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♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[Dec. 21, 1883. 



I look up Mr. Euskin's remarks about me Y You tell me they are 

 wautiug ID grace and courtesy. Has either quality been shown in 

 anything Mr. Kuakin (or rather he who was Ruskin) has published 

 for the last five years ? Were the remarks now by my elbow 1 

 should hardly deem it worth while to turn to them. Do we not know 

 the tone ? He now groans constantly about some one. Tyndall and 

 Darwin, Spencer and Carlyle, have had their turn ; no one but Mr. 

 Whistler ever took any notice. Why should I i — J. W. S. Please 

 send. — E. Wells. Have tried to do as much in my little work 

 (pubhshed by the S.P.C.K.)— H. H. Many thanks.— A. M. MiT- 

 CHiso.N. Shortly : see " Gossip." — J. C. Bryan't. That writer is a 

 " her," not a " him." Your letter reserved for publication. 



&\ix Cl)r55 Coiumiu 



By Mephisto. 



THE BOOK OF THE TOUENAMENT. 



Third Notice. 



Arranged according to openings, the 242 games of the Major 

 Tournament rank as follows :— 



Irregular 63 



Rny Lopez 51 



French 50 



Giuoco Piano 18 



Sicilian 17 



Four Knights 7 



Three Knights I 



Steinitz Gambit -1 



Scotch Gambit 4 



Evans Gambit 4 



Miscellaneous 20 



The term "irregular opening" is somewhat too vague. By far 

 the largest proportion of these games were Queen's side openings, 

 that is, where the ultimate development of the opening proceeds 

 on the Queen's side, although the first moves may vary, as, for 

 example: — 1. Kt to KB3, as frequently played by Zukertort; or 

 1. P to QB4, called the English opening; or 1. P to K3, practised 

 by Mason ; or 1. P to Q4, leading to the Queen's gambit, and 

 favoured by Steinitz. Most of these openings led to similar and 

 well-known positions. A few games were opened with 1. P to 

 KB4, mostly by Bird, while but very few games were irregularly 

 opened, in the real sense of the word. 



Over 200 of these games were began with safe openings. The 

 gambit was adopted in only about twenty cases. The Euy Lopez 

 deservedly heads the list of regular openings. 



Zukei'tort's games — annotated by himself — furnish an interesting 

 study of this opening. Game 14, between Winawer and Zukertort, 

 brings matters to a crisis in a main variation of this opening, as the 

 game will show :— 1. P to K4, P to K4. 2. Kt to KB3, Kt to QB3. 

 3. B to Kt5, Kt to B3. 4. Castles, Kt takes P. 5. P to Q4, P lo 

 QR3 (analysed by Professor Berger, of Giaz, and superior to B to 

 K2, for which move vide Game 13, between Zukertort and Winaw-er) . 



6. B takes Kt (6. B to Q3, instead, would be met bv P to Q4. 



7. P to B4, B to KKto, i-c.) QP takes B. 7. Q to K2, B to KB4. 

 Winawer here continued with 8. P to KKt4, which, however, did 

 not lead to an)' superiority of position. Zukertort here gives 



8. P takes P, remarking that this would about ei|ualise the game, 

 in which case, of course, the attack of the first move has failed. 

 This failure confines the attack within narrower limits, i.e.. 1. P to 

 K4, Pto K4. 2. KKt to B3, QKt to B3. 3. B to Kt5, Kt to B3. 

 To avoid the former variation. White can only continue with 

 either 4. Kt to B3, leading into a tame variation of the Four 

 Knight's Game {ride Game 4 between Mackenzie and Zukertort), 

 or 4. P to Q,3, which is the stronger move, and was played against 

 Zukertort in Game 19 by English, of Vienna, who is acknowledged 

 to be a thorough master of the Euy Lopez. Now in order to defend 

 the threatened KP, Black has, apparently, only one good move, 

 that is 4. P to Q3 (4. B to B4, adopted by Rosenthal against 

 Steinitz, vide Game 57, is not considered good by the latter player). 

 After 4. P to Q3, P to Q3, English continued as follows against 

 Zukertort :— 5. Kt to B3, P to KKt3. 6. P lo KE3, B to" Kt2. 

 7. B to K3, B to Q2. 8. Q to Q2, P to KR3. 0. Castles, KR, and 

 White has a superior development. Zukertort here suggests for 

 Black 9. P to KKt4, to be followed by Kt to K2 and Kt3, but we 

 think even then White would obtain a good game by 10. P to Q4, 

 &c. Zukertort must have been of the same opinion, for he never 

 again faced this variation, but became a convert to the defence of 

 3. P to QR3 in prefei-ence, which he adopted in all his subsequent 

 Buy Lopez defences, vide Game 25, again.st Steinitz ; Game 26, 

 against Winawer ; Game 29, against Rosenthal ; and Game 30, 

 against T\I^cken>■.i^^ 



SOLUTIONS. 



Problem, No. 108, by B. G. Laws, p. 34.0. 



Author's Solciion. 



1. Kt to Kt8 K to Q4, or 



2. Q to KR7 any move 



3. Q mates accordingly 



1. P to Q4 



2. Q to QB7(ch) K to Q5 



3. Q takes P, mate 



1. 



2. Q to QB7 



3. B to Q3, matt 

 1. 



Q to QKt7 



K toKt4 

 anything 



PtoB6 

 anything 



3. Q mates accordingly 

 Problem, No. 109, by C. Planck, p. 354. 



1. B to Q6 P takes B 1. K takes Kt («) 



2. Kt to B3(ch) K to B4 (a) 2. Q to K5(ch) K to B6 



3. Q to Kt sq, mate 3. Q to K2, mate 



(a) K to K3 (a) K to K3 



3. B takes P, mate 2. B to QB4(ch) K to B4 



3. Kt to Kt3, mate 



PROBLEM No. 110. 



By Henry Beistow. 



Black. 



White. 

 White to play and mate in two moves. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*«* Please address Chess Editor. 



J . Canaway. — Castling is not allowed in Tourney Problems, and 

 is not resorted to by most composers. 

 Berrow, W. — Solutions correct. 



Contents of Iso. 111. 



PAeB 



The Earth -FlattenerB' ChalleDge. 



(Il/us.) Bt R. a. Proctor Ml 



The Eclipse of Last May. (lilui.) 3t)3 



Time Turned Back 3«iS 



Instinct 367 i Correspondence : The Extraordinary 



ow is a Life Assurance Society Sunset? — Lunar Shadows — Sunda 



Worked? 358 Straits Eruption— Great Sea-vtaTe 



How to See — Nature's i ^Moon's Motion — Saturn, &c. 



PAGB 



A Naturalist's Year : Robins Come 

 for Crumbs. Bv Grant Allen ... 355 



The Zone of Small Planets. By 

 E. A. Procto 



Energy, &c 359 I Our Chess Colu 



367 



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