The Westminster Budget from London, Greater London, England • Page 46

44 THE WESTMINSTER BUDGET DECEMBER 15, 1899 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9. "The score in the Championship Tournament of the City of London Chess Club is as follows Drawn. Won. Lawrence 6 Loman 5 1 lit. Jacobs 4 Ward 5 Lost.

1 2 1 Drawn. Won. Hd. Jacobs 4 Allcock 3 1 Physick 3 1 Jones 2 3 The Spread Eagle beat the Athenaeum in an A Division match by twelve games to eight. Lost.

3 1 2 1 On the 17th inst. commences the Kalisch Tournament in Vienna, best Austrian players have entered for it. The Mr. Philip H. Williams, of 36, Downshire-hill, Hampstead, desires to make it known that he has a number of copies of his small collection of problems for sale at Is.

each, and that he will forward such copies post free on receipt of postal orders. He intends to apply the whole receipts to the Daily Telegraph Shilling Fund for the Transvaal War. He proposes to leave the offer open until December 23. A correspondent sends us the following interesting game, played nearly half a century ago between the late Professor Anderssen and the late Mr. Lowenthal: BISHOP'S GAMBIT.

Anderssen. White. 1. PtoK4 2. to KB4 3.

to B4 4. 5. Kt to KB3 6. Kt 7. Castles 8.

PtoQ4 9. Kt to B3 10. Kt to K2 11. to B4 12. PtoQ5 13.

KK't to Q4 14. 15. to sq 16. to Kt sq 17. QR'xQ 18.

to Kt4 19. Kt to QB3 20. 21. Kt to B6 22. to Kt5 23.

Kt to K7 ch 24. Kt 25. Kt to K4 26. 27. to QB sq 28.

to QR4 29. Kt to Kt5 30. RP Lowenthal. Black, White. to K4 31.

Kt to K4 Px 32. Kt to Q4 .33. Kt to B5 Kt to KB3 34. to B2 Kt 35. to K2 QxP 36.

Kt to Kt3 to Q3 37. to Kt sq Castles 38. to K6 to KB4 39. to QB7 Kt to B3 40. Kt to sq Pto QKt3 41.

Kt to K2 42. to K5 43. to H2 to QB4 44. to B3 to KKt5 45. Kt to K3 QxQ 46.

to B4 QR to sq 47. to Q6 to Q3 48. Kt to B4 Kt to Kt3 49. Kt to K5 50. Kt to Q2 51.

to R6 KttoK4 52. to B5 to sq 53. to R7 ch Kt 54. to R4 Kt 55. to Kt4 56.

to R5 to sq 57. to B4 to KR3 58. to R2 Kt to K4 59. to KB2 to B5 60. to K5, and Lowenthal.

Black. to K3 to Kt3 to K5 Kt to Q6 to B3 to Kt5 to QB5 to B8 ch BxRP Kt Kt to K7 ch Kt to B5 Kt to R4 KttoB3 to Q2 to Kt sq to sq to K2 Kt Kt Kt to sq to B2 to Kt sq to R2 KttoKt3 Kt to R5 ch to Kt sq to R2 to Kt4 ch ultimately drawn 3. Kt to KB3 was Lowenthal's recommendation. It is a safe defence, and may be adopted because it is less complicated than the to R5 variation. Black should not Castle, but try to defend the Gambit Pawn after 8.

to Q4 with to KR4, followed at moment by to KKt4. In answer to check with either plays the to sq or to sq, with chances of a later on. He might, perhaps, still have ventured upon 10. Kt to K2, to KKt4. Against an opponent Lowenthal played more cautiously, giving up the desirous as second player to get an even game, game after the loss of the Pawn and the forced Queens, having weakened his position with to left full scope for the manoeuvre of White's-Knights, have tried 17 Kt; 18.

