craigie, M.P. There were six competitors for the championship and eleven for the National Handicaps. Mr Craigie, in a happy little speech, welcomed the visitors. TTe said contests such as the present were always beneficial to a town and as his heart and soul was in Timaru he was always pleased to see one there. He was not an enthusiastic draughts player, having too busy a life to find time for it but he knew that it was a pleasant intellectual pastime. One thing he liked about it, it was a silent garne. "Your achievements," he said, "are not won by talk." It was a very old game too. The monument© showed that it was played by the ancient Egyptians. The old Greeks and Eomans also played it. Where he came from the people called the draughts board the dam-brod and he recounted a humorous little story of a Scotch lady who went into a shop in London for a piece of cloth. She asked for a piece with a dam-brod pattern. The shop assistant was a coekney and did not understand the Scotch dialect and he brought down a piece about two yards in width. He said "I don't know it this pattern will do Madam but its dam broad alright. Mr Craigie impressed upon the players the importance of playing without illfeeling. He hoped they would all have a good time in Timaru and carry pleasant recollections away of their stay. He then made the first move in the championship and declared the tourney opened. The Timaru committee have done all in their power to make the tournament a success and their efforts have been much appreciated by the' visiting players. They have been shown places of interest about the town, also motored round the country in the vicinity and are to be entertained at a smoke concert before leavirtg. They are gentlemen whom it is a pleasure to meet. ANOTHER EARLY TRAP TO AVOID, "The Ayrshire Lassie."

And C Draws. Below is an unusual and rather interestiug game played between Mr H. Morris and Mr J. Mulvey some years ago. Morris, Black ; Mulvey, White,

Drawn, Through arrangements made by the committee I have been unable to obtain any of the championship games at present but below is an interesting ending played between HHliker and Calderwood on Saturday. Hilliker won, but Calderwood • won two out of the five games played. He also made the same score against Boreham. He has now (at the time of writing) to play the winner in the loosers class, so that ihe present indications are

that he will again secnre the championship.

Black, Hilliker 1.3 11.12 13.21. White, Calderwood. to play 5. 18,hjnm White to Play. 18 — 14 26—30. 12—16 16—11 24—20 30—26 21—25 11—7 30—21 26—23 16—19 7—3 23—7 23—9 3—26 3—7 20—16 19—15 Black WTins.

11—15 4—8 11—18 30—26 3—7 24—20 23—19 26—22 8-11 22—15 8 — 11 15 — 18 7 — 11 26 — 22A 7 — 22 28—24 22 — 15 22—15 11—16 27 — 18 11—18 20—11 10—28 B. Wins, A. 25—22 18-15 29-22 11—15 27—23 9—13 32—28 6—9

11.15 21.17 4.8 25.21 17.13 13.6 23.18 12.16 22.17 10.15 11.15 2.18 15.19 17.14 0.11 30,25 18.11 11.2 24.15 8.12 32.27 15,22 9.18 19.23 10.19 27.23 6.10 25.18 23.14 26.19 1.6 6 Q 1 6 ZQ