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'stuck up' by the leg-brank as our own considered peculise, to say the last of of the exisconce of the Chess Club. There batsmen have been, for W. A. Cooperit. However, the closure question is notare others who have gone to the Club rooms has had no successor in Australia; still likely to crop up in six days matches, and have been disappointed to find it it is one thing to be stuck up, and an and all other matters of arrangement deserted. If this happens a few times, it kills ue's interest in the Club, if not in other to be get out, so that we must and management are perfectly. safe in chess; and so, for the sake of the Club I
the new Hon. swait the reports of the first two or three his lands.
hope the new
cretary Will
rally attenders who round himself a few will not only be players but instructors to those beginners who require a little coaching to make them good amateur players, and who, in tins, would entur into. the native management of the Club for the benefit of future newcomers.
matches before we can draw any con-
chisions, and even they will not be final
or convincing. On one point wy may;
rest assured. We may be sceptical as
CHESS COLUMN.
to the bowling, mildly depreciatory CONDUCTED BY BLACK HISHOP. about the latting, but as to the quality Comalcations 'skuld be addressed
of the fielding there can be and is no 'CHESS, CINA MAIL OFFICE.
dout. It may be argued that Barnes" Original Problems should be accompanied powers are unknown, and that Blythe by Salation and Analysis.
A colossal work on chess is said to be in
is no more than useful, but at any rate The Hongkong Chess Club meets etry! coures of publication. It will contain the mety other man is absolutely first-rate, Monday, Wednesby and Thursday, from sesund of even higher quality. The du four fi tuli-past seven pist the Publining more of the leas than 15,000 games, ties of stumper are in Lilley's charge, Ibrary, 15, Pens Puikings.
vul could not be better entrusted, pro- viding that his hands do not give way. He will have no very fast bowling to take, of course, but even a low ball may cauce serions, injury, or a bed and sicious return; hence it could be wished tast a better understudy than Robson oid have been found: not that the lants captain is not good, but hial hmirers would hardly claim for him an equality with Hunter or Storer, Butt or Board. T. L. Taylor, of Yorkshire, be ing a really fine hatsman, would have been an ideal man for the place. So wany pessimistic views have been ex pressed as to the strength of the com oven the Australians have presumed ra express their disappointwont that it is a plensure to be able to write in an
Problem No. 44.
Black.
A
White.
at least it will not come as a surprise White to play and mate in three moved,
honestly hopeful spirit on the subject
and to express the view that to some
if the odd test-ruatch came England's
way but there is one more factor to
be considered than the individual and
The chess enthusiast who has this little brochure. ally rely one thing more- eternity to study it in.
The following game will well repay mination, if only for the brilliant raate thirteen moves
Whire
Jołm F. Barry.
1 PS4
BUY LUPEZ
2 Kt K B3
3 P.Ktă
G Kt--33
Kt-K K
8 Q-Q4
10 Kt Kt
11 Q-24
42· Kt--Q4 13 Q...KIS 14 P-K B 4
15 Castles
Hà K K±ht
17 Kt-B
Solution to Problem No. 43 by Max
IЯ Rx R
general capacity of the men, and that Feigl (5th Prize in the Vienna Froblem
White
Black
1 B-R 8.
1 ExB
2 Q-Kt 3.
2 Any move
3ortmates
1.
1 Any more 2 QxP ch
3 PXQ 3 Bx Pinte Correct solution from C.R.T.
is the question of the voyage and the Tournament) ;- weather. A long sea voyage has a serious effect on some men, and so has extreme heat, though the semi-tropical weather of the past season will have done something to inure our men to hard work under s hot sun, and we need not doubt that the work will be hard and the sun bot. It may be hoped too that catching practice will not be ueglected at the start: the glare of the southern sky has often proved too rouch dinary meeting of the Hongkong Chess for some of the safest catchers, and only Olut, held on Munilay evening, the sugges acclimatisation in combination with plenty of practice will neutralise the tion was made that the Club should change of condition. In Maclaren the oudonvoar to create a revival of interest in
I am pleased to see that at the extraor-
19. Q--K¢ 8 20 B-Q2 31 QR-K 42 P-KRS 23 K-RST 24 K-R2 Kexlit 20 RXP 27.P.-B3 28 K R-KA 29 R-K 7
30 Q-Q.80 #1 Q---R5
Black H. N. Pillsbury,
P-K Kt-OBB K-B3
К КЕХР
Kt--3 P-RG
K-K4 P- KB3 KB FORS
RQ Kt Ag B-K.. P-Q3 K-K:5 P-KBA Castles Pxt PxP T-B3
-BS B-Q5 ch Kt-B7 K-K BP Kt Bx KP
B-RA 3-0 34 Q-KrS
10.B-B 4 ch
11 0-0 2 12 Castles (KR) 13.RXB
14 P-5
15 4
17 Q-83
18. Kt Kt
K-Kt & B-Q3 (u) BxB KQB 3. K1-KA Kt R () F-QB 4 R-B K-Kt()
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White announcoi materin three moves. (4) A very taoy and interesting stand- Binok obviously thoroughly know what he is about, as shown by his up fight. refraining from playing the foferior move of B-QE15. to which temptation meat players succumb in this defence, and by his playing che saperior inre of BQ3 ren dered possible by Whita abstaining from THE the usual continuation of Casting Ros playing R-Kõ, vto
(b) A very natural taove, Black proba bly not anticipating much further danger. after he had deprived Whits of both his bishops, but the attack was successfully experied through by White, as the seque
with a single miner piece, in stronger defence for Black would have boon Q-023, for if then # 16 QR-KBsq, Kt-Bach, winning the exchings would follow
B-B4 PK R3 (a) · (a) Whith hera nzmannced mate in thir- teen moves. As it is easy to miss the way, I leave it to muy renders to discover the
ncate.
The following is one of twenty-one games
ALIER CAMBIO.
side will have a captain whose tempera-chess loedly. This is a most sulable played simultaneously by Mr Gunsberg at ment is perhaps austers rather that proposal, and it speaks for the canestrcas the Reading Chow Club - genial, but whom his men will thor of the members that they have made the oughly trust, respect and obey, while ha has had abundant experience of Austra prosent Chunpion of the Colony, Mr P. W. Ban cricket and cricksters. He is per Sergeant, Hon. Secretary. The Club neels haps sound rather than original, which Active playing cubers as officebeners, soundness is a very valuable quality in and should therefore appoint turce of the more recent arrivals in the Colony to office.
a leavelling team, when priginality is Fresh blood, fresh ideas, fresh activity-all liability to be regarded as eccentricity are needed. There is now in the Colony a Indred some of Maclaren's own views large number of chess players and lovers about the closure and occasionally of the game, who, in spite of the notif about the choice of innings have been catfour at the top of this column, are ignorant
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