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26 THE WESTMINSTER RVDGE7 APRIL 1897 The following specimen of stvie supplies an. excellent contrast to the sapping ajnd mining in his with Makovetz, published last, week The City of London Chess Club was successful by 10 to 7 in its annual encounter with the St. George's Chess Club. Both clubs mustered powerful teams. PROBLEM No.

51. By Philip H. Williams. BLACK. R.

Charbiisek. White; 1. PtoK4 2. Pto Q4 3. PtoQB3 4.

to QB4 5. Kt to KB3 6. KtxP 7. Castles 8. 9.

KtxP 10. to K5 DANISH Wollner. Black. PtoK4 PxP Kt to KB3 to B4 PtoQ3 Castles to KR3 Kt Kt to Kt5 Charousek. Whitec 11.

to K6 12. ch 13. to B4 (b) 14. to K2 15. to sq QR to sq to K8 ch.

16. 17. 18. 19. Fx ch (becg.

Q) BxQP Mate Wollner. Black. to R5 to sq Kt BP Kt to Kt5 dis ch, to Q2 KttoB3 RxQ (a) The leader of a forcing combination that.takes Black by surprise. (b) With an eye to the pretty aid which he relies, and-not in vain, Black assistance in opening the KB file. WHITE.

White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 50. Whit e. Black.

1. to B7. 1. Any move. 2.

or Kt matesi glVe 1 the fourteenth gamei of the stubbornly-fought Pillsbury- Showalter match, the score in which stan ds 7 all, and 3 draws PpNZIANI. H. N. Pillsburv! J. w.

Showalter. White. (J- 1. '2. 3.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

9. ,10. 11. 12: 13. .14.

17. 18. 19. ,20. 21.

'22. 23. M. 25. 127.

'29. 30. W. Showalter. White.

to K4 Kt to KB3 to B3 to R4 to Kt5 PxP Castles to Q4 P.x Kt to B3 Kt to sq ch to B4 (c) to B4 to Kt3 Kt to R4 Kt to B5 to K5 to K3 BxKBP ch to KKt5 to Kt3 BtoKt6 to K5 (e) to K6 QxQ PxKt to Q4 N. Pillsbury. Black. to K4 32. Kt to QB3 33.

PtoQ4 34. to B3 35. KKt to K2 36. QxP 37. BtoQ2(a) 38.

PxP 39. Kt to K4 40. Kt Kt ch 41. to KB4 42. PtoQR3 43.

QxB 44. Castles 45. KttoKt3 46. to Q3 47. to Kt sq 48.

Kt 49. to B4 50. Kt to R5 51. PtoB5(d) 52. to R6 53.

KtoRsq 54. RxP 55. to Q2 56. Kt to B4 RtoQ4 57. Kt 58.

RxQ 59. to Q7 60. RtoQBsq 61. II. to B3 PtoK4 to KB sq to B2 KxR to Kt3 to Kt4 to B4 to K5 (f) to KR4 Pto R3 PxR, to B4 to Kt3 to R4 Pto R5 to B6 to K6 to Q5 to B5 to Kt6 KxP to R7 to R6 to R8 to Kt8 to Kt7 Resigns N.

Pillsbury. Black. to K7 to sq PtoKKt3 to Kt sq K.toBsq RtoBsq to sq to R3 to Q2 RxB(g) to K3 to QKt4 to Kt4ch P.x KxP to Kt5 KxP to Q5 to B6 to B6 to Kt6 to Kt7 to Kt8 (Queen's) to B5 to K5 ch to sq ch to Kt4 ch (a) At last Pillsbury adopts the right variation-whichgtves Black the better game. Here perhaps to G5 would maintain the attack. i A 4ange of queens would obviously leave White with a hopeless endgame.

(d) This sacrifice initiates a winning attack. i( (e) White has to submit to the loss of the exchange, wins. (0 A te this White loses speedily, made winning very difficult for Black. If to, Kt5, to Q3 to B3 in order to play to B5 would have The folio wing, game, apart from Black's brilliancy, is interesting oa account of the march of his king across the board in search of a. mate DUTCH GAME.

