The Spike or Victoria University College Review June 1918
Chess and Draughts Club
Chess and Draughts Club
After the beginner has mastered the position and moves of the various men, the problem confronting him is that of chess openings.
There are various conventional ways of opening a game of chess, all of which determine, to some extent the type of game that ensues. Knowledge about these openings has, however, become so exact that the deciding point in a contest is rarely reached till the end game. It is very necessary, therefore, that a player should be conversant with the intricacies of this part of the game.
"It would not be easy," an authority tells us, "to define exactly when the end-game in chess begins. Generally speaking, it is that part of the game in which the kings, no longer timidly sheltering themselves, come to the front and assert their powers as fighting men."
Very accurate knowledge of principles is required in endings, and players cannot gain this more surely than by studying problems of the type given above. Members will find collections in the Club Library, which has lately been extended by a donation of books from Professor Garrow.