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Salient: Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Vol. 24, No. 9. 1961
Chess
Chess
This week's Chess Column, features a game from the Wellington Chess Club Championships of 1961, played between K. M. Steele and W. A. Poole.
| K. M. Steele (White) | W. A. Poole (Black) |
|---|---|
| 1 P-Q4 | P Q4 |
| 2 P K3 | N-KB3 |
| 3 B Q3 | N-B3 |
| Now White should prevent 4 P-K4 oven al the cost all allowing 4 N-QN5. | |
| 4 P-QB3 | P-K4 |
| 5 PxP | NxP |
| 6 B-B2 | B-Q3 |
| 7 N-Q2 | Q-K2 |
| Here, White discovers that the planned 8 P-K4 is too risky and changes to attack on the Black QP, with the intervention of occupying White's Q4 square. | |
| 8 N(Q2)-B3 | B-KN5 |
| 9 P-KR3 | B-R4 |
| 10 P-KN4 | B-N3 |
| 11 BxB | NxB |
| 12 P-N5 | N-K5 |
| 13 QxP | 0-0-0 |
| 14 Q-B5ch. | K-Nl |
| White has committed almost all the errors condemned in elementary texts, he lags in development; his King remains in tho centre; his King's side pawns are shattered and attacked, and his Queen is in danger. 14 Q-RS was safer, but N-B5 still defeats it. | |
| 15 P-KR4 | N-B5 |
| Not now 16 PxN as N-N6ch. wins the Q | |
| 16 N-R3 | N-Q6ch. |
| 17 K-K2 | B-N6 |
| An improvement on 17 N(Q6)xP as 18 R-KN1 then holds the gains to the sacrificed pawn only. | |
| 18 N-Q4 | N(Q6)xP |
| 19 Q-N5 | RxN |
| An improvement on 19 NxR20, N-B6ch. K-Rl 21 NxQ. | |
| 20 NxN | NxN |
| 21 BPxR | NxR |
| 22 B-Q2 | Q-KS |
| 23 R-KNI resigns. | BxP |