CHESS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 18

CHESS

CHAMPIONSHIP OF NEW

ZEALAND

title e(?hTih' ainth t. ourne/ for the above title (which came into being at Christchurch on 4th September, 1579) is to be HidaV\^hTXn. dT gA^ e Sh iStX gress during the forenoon of Boxing Day bmce the various nominations were put>l lished in our issue of 4th instant, there have been two withdrawals and o' substitution. The entry list is therefore now as follows:—J. A. Erskine (present champion), Southland CCj CJS £ (champion of N.S.W.), private entry- G Gundersen (champion of Victoria), pri^ OTM 61? T^ 7'j & ffre? s (Auckland UC.), E Rutherford (Stratford), L. Pleasants and R. O Scott (Wanganui CCJ, S- ,£• Anderson (Wellington C.C.), F. X Selling, W. J. Fairburn, and K. Beyer (Wellington W.M. Club , E. E fficks | Dd H- T,IW (Ngai ° C-6-)' and X H Severne (Nelson C.C.). Four of these competitors are making a first appearance, viz.. Messrs Gundersen, Topp, Beyer and Rev. Jeffreys. This full-round contest comprises 91 games, i.e., thirteen rounds of seven games each. It is expected to finish on Monday, 6th January. Mr Paul Kummer, of Masterton, who had to reluctantly withdraw his entry last week, lias added to his previous kindnesses by once move donating £2 2s for a Brilliancy t ize. The participation of two distinguished oversea players is naturally causing chess players and their friends in all parts of New Zealand to look forward with exceptional interest to the forthcoming tournej- which, it may be added, is Wanganuis second championship congress. When the previous Wanganui congress was held thirty-four years ago, it was a double triumph for Rangitikei, the championship being won by Mr. (afterwards Brigadier-General) W. Meldrum (then of Hunterville), and the second prize was annexed by O. C, Pleasants (Halcombe). On that occasion the veteran of the party was the late Mr. Henry Hookham, of Christchurcb (the Dominion's first champion), aged seventy-one, and the colt was Mr H. Andersen, also of Christ?L «f «Ti?' 96w Ongl"eS--^,as the puhlication of "Ihe Wanganui Chess Club Journal, which gave excellent reports of the proceedings day by day during the currency of the tourney (price one penny). The Bnlhancy Prize of that tourney was won by-the late Mr. John Mouat, of Dunedin, who, as chess editor of the "Otago Witness," turned his knowledge of French and German to good account.