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KNOWLEDGE 



[March, 1902. 



No. 2. 

 By E. G. B. Biiilow. 



Black (I). 



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MJm^m 





White (8), 



White mates in three moves. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



An International Chess Tournament is now in progress 

 at Monte Carlo. There are twenty competitors. Dr. Lasker, 

 who now holds a mathematical post at Owen's College, 

 Manchester, and Messrs. Blackburne and Burn being the 

 most notable absentees. A feature of the tournament is 

 the return of Dr. Tarrasch to public play. The score will 

 be given next month. 



A Collection of Seven Hundred Chess Problems, by Mrs. 

 W. J. Baird, is announced for publication this moiith bv 

 Messrs. Sotheran & Co. The diagrams will be printed in 

 colours, and the volume will contain a portrait of the 

 author. The edition will be limited to 500 copies, the 

 price being 10s. 6d. net. 



THREE-MOVE PROBLEM TOURNEY. 



1st Prize, One-and-a-Half Guineas; 2nd Prize, Fifteen 

 Shillings; 3rd Prize, "Knowledge" free for 12 months. 



The Conditions are as follows : — ' 



1. Each competitor may send not more than one three-move unconditional 

 direct-mate problem (diagrammed). 



2. Competing positions must bo original and unpublished. 



3. Each problem must be accompanied l>y a motto and full solution, with 

 a sealed envelope containing the composer's name and address. 



4. Comi»eting positions much reach Mr. C. D. Locock, Netherfield, 

 Camberley, England, on or before April lOtb, 1902. 



5. The Chess Editor reserves the right of excluding manifestly impossible, 

 unsound, or inferior jwsitions. 



6. The adjudication will be partly by solvers and partly by the Chess 

 Editor. 



All solvers who solve correctly every problem will be 

 entitled to vote on their merits. The six or eight 

 problems thus selected will then be adjudicated on by ihe 

 Chess Editor, whose decision will be final. 



A Solution Tourney will commence in the May 

 number. Full particulars will be given next month ; in 

 the meantime it may be stated that the winner will hold 

 for 12 months a Silver Challenge Trophy, which will 

 become his projjerty should he win it three years in 

 succession, or four years altogether. Second and Third 



Prizes will also be given, viz. : 1.5s., and Knowledge for 

 one year respectively. 



The Challenge Trophy consists of a silver Castle 

 on an ebonised pedestal, the whole standing 7^ inches 

 high ; the silver portion being 6 inches high. The Trophy 

 is adorned with shields for the inscription of the title and 

 winners' names. 



"KNOWLEDGE" CHESS TROPHY. 

 (About half natural she.) 



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