<<<<<CHESS CHAMPION.>PURDY DEFEATS GOLDSTEIN.>
Exciting Final Game.>
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ADELAIDE, Sunday. — By defeating Goldstein (Victoria) in the sixth game of the Australian championship chess match, Purdy (N.S.W.) scored his third win. He thus wins the match and retains the title. His score was three wins to one, with two games drawn.
The final game was exciting. Goldstein, having failed with an orthodox defence to the Queen's Gambit, chose the double-edged Indian Defence, developing his king's bishop in fianchetto.
Purdy coped with it in simple straightforward style, occupying only three minutes over his first ten moves, while Goldstein took forty minutes for his.
Goldstein complicated the game as his only chance of saving an inferior position.
Purdy, with time to spare, then took forty minutes over one move. It brought him a decisive advantage.
He won three pawns, but Goldstein, resourceful as usual, worked up a dangerous mating net round Purdy's king by exchanging his queen for two rooks.
Purdy's queen was strangely powerless.
He became very short of time, but at the last minute found a way out, and forced a win with his extra material.
The advantage of the first move was a big factor in this contest.
After the first two games, in which each player won once with black pieces, Purdy won both his games with white pieces and just managed to draw both his games with black.
The grimly determined defence in these games saved him from imminent defeat, and when he had the white pieces he pressed home his advantages forcefully except in the second game, in which Goldstein's ingenuity turned the tables.
Complete scores in the series of matches which arose from a quadruple tie in the tournament at Perth have been as follow; —
Goldstein (V.) d. Hastings (N.S.W.) by three wins to nil, with two games drawn.
Purdy (N.S.W.) d. Koshnitsky (N.S.W.) by four wins to one, with nine games drawn.
Purdy is the only player besides the late Spencer Crakanthorp to win a Commonwealth championship since it became a biennial event.>