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KNOVSTLEDGE 



[September 1, 1887. 



star of the 5th magnitude, will disappear at the dark limb at 

 llh. 27m., at a vertical angle o£ 125°; but, as in the previous case, 

 the moon will have set prior to its reappearace. On the 26th B.A.c. 

 7053, of the 5ith magnitude, will disappear at the dark limb of the 

 moon at 5h. 35m. p M., at an angle from her vertex of 73°. It will 

 reappear at her bright limb at 6h. 55m. P.M., at an angle of 270° 

 from her vertex. One minute after its disappearance, another star 

 of the 5Ath magnitude, o Capricorni, will disappear at exactly 

 the same spot in the lunar limb, as B.A.c. 7053 itself, re- 

 appearing simultaneously with it at the bright limb, at a vertical 

 angle of 2011°. On the sam;; night, one minute after mid- 

 night, V Capricorni, also of the 5ith magnitude, will disap- 

 pear at the dark limb at a vertical angle of 93° ; but the re- 

 appearance will take place below our horizon. Finally, on the 2Stb, 

 42 Aquarii, a 6th magnitude star, will disappear at the dark limb of 

 the moon at 10b. 14m. P.M., at an angle of 65° from her vertex. 

 Its reappearance will happen at llh. Im. P.M. at her bright limb, at 

 a vertical angle of 1°. At noon to-day the moon is in Aquarius, 

 through which constellation she is travelling until 9 A.M on the 3rd, 

 when she enters Pisces (" The Seasons Pictured," plate xxii.). Here 

 she continues until lOh. A.M. on the 4th, when she passes into Cetus. 

 Skirting the confines of the two constellations, she re-emerges in 

 Pisces at noon on the 5th, only, however, to re-enter Cetus at 

 llh. A.M. on the 6th. She finally quits Cetus at 7h. A.M. on the 7th, 

 and crosses into Aries (" The Seasons Pictured," plate sxiii.). At 

 10 A.M. on the Sth she leaves Aries for Taurus, and is passing 

 through it until 8h. A.M. on the 11th, at which hour she arrives at 

 the northern prolongation of Orion. It takes her until 7 o'clock 

 the same evening to cross this, and she then comes out in Gemini. 

 By 1 P.M. on the 13th she has traversed the last-named constellation 

 and passed into Cancer (" The Seasons Pictured," plate xxiv.). 

 Her journey through Cancer is completed by Ih. A.M. on the 15th, 

 when she enters Leo. Here she remains until lOh. 30m. A.M. on 

 the 17th, at which hour she quits Leo for Virgo ("The Seasons 

 Pictured," plate xxv.), her journey through which terminates at 

 oh. 30m. A.M. on the 20th, when .she crosses into Libra (" The Seasons 

 Pictured," plate xxvi.). As she travels through Libra she arrives at 

 midnight on the 21st on the western edge of the narrow northern 

 spike of Scorpio. Eight and a half hours later she has crossed 

 this and entered Ophiuchus. She leaves Ophiuohus at Ih. a.m. on 

 the 24th for Sagittarius, and Sagittarius in turn for Capricornus at 

 Uh. 30m. A.M. on the 26th (" The Seasons Pictured," plate xxi.). 

 At 1 Ih. A.M. on the 28th she crosses the boundary into Aquarius. 

 Her passage through Aquarius is completed by Ih. p.m. on the 

 30th, and she then, for the second time this month, passes into 

 Pisces (" The Seasons Pictured," plate xxii.). She is still in Pisces 

 at midnight on the 30th. 



(!^ur ClKSsf Column. 



By " Mephisto." 



