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KNOWLEDGE 



[Mabch 1, 1892, 



(q) Apart, perhaps, from their 28th move, the Liverpool 

 players conducted their attack in the finest possible style. 

 Black, perhaps, missed their chance at the 18th move, but 

 afterwards could not have done more than they did. They 

 could only wait to be crushed. 



Position after Black's 27th move. 

 Black. 



I, I :i^: W 



U ■ pi ■ ^ 



■ if M^H 



White. 



Cliess Endinip. By E. Feeeboeough. (Messrs. Kegau 

 Paul & Co.) — This work is a valuable addition to chess 

 literature. Previously to its publication, the only modern 

 treatise on end-games in the English language was that of 

 Horwitz, comprising a collection of positions by Kling and 

 Horwitz. These, however beautiful as problems or semi- 

 problems, were for the most part hardly genuine end-games, 

 the positions being unlikely to occur in actual play. The 

 student was therefore driven to rely on the work of Herr 

 Berger, the great German authority on endings ; but at the 

 same time he must have felt the want of something written 

 in his native tongue, and (shall we say ?) a little shorter. 

 This want has been supplied by Mr. Freeborough, who, 

 while of course largely indebted to the above-mentioned 

 treatises, has succeeded in avoiding the defects of both. 

 The book contains about 550 diagrams, of which the 

 respectable proportion of 140 are devoted to King and 

 Pawn Endings — by far the most important in our opinion. 

 These are rightly placed first, in their natural position, not 

 relegated to the end, as in Berger's work. The book, as 

 far as we have examined it, is singularly free from misprints, 

 the bane of Horwitz's work. We have noticed, however, 

 two or three, and give them below, together with some 

 suggested amplifications : — 



No. 10.— Note 1. "If 2. ... P to Kt4ch ; 3. 

 Add here, " And if then 3. . . . P to E4 ; 4. . . 

 as in No. 14." In the same note, after the 



K to Kt3." 

 . K to Kt2, 

 words " If 



otherwise to KtS," a variation might be given : cf/., 2. . . . 

 P to Kt4 ; 3. K to Kt3, P to B5 ^4. K to Kt4, P'to R4ch ; 

 5. K to B3, and wins. 



No. 15. — Here there is an error of some kind. The note 

 implies that Black (with the move) wins by P to B4ch ; 

 White however wins by K to 113. 



No. 26. — " White wins through being able to advance his 

 Pawn one or two squares " : i.e., erni without the mure. 

 With the move he wins apart from this privilege by 

 P to KtS. 



No. 31. — Black should have played 3. ... P to Kt5, and 

 drawn. 



No. 34.— Add perhaps, If 1. ... K to Q2 ; 2. P to BG. 



No. 40. — Should be carried out further, the position, as 

 Mr. Freeborough leaves it, being very instructive, and the 

 win for Black not too obvious. 



Position after Black's third move. 



White now plays 4. K to E(!. Black now wins as 

 follows : 4. . . . KxP; (K to Q5 only draws. For K to 

 B5 see a.) 5. P to KtS (if 5. K to Kt7, P to B4 !). 5. . . . 

 K to B5 ! ; 6. K to E4, K to B4 ; 7. K to E5 !, P to B3 ! ; 

 8. P X P, K X P and wins. 



(a.) The following attempt to win would result in loss. 

 After 4. K to EG, K to B5 ? ; 6. P to KtS, K to KtS ; 

 6. P to K5 !, K to B4 ; 7. K to Kt7, K to K3 ; 8. K to B8, 

 and wins. 



No. 43, last note. Here, too, 

 be continued : c//., " For if 3. . 

 and if then both sides queen a 

 Queen in three moves. Again, 

 K to K4, K to B2 ; 5. K to Q5, 



the analysis might well 

 . Pto KtS ; 4. KtoQS; 

 Pawn, White wins the 



if 3. ... K to K3 ; 4. 



&c. 



No. 130. — Here, too, an error has crept in to the last 

 note. 3. ... P to Kt3 loses for Black by 4. P to KE4, 

 P to Kt4 ; S. Px P, K to Bsq ; 6. P to Kt6 and wins. 



No. 148. — In this position a mate in three moves appears 

 to have been overlooked. 



No. 394. — The diagram is incorrect. White can mate 

 in 07W move. 



It is hoped that the above notes may be of some slight 

 value to readers of the work, or even to the editor of it 

 himself in the not unlikely event of future editions. It 

 need only be said, in conclusion, that the arrangement of 

 the whole book is lucid, the diagrams abundant and well- 

 placed, and the printing both accurate and excellent. 



Contents of No. 7G. 



British Mosses. By the Kt. Hon. 

 Lord Justice Fry, P.E.S., 

 P.S.A., F.L.S 



The Chemical Element Carbon. 

 By Vaughan Cornish, B.Sc, 



f'c s 



What' is an Ant? By ' E."a! 

 Butler 



The Canons of Colorado. By the 

 Eev. H. N. Hutchinson, B.A., 

 F.G.S. niustrated by Photo- 

 gr.ai>h 



27 



Letters:-T. S. Barrett; W. H. 



S. Monck 



Notices of Books 



The Eelative Brightness of the 



Planets. By J. E. Gore, 



F.E.A.S 



Periodical Comete dne in 1892. 



By W. T. Lynn, B.A., P.R.A.S, 

 The Face of the Sky for February. 



By Herbert Sadler, P.E.A.S.. 

 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 



B.A.Oxon 



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