April 7, 1882.] 



KNOWLEDGE • 



505 



(Buv €f)f6s Column. 



CAME BY CORRESPONDENCE.— (Confi/i«e(J/.om p. 485.) 



Position after White'.'! 20tli move. 



P to 155. 



CniKP EDITOi:. 



Blick. 

 chess editor. 



30. 1! to Q5 



31. g to R3 



32. Q to R 5 

 3J. Q to K2 

 3 k Q to B3 

 35. K to Bsq 



29. P takes P 



30. P to Bo 



31. Q to Qsq 



32. Kt to B3 



33. Q to KBsq 



34. K to Q4 



35. R takes R 



PROBLEM Xo. 25. 



We think it best to repablish this Problem in an amended form. 



Blace. 



WHITE. 



White to plav, and mate in three moves. 



PROBLEM No. 33. PROBLEM No. 31. 



" Easy and neat." 



By C. H. BROrKELB.AXK. 



TWO KNIGUTS' DEFENCE. 



Wi 



De RiVlKUE. 



1. I' to Kt 



2. Kt to Kn3 



3. B to B 1 

 ■1. Kt to Kt 5 

 5. P takes P 

 G. PtoQ3(n) PtoKiiS 



7. Kt to K5 P to Ko 



8. Q to K1J3 Kt takes B 



9. PtakesKt B to QBl 

 10. P to KR3 (6) Castles 



Blice. 

 MoKPlIY. 

 P to K 1 

 Kt to QB3 

 Kt to B3 

 P toQl 

 Kt to QRl 



White. Black. 



De Riviere. Morphv. 



11. Kt to R2 Kt to R2 (c) 



12. Kt toQ2(<i) P toKB4 



13. KttoKt3 B to Q3 



14. Castles B takes Kt 



15. K takes B P to B5 (e) 

 10. Q takes P KttoKKt4 



17. QtoQ4(/) KttoKB6ch(.,) 



18. P takes Kt Q to R5 



19. R to KRsci B takes P 



20. BtoQ2 R to B3 and wins 



Notes by Mr. J. Gunsbcrg in the Cliess Players' Chronicle. 



(a) A weak cnntinaation of the Two Knights' Defence, and one 

 which, in our opinion, gives Black the advantage. There are varions 

 ways of continuing besides P to Q3, bnt we are satisfied only with 

 the result of one variation, viz., 6B to Kto ch 6P to B3, 7P takes 

 P7P takes P, 8B to K2, as enabling White to retain his advantage. 



(6) Instead of this unsatisfactory move, it has been suggested by 

 Mr. Proctor to play lOP to QB3 ; this jirovides a square of refuge 

 for the Knight on Q I, and also threatens an advance of Pawns on 

 the Queen side ; but even this, in our opinion stronger move, does 

 not quite equalise matters, which, through 6P to Q3, rest on a weak 

 foundation. 



(c) This is against modern '■ principles," as Mr. Potter would call 

 it. The adopted way of continuing for Black is P to QKt4 ; he 

 therebj' tries to weaken the Queen's side, also reiving upon subse- 

 quently playing B to QR3. 



(J) We should have preferred 12B to K3. 



(?) Taking advantage of the position in a forcible manner ; had 

 White not taken the Pawn, his game would, nevertheless, be in a 

 precarious condition. 



(/) Q to Q3 would have afforded a much better defence. 



(ij) This brings the game to a fine conclusion. Wliite has no 

 defence. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

 *#* Please address Che.'i.'s-Editor. 



Dummy. — See answer in No. 20, p. 442. 



John Fainveather. — Pawn on Stli is what you please to make it. 



G. W. — Thanks for good wishes. Have you begun jour games ? 

 Solutions correct. 



H. A. N. — 27, 28, 29 — solutions incorrect, see next number. 



A. H. Empson r. G. Tow. 



H. A. N., J. F. Washbrook, J. Griffiths, A, B. Palmer, .John 

 Fainveather.— We have corrected and republished this problem 

 this week. 



Correspondents whose opponents have not replied to their games 

 can have fresh opponents on application. 



Sir, — I see by the " Answers to Con-cspondents " that there are 

 a good many dissatisfied spirits [unreasonable jieoplo I — Ed.] 

 amongst the subscribers to KxowLEnGE. Some want more of one 

 thing, and some more of another, and they all seem to find some- 

 thing that (in their opinion) might be done away with. Now, I, for 

 one, should be sorry to see any of these radical changes, as I think 

 Knowledge is well worth the money, even if taken only for one 

 subject. I am quite satisfied that there are higher-priced papers 

 with a far worse Chess column, and that, I must say, has most 

 attractions for Yours truly, " G. W. 



White to 



Whitk. White. 



play and mate in three. Wliitc to play and mate in three. 



Dk. Ciievxe states of Sir Isaac Newton, that when he applied 

 himself to the investigation of light and colour, to quicken his 

 faculties and enable him to Sx his attention, he confined himself all 

 the time to a small quantity of breiid «-ith a little sack and water, 

 without any regulation, except that he took a little whenever he 



felt his animal spirits flag The happy medium whicli Newton 



endeavoured to maintain, was just that which would preseiwe 

 the blood in the fittest state for the purposes of the mind, while 

 intently acting on the brain; and probably not a little of the 

 splendid clearaess of his demonstration may be attributed to the 

 success with which he controlled all his bod'ily projiensities, by the 

 moderation which he invariably observed in"the management of 

 his stomach.— Extract from " The Use of the Body in Relation to 

 the Mind." 1846. By George Moore, M.D., Member of the 

 Royal College of Physicians. 