Kt Kt, to Q3; to defend afterwards the isolated Pawn, whilst the opportune or Black ounter-atfack to KR4; like Anderssen Gambit Pawn, being But he has no even exchange of QKt3, which He could 19. he actually lost the Exchange. The latter course he preferred to 22... Kt, as after 23. QP the passed Pawn would have been too strong, even without o'her contingencies which are glaringly obvious.

Black plays remarkably well afterwards, and the game becomes highly interesting, commencing with P. If 27. then to R6, winning back the Exchange. He made a gallant effort, no doubt, but White did not play the best moves. We find, for instance, that after to could have won with 50.

Kt, 51. Kt Kt; 52. to B5, to K2 53. to Kt6, game is interesting even to the very last move, and a legitimate draw. A smart little game from the London International Tournament: QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING.

The S. Tinsley. White. 1. PtoQ4 to K3 to Q3 to QB3 Kt to K2 to KR3 Castles to B2 Kt to B4 to B3 Kt to Q2 Kt to B3 Kt to K5 2.

3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

13. 14. C. Schlechter. Black.

to Q4 15. Kt to KB3 16. KttcB3 17. to K4 18. to Q3 19.

Castles 20. to K5 21. KttoK2 22. to B3 23. to B2 24.

KtxP 25. PtoKB4 26. to sq to KKt4 S. Tinsley. White.

Kt (B4) to Q3 Kt Kt to Q2 Kt to B2 RtoKsq to B4 to B5 to Kt4 to K4 Px Kt to K3 Resigns C. Schlechter. Black. Kt to Kt3 Kt to B2 Kt to Kt6 to sq to Q3, Q. to K2 to Kt5 Kt to R5 BP to R7 ch It is a well-known fact (difficult to explain) that the notion prevails amongst players who are not familiar with the Openings that they can take the strong 1 player out of the Books by resorting to irregularities in the opening moves.

Instead of taking the opponent out of the books, however, they take themselves out of the books. Now, Mr. Tinsley knows the opening moves ot the QP openings as well as any master, yet he will adopt Fianchettos and all sorts of devices except the recognised best for having been analysed and tried in practic il play by the foremost masters. In the above game he starts with 2. to K3, and instead of continuing with to KB4, the Stonewall, he played 3.

to QB3, allowing Black to open his game with to K4. Further, he weakens his King's sides (intending to Castle KR) with the useless to KR3 next he neglects to notice Black's plan after to B2, it being obvious that he intends to Q3, followed by to KKt4. He had a simple means of providing for this with 12. Kt, 13. Kt to Q2, to B4 14.

to B2, to Q3; 15. Kt to sq, guarding the mate after to KKt4, After seventeen moves the position has only to be glanced at to see that White's game is untenable. His pieces are out of play, whilst Black has a fine attack, and all his forces handy for the final assault. Mr. Loyd's problem deserves a careful study from the point of view of problem construction.

This week's problem will be found puzzling to many of our solvers, although only a two-mover. PROBLEM NO. 189. By C. of Sunbury.

BLACK (four pieces). WHITE (five pieces). White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 188.

1. to Kt4 ch, to B4 2. e.p. dis ch mates. THE YOUNGEST CAPITAL IN EUROPE.

Paris is old, but its houses are young," writes a correspondent. "The half of Parisian houses have hardly been in existence for twenty-five years that is to say, the lifetime of a horse. Not one in fifteen can count a hundred and fifty birthdays, the age of trees in France when cut down for timber. In the French capital the majority of inhabitants are older than the dwellings they occupy. If considered from this point of view, Paris is the newest of European capitals it is also the loftiest in the matter of house-tops.

Whilst in Berlin and Vienna five- storied houses are rare, in Paris seven stories are common. Curiously enough, there is an ascending scale of height from the suburbs to the heart of the city whilst beyond the fortifications 650 houses out of 1,000 have one or two stories only, within the zone of old Paris 950 houses out of 1,000 have from four to six stories. These and many other interesting facts are told us by M. D'Avenel, the indefatigable and entertaining statistician of France, ancient and modern. (See 1 Le Mecanisme de la third series)..