HE great International Chess Tournament, the fifth 

 congress of the German Chess Association, was 

 begun at Frankfiirt on July 18, and concluded on 

 August 2 with the victory of Captain Mackenzie, 

 who reached the tine score of 15 wins out of 

 20 games played. This result is all the more 

 creditable as this tournament, with twentj'-one 

 competitors, was the largest on record, and, on the 

 whole, it contained as strong a lot of players as 

 ever met together to engage in a tournament. Blackburne tied 

 for second place— always a creditable position — he having an equal 

 score with Weiss, of Vienna, namely, 131 each. No other English 

 competitor took a prize. Not many novelties h,ave been displayed 

 in the treatment of the openings. The Ruy Lopez and the Queen's 

 Pawn opening have had an undue share in the di'luit.. The second 

 player in the Queen's gambit declined, i.e., P to Q4, followed by 

 P to QB4, kc, have several times defended successfully with 

 P to QB3, and have eschewed playing P to QB4. The Sicilian 

 defence has proved itself entirely wanting, and will probably not be 

 resorted to again by modern players. The normal form of the 

 King's gambit has been played with success by Metger against 

 Englisch, and has apparently been discarded without sutiicient 

 reason. The Vienna game has on more than one occasion not 

 yielded a satisfactory result to the first player on persisting in 

 playing 3. P to KB4 after Black played 2. Kt to KB3. Finally, we 

 may mention that Tarrasch obtained a good game by defending the 

 Steinitz gambit played against him by Burn with 4. Q to R5 and 

 5. P to KKt4. 



Appended are a few specimens of the play at the tournament. 

 Game played in the third round between the first prize-winner 



and Dr. Tarrasch, who divided fifth and sixth prizes with Professor 

 Berger : — 



Sicilian 

 Whitr. Black. 



Mackenzie. Tarrasch. 



1. P to K4 P to QB4 



(See introduction for re- 

 mark on Sicilian De- 

 fence.) 



Kt to QB3 

 Kt to B3 

 P to Q4 

 KtxP 

 B to K3 



Kt to QB3 

 P to KKt3 

 PxP 

 B to Kt2 

 P to Q3 



7. B to QKt 

 (The B is better placed on K2.) 



7. B to Q2 



8. Castles Kt to B3 



9. P to B4 



(P to KR3 was necessary to 

 present Kt to Kto.) 

 9. Kt to KKt5 I 



10. KtxKt 



Bl.\ck. 



Defence. 



White. 

 Mackenzie. 



13. P to K6 ! 



14. Px B(ch) 



15. B X Kt 



16. Q to Qo 



17. Ktx P 



18. Pto QR4 



19. Kt to Q4 



20. P to B3 



21. K to Rsq 



22. P to B3 



23. Kt to B3 



Black. 

 Tarrasch. 

 Kt to K4 

 QxP 

 Bx B 



Castles KR 

 QR to Ktsq 

 P to QR3 

 Q to R2 

 RxP 

 Q to Q2 

 K to Bsq 



ll,' 



■W' 





■^^ 



S^ 



Black. 



(Making a dash for an attack.) 



23, 



24. Kt to Kt5 



25. RxP 



26. R X (} 



27. R to QBsq 



28. E to KKtsq 

 (A blunder. 



B ., P 

 R to E4 

 RxQ 



R(Qt) to Q7 

 R(Q7)QB7 

 B toQ5 

 .\ny other 



move would have done.) 



29. R to Q8 (ch) K to Kt2 



30. KttoK6(ch) Resigns 



10. P X Kt 

 (Kt X B instead would have 



led to exchanges of pieces 

 not disadvantageous to 

 Black as second player.) 



11. B to Q4 P to K4 



(Of course Black played for 

 winning a piece. For a 

 safe end-game he might 

 have played B x B. 11. 

 QxB, Q to Kt3, &c.) 



12. PxP PxB 



(An oversight. Black should i 

 have played PxP in- I 

 stead. Then if 13. B to j 

 B5, B to Bsq best, and 

 Black should win.) I 



The following game was played on the Sth round, and may 



serve as a fine illustration of the rapid and skilful mode of attack 



adopted by Blackburne. He continued as follows : — 



Position after Black's twenty-second move. 



Taubenhaus. 



Black. 



White. 



Blackburne. 



