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KNOWLEDGE. 



[May, 1901. 



W. Cliigston. — Thanks for the problem. It is marked 

 for insei'tioii in the August number, the programme till 

 that month being already complete. The solver you 

 mention is well known ; he competed, if I remember 

 rightly, in a solution tourney in Knowledge some eight 

 or nine years ago. 



J. Bacldeley. — I can only repeat that I know no other 

 wav of getting any decisive result from a competition 

 limited to problems in two and three moves. 



C. C. Massey. — Your deduction from tlie words " may 

 possibly " is incorrect. The words show that ])roblems of 

 the uatiire alluded to were originally contemplated, but 

 that, owing to their apparent unpopularity, they would, if 

 given at all, be reserved for emergencies. You will see 

 that, in your other reference, you have confused "problems 

 known to have no solution'' with "problems known to 

 have more than one solution." The former class is certainly 

 illegitimate, the statement "White mates in, etc," being 

 clearly of the nature of a falsehood. 



PROBLEMS. 



By Mrs. W. J. Baird. 



No. 1. 



Black (u). 



^ mm 



mm m. 





m ^M m 



^Wm. rf W>. S 



V///////^ a V^'/^ ?^'"^ Wffffii 



White (s). 



White mates in two moves. 

 No. 2. 



Black (7). 



i « W' i 





m 







v,-^- r 'mm 



1 



y//^v/,. 



W///'- v//y. 



w Wy//'^ -^^ V///M 



White (9). 



White mates in three moves. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The Anglo-American Cable Match will have taken ]ilace 

 before this page ap])ears. The British team will be 

 weakened by the absence of Mr. Blackbiirne, who, so far as 



I know, has assigned no reason for his abstention. For- 

 tunately it has been discovered that Mr. Mason is eligible, 

 and he will probably be invited to take Mr. Blackburne's 

 place. Mr. Burn is again not jdaying, and Mr. E. O. Jones 

 will probably })lay instead of Mr. Trenchard, who has been 

 out of form lately. 



Herr C. Schlechter has again given evidence of consistent 

 form by his victory in the Vienna Club Tournament with 

 a score of 9 out of 11. Herr Alapin was second with 8, and 

 Herren Albin and Marco divided the third and fourth 

 prizes with scores of 6i each. 



Gloucestershire have defeated Wiltshire in the semi- 

 final round of the Southern Counties' Competition by 10 

 games to 6. The final tie will jjresumably be against 

 Surrey as usual. 



The North v. South Cori-espondence Match is just 

 concluding, any games unfinished on April 15 being sent 

 to Mr. H. E, Atkins for adjudication. The full score will 

 be given next month. 



An imjiortant match between Lancashire and Yorkshire, 

 played at Leeds on March 2ord. resulted in a win for 

 Lancashire by Itii games to 8i. Mr. Burn was playing 

 for Lancashire ; as is often the case he ])referred not to 

 take the first board. Last year Lancashire won by 29-3 to 

 12^, but in 1899 Yorkshire obtained an easy victory by 

 20''to 11. 



Mr. T. F. Lawrence has agani risen to the occasion in 

 the City of London Championship Tournament, having at 

 present won 15 games, drawn 2, and lost 0. The other 

 leading competitors are — Herbert Jacobs, won 14, drawn 3, 

 lost 2 ■ E. 0. Jones, won 1.3, drawn 1, lost 3 ; W. Ward, 

 won 13, drawn 3, lost 3 ; Dr. Smith, won 14, drawn 2, 

 lost 5. 



A ('orrespondent points out that the chess-board puzzle, 

 which appeared in the March number, had been printed 

 in these j.^ages some years ago. It ajipeared in the August 

 and October numbers of 1886, where it is described as 

 " the fine old (i4 — (55 fraud." The writer of the article 

 suggests a plan for making the discrepancy less obvious 

 by dividing it between the square and the parallelogram, 

 instead of, as usual, allowing it to fall on one of the two. 

 In other words, instead of taking an amount of paper 

 equal to 64 squares, and attempting to convince the victim 

 of the fraud that it is also equal to 65, he takes an amount 

 equal to 64s squares and turns it at will into either an 

 apparent chess-board or an apparent rectangle of 13 x 5. 

 The rectangle is drawn first, and a thin parallelogram of 

 an area equal to half a square is cut out from it and 

 thrown away. For a full description of the ingenious 

 method by means of which, as the writer claims, the 

 discrej)ancy is rendered so unuoticeable that it cannot be 

 detected, even by measurement, those interested in the 

 matter should refer to Knowledge for October 1, 1886. 



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