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♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[May 15, 1885. 



true to each other, and the fabric takes care of itself. No game 

 can prosper as well as it might when tlie KB is played to Q3 

 blocking the QB. No doubt in some of the above variations Black 

 seemingly holds his own well, but White has himself begun by 

 disregarding the " first principles." In Knowledge, p. 249, we 

 said : " It Black succeeds in bringing out his pieces, then the moves 

 of the Queen will virtually be transformed into loss of time for 

 White." But Black ought not to succeed in bringing out his pieces 

 well. Thus in the first variation, after 5. KKt to B3, Kt to B3, 

 White need not play (3. P to K5, but might content himself with 

 playing a waiting move, such as G. B to Q3, and sooner or later 

 Black will be compelled to move his KB again. Again, in varia- 

 tion (d) the aspect of the game ought to be different with proper 

 play, i.e., 5. QKt to B3, B to Ki. G. B to Q2, Kt to B3. 7. Castles, 



Black. 



WnlTB. 



Castles. S. P to B4, B to Q3. 0. g to Kt3, P to Q3. In this 

 position we certainly would not play 10. P to B5, but would 

 continue with 10. Kt to B3, and we do not see how Black will be 

 able to meet the coming pressure of White's attack on the K's side. 

 If 10. Kt to B3 Kt to KE4 



11. Q to K sq. B X Kt 



12. BxB KtxP 



13. Q to Kt3 Kt to Kta 



14. P to KR4 



Besides this, it is to be considered whether White would not do 

 equally well by play J>. Q to K sq. In any case. White's develop- 

 ment must be superior to Black's.] 



SOLUTIONS. 

 Problem 154. 



1. Kt to B7 



2. Kt to BG (eh) 



3. Q to B sq. 



3. Q to B3 



1. B to E8 



2. Q to Kt7 



3. Q mates 



if 2. 



KtoQ5 or 1. KxP 



K to B5 2. Kt to K8 (ch) K to K4 



JIate 3. Q to K3 Mate 



K to K5 if 2. K to K3 



Mate 3. Q to Q6 Mate 



Problem No. 155. 

 P to Kt3 or 1. 



Any 2. Q to Kt6 



3. Q mates 



Kt to Q3 



Any 



One of twenty games played simultaneously at the North 

 London Chess Club : — 



Wiiie. Blact. 'WTiite. Black. 



Mr J. Gansberg. Mr. W. F. Flcar. Mr. J. Gnnsbers. Mr. W. F. Flear. 



1. P to K4 P to K4 12. B to Kt3 R to KB sq (r) 



2. Kt to QB3 Kt to QB3 13. Kt to R4 B to B2 



3. B to Kt5 Kt to Q5 14. P to Q4 P x P 



4. B to E4 B to B4 15. Q x B P x B 



5. Kt to KB3 Kt X Kt (a) 16. P x P Q to K4 (/) 



6. Q x Kt Q to B3 17. E to Q6 P to B3 



7. Q to Kt3 P to B3 (b) IS. R to B5 Q x KP 



8. P to Q3 Kt to K2 19. R to KB sq. P to Kt3 



9. B to K3 B to Kt3 20. KR to Q sq. Kt to K4 (g) 



10. Castles (QR) Kt to Kt3 21. R to KG (ch) Resigns 



11. KRtoKBsq.(c) P to KK3 (d) 



(a) This exchange is forced, as the KP cannot be defended 

 without loss of time. 



(b) Necessary, to prevent Kt to Q5, also to liberate the QP. 



(c) With a view to the possible advance of the KBP. 



(d) If P to Q3, White replies B to Kt3, threatening to win the 

 Queen by B to Kto, so that in any case P to KR3 was judicious. 



(<;) P to Q3 followed by B to K3 and Castles (QR) seems a more 

 promising line of play. 



(/) Probably the best move, for the exchange of Queens would 

 give him the best game. 



(g) Overlooking White's pretty combinatioD, which he might 



have prevented by Q to K2. 

 attack. 



AVhite would, however, retain a good 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



»*, Please address Chess Editor. 



R.WENsnoE. — Solutions correct. 



Squire. — 1. Q to Bo does not solve 156. 



J. McKean. — Problem received with thanks. 



Science and Religion. — I have sometimes a feeling that the 

 student of science ought to be exasperated, if anything so foolish 

 could exasperate, at the contempt of God and the insult to God 

 implied by attacks made upon science in the name of religion. Of 

 course the utter inanity and stupidity of some of those attacks 

 justify science in regarding them very carelessly. AVhen science is 

 told, for instance, that to admit evolution on the ever-widening 

 scale now required is " setting on one side the Almighty in the 

 name of universal evolution," it suffices to smile at the absurdity. 

 An insect who should say that, " Believing a tree to have grown 

 is setting on one side the Almighty in the name of growth," would 

 present a no more preposterous picture than the narrow trained 

 person who is appalled at the thought that a planet has been 

 developed or that a race of animals is the product of evolution. 

 A winged insect rejecting with disdain the idea of kinship with the 

 grnb of its own race would not be more absurd than the man who 

 shudders at the suggestion that his remote ancestors were savages 

 or their remote ancestors akin to the remote ancestors of animals 

 yet lower in the scale of being. As one might answer the foolish 

 insect, " The leaf has grown in your knowledge ; did God, 

 then, think you, make the tree, and did He' not also make the 

 leaf ? " so may the opponents of evolution be answered, " The 

 tree and the animal grow, to our knowledge ; did God, then, 

 make the solar system, and did He not also make the 

 tree?" "Did He make the species of animals, and did He not 

 also make the individual animal?" If the common objection 

 to evolution has any weight, it must be because those who 

 urge it do not consider tree or animal God's work, knowing that 

 the tree and the animal have grown. They put their intelligence 

 on Topsy's level. Their answer to the question, " Who marie you ? " 

 should be not "God," but "'SpectsI growed." If the known growth 

 of the individual man leads no one above the capacity of an 

 infant negro to say that therefore the individual man is not God's 

 work, on what imaginable grounds can the scientific theory of the 

 growth of a solar system be interpreted as signifying that science 

 regards the sun and moon and stars as not God's handiwork ? All 

 such objections as these are worthy only of ridicule. So soon, 

 however, as the rabid religionist irreligiously talks of the study of 

 the book of nature as worthless, or as dangerous, he should he met 

 not by ridicule, but by stern rebuke. To contemn the study of 

 God's works is to despise the Almighty. To fear lest closer inquiry 

 into the laws of the universe should lead to thoughts either 

 dangerous or injurious is to insult the Author of the Universe. The 

 attacks of the ungodly enemies of science, that is, the opponents of 

 the study of God's Great Book, should be met, not as is too often 

 done by "veiled apologies, but by stern and outspoken denunciations. 

 — R. A. Proctor in Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. 



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