J. Kleczynski. J. Kleczynski; White. 1.

to Q4 2. to Kt5 3. to R4 4. to K3 (a) 5. to K2 6.

to Kt3 7. to QB4 8. Kt to QB3 9. Kt to B3 10. Castles 11.

to Kt3 12. KtxKt 13. PxP 14. PxP 15. PxP 16.

to B5dis ch 17. to QB4 18. BxBch 19. PxP 20. QxP A.

Black. PtoKB4 to KR3 to KKt4 Kt to KB3 to Kt2 Castles to K3 to Kt3 PtoQ4 Kt to K5 to Kt5 KKt QP Kt to Kt2 (b) to Q4 to B3 QxB to B6 White. 21. to Kt7 22. 23.

RP 24. Kt ch 25. to K8 26. Q.xR 27.. to.

Kt2 28. KtoKtsq(d) 29. QR to sq 30. to B2 (e) 31; KR to sq 32. RxP 33.

to sq 34. QR to B3 35. to sq 36. to B5 37. Rto B4 (f) 38.

to QKt4 Resigns A. Black. PtoB5 PxB to B4 to R2 R4 QxQ to Q4 ch to B6 to Kt3 to R4 to Kt5 to R6 Bto sq to K2 Bto Kt4 to K2 to R4 PtoR5 (a) One rarely sees the Fools Mate threatened in cold print. (b) Better than taking the which paralysed his QB and gave White a promisin attack. (c) White gets a pawn equivalent for his knight, but he could not be expected to foresee that Black could now sacrifice almost everything to one idea, that of winning.

(d) If 28. to B3 then to B4. (e) This rook should have gone to B5 to cut the king (f) To prevent to Kt5 38. to sq, tc sq, A LADIES' INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS. The president and members of the Ladies' Chess Club have pleasure in announcing that a Ladies' International Chess Congress, in com-, memoration of her Majesty's unique reign, will be held at the Hotel Cecil on June 22 and following days.

Princess Charles of Denmark has been pleased to consent to become patroness of the congress, and among those who have already conferred their patronage are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Russell), the Earl of Dartrey, Baron Albert de Rothschild, Sir George Newnes, the Right Honourable Horace Plunkett, L. Atherley- Jones, Q.C., M.P., II. M.P., R. M'Kenna, M.P., Joha Parnell, M.P., Mr. Sherriff Spdns, Messrs.

A. Mocatta (President City of London C.C.), Horace Chapman Hastings C.C.), W. J. McLellan (President Rochester C.C.), F. G.

Naumann (President Sydenham C.C.), Grantham Williams (President Lewisham C.C.), Thomas Hewitt, Walter Robinson, Arnous de Riviere, Rev. J. H. Ellis, J. H.

Mortimer, J. Ryan, B.A., L. Hofifer, H. S. Leonard, H.

E. Dbbell, A. Hunter, J. T. Heppell, E.

N. Frankenstein, Dr. Ballard, and many of the chess masters, including Herr N. Pillsbury, J. H.

Blackburne, J. Mieses, The prize list will be: 1st, £60 (given by Sir George Newnes); 2nd, £50; 3rd, £40 4th, £30; 5th, £20 6th, £15.. A special brilliancy prize, £20, (given by Baron Albert de Rothschild), and other awards. It is expected that the list of competitors will include representatives, hot only of America and the but also of the Principalities of the United Kingdom, and ladies who desire to compete are invited, to submit their names to the committee by formal application to the hon. secretary before May 8.

The competition will be governed by the rules of the British Chess Code. The selected competitors will play in one section. Two games per day, with a time limit of twenty moves per hour. The hours of play will be 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m.

to 11 p.m. The entrance fee for accepted competitors will be two guineas. Mrs. Rhoda A. Bowles, the hon.

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