DRAUGHTS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 20, 30 July 1920, Page 6

DRAUGHTS.

(By F. Hutchins.)

Draughts Club meets in Athenaeum smoke room on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. PROBLEM 20. (By "Slocum. ") Black 13, 23, King 8.

White 30, Kings 29 and 31. White to play and win. Another neat one from the Rev. J, Collie's scrap book. SGLUTION TO PROBLEM 19.

Black 13, 20, 22. White 30, Kings 28 and 29. White to play and win. 28.32, 20.24, 32.28, 24.27, 28.24, 27.32, 24.19, 32.27, 30.25, 22.26, 19.23, 27.18, 25.22. White wins. The following game, an "Ayrshire Lassie," was played in the Athenaeum last week in the Club tourney, befcween Mr W. rVjrmpr ( TUrLrTr \ nnr? TT T a ( Wli i )

*Unusual. (a) 25.22, 18.25, 29.22 better here. ,(b) Looks good, preventing the cut 14. 17, but as will be seen from subsequent play it would have been better to have allowed the cut. The position is an interesting one and I invite analysis and criticism. Criticism) solutions, etc., to be addressed ,to "Draughts Editor," 28 Biggar street. (c) 26.22, 12.16, 19.3, 10.28, 22.15, 28.32, 3.7. Draw. "WHY WOMEN CANNOT PEAY DRAUGHTS!" An American contemporary some time ago commented as follows on the fact that all great proficients in draughts and chess have been men, "To become proficient in either game one must have plenty of time for practice. But surely women have plenty of time. All that - they do is to start the kitchen fire in the morning when they rise; to get breakfast; to make the children ready for scbool ; to wash the dishes; to sweep and dust the house ; to make the beds; to scrub the kitchen ; to darn socks and stockings ; to mend clothes ; to do the marketing; to get the clothes ready for wash; often, to do their own wasliing and ironing; to prepare the things for dinner ; to have dinner, and again to wash the dishes; to get the children to bed; to do some more darning and patehing; to wait on their husbands until the husbands go to work in the morning ; to keep themselves daintily dressed all through the various dnties of the day; and to be ready, smilingly, and without trace of fatigue, to entertain their husbands when the work of the day is done. With this little amount of work to do it does seem to be a wonder that women who have developed into expert draughts and chess players have been so few in number. There must surely be something in the games that appeals only to the male mind."

11.15 22.15 7.10 26.22 24.20 11.18 24.19 12.16 8.11 30.26 3.7 19.12 28.24 10. 14* 20.16 15.19 4.8 26.23a 1.5 23.16 23.19 2.7 16.11b 18.23 15.18 31.26 7.16 27.18 22.15 9.13 28,24 20.27 11.18 32.28 16.20 Blapk 26.22 5.9 15.11c wins. 7.11 19.15 8.15