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KNOWLEDGE. 



[April 1, 1895. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The match between Mieses and Teichmann, played last 

 month at the British and Metropolitan Chess Clubs, 

 resulted in a win for Teichmann by 4 games to 1, with 1 

 draw. 



Herr von Bardeleben will commence a match with 

 Mr. Blackburne at the British Chess Club, on April 22nd. 

 A return match between Albin and Showalter, two of the 

 leading American players, is also expected. 



The Surrey v. Kent match resulted in a score of 7^V 

 each, one unfinished game awaiting adjudication. Should 

 this be decided in favour of the Surrey player, his county 

 will have to replay their match with Sussex. 



The match by telegraph between the British Chess Club 

 and the Manhattan Club, New York, took place on 

 Satm-day, March 9th, at the Victoria Hall, Criterion. 

 Play began at 4 p.m. and continued, with half an hour's 

 interval, till 11.80. Mr. Lasker was umpire. As the 

 only two games finished were drawn, the London club 

 proposed to draw the whole match ; and this was eventu- 

 ally agreed to. The teams were — 



British. Manhattan. Moves. 



1. Rev. -J. Owen. S. Lipschiitz. 24. 



2. L. Hofl:er J. W. Showalter 21. 



3. C. D. Locock A. B. Hodges 28. 



4. D. Y. Mills A D. G. Baird a 26. 



5. F. W. Lord i Major Hanham i 19. 



6. A. Guest " I. Kyan 21. 



7. J. Mortimer Dr. Isaacson 80. 



8. H. W. Trenchard .J. W. Bau-d 26. 



9. J. T. Heppell Dr. Simonson 26. 

 10. A. Hunter E. Devisser 26. 



The American players had the move at the odd-numbered 

 boards. Of the unfinished games, the London club had 

 probably slight advantages at boards 1, 8, and 9. On 

 the other hand, they had decidedly the worst of it at board 

 No. 10. Still they had rather the best of the play all 

 round, and it would have been extremely unfortunate if the 

 umpire, after adjudicating a lost game to London on the 

 last board, had not seen his way to proving a won game on 

 any of the other boards. 



The telegraphic code used was an abbreviated form of 

 the German notation. Its novelty led to some errors in 

 cabling, notably at board No. 5. In spite of statements 

 to the contrary, it is clear that the telegraph did not work 

 so quickly as was expected. Assuming that all the players 

 kept within their time-limit of twenty moves an hour, it 

 can easily be shown that the average time occupied between 

 the making of a move and its receipt on the opposing 

 board was no less than four and a half minutes : certainly 

 not the "few seconds" given in some accounts. Things 

 would, no doubt, work better on a future occasion. As it 

 was, the event was an interesting novelty, being the first 

 team match ever played by cable ; nor is it likely to be 

 the last. 



Col. Kyan requests us to state that the time for sending 

 in problems for his tournament, mentioned in this column 

 a short time ago, has been extended to April 1st for 

 English competitors. May 1st for the rest of Europe, and 

 June 1st for other parts of the world. Problems must be 

 three-move direct mates, in the shape of some letter of the 

 alphabet. Messrs. Laws and Eayner will be the judges. 

 All entries should be sent to the " Chess Editor," Leeds 

 yicrcurtj Supplement, Leeds. 



We regret to announce the death of Mr. W. N. Potter, 

 formerly Chess Editor of Land and Water, and one of the 



finest players in England. Also of Mr. G. C. Heywood, 

 of Newcastle, who played at board No. 7 in the North v. 

 South match last year. Lord Randolph Churchill was 

 one of the founders of the Oxford University Chess Club, 

 and a member of the St. George's Chess Club till the day 

 of his death. 



The An of Chess. By James Mason (Horace Cox). — 

 This is a continuation of the same author's Principles of 

 Chess, which was so successful last year. The first hundred 

 pages consist of end-games, rather more advanced than 

 those given in the earlier work. The second part consists 

 of about one hundred and fifty diagrammed positions from 

 actual play, illustrating successful combination. Together 

 with the fifty which were given in the Principles, they 

 should form a storehouse of imaginative brillancy from 

 which any attentive reader ought to be able to assimilate 

 much that is useful in the difficult art of winning won 

 games. We notice that while the fifty examples of 

 "combination" in the Priniiplcs -were culled exclusively 

 from recent master-play, in the more recent work such old 

 masters as Morphy and Anderssen are fully represented. 

 Evidently modern match-play is not capable of unlimited 

 brilliancy. The third and concluding portion of the treatise 

 consists of a short study of the openings. Here the author 

 has availed himself of the principle of selection, not only 

 in the variations of particular openings, but to some extent 

 also in the openings themselves. The Bishop's opening, 

 for instance, finds no place, nor the Three and Four Knights' 

 Game, except as an oft'-shoot of the Ruy Lopez. Still, 

 within its own limits, this portion of the work is both 

 concise and useful. It remains only to add that the work, 

 which contains a portrait of the author, is handsomely 

 bound, and is published at 5s. (net). It is a book to be 

 recommended, more especially as an appendix to the former 

 and less expensive work. 



Contents of No. 113. 



Argon ; the Newly - discovered 

 Coustituent of the Air. By 

 Georj^e McGowan, Ph.D ,. 



A Myth of Old Babylon. 

 Theo. G. Pinches, M.B.A.S. 



By 



The "Eye" of Mars. By E. 

 Walter Maunder, f .K.A.S 55 



Letters : — Thomas Henchman ; H. 

 Destaudi-es ; Thomas Moy 59 



The Intelligence of Insects in 

 relation ti> Flowers. BvtheRer. 

 Alex. S. Wilson, M.A., B.Sc. ... 60 



Science Notes 



Notices of Books 



The Cause of the Movement of 

 Glaciers. Bv P. L. Addison, 

 F.G S., Assoc. M. In>.t. C.E. . 



New Animals from Madagascar". 

 By K. LydekKer, B.A.Cautab., 



r.Rs 



The Face of the Sky for March. 



By Herbert Sadler, F.E.A.S. ... 

 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 



B.A. Oxon 



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