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KNOWLEDGE. 



[January 1, 1897. 



Notes, 



(a) Introduced by Steinitz in the Vienna Tournament of 

 1882. His idea originally was to exchange the advanced 

 Pawn at once, and then by keeping pressure on the point 

 at K.5 to rest the game on the confinement of Black's 

 Queen's Bishop. Subsequently, however, he supported 

 the Pawn instead. The first three moves on both sides 

 follow the celebrated tie-game (Steinitz v. Winawer, 

 June 23rd, 1882). 



(h) In the game referred to Steinitz played 4. PxP, 

 B X P ; 5. QKt to B3. 



(c) Very weak. He should play 4. . . . BPxP, and if 

 5. Q to E5ch, K to K2. Black threatens then Q to R4cb 

 (Steinitz). White's reply is excellent. 



((/) Again good. White judiciously refrains from driving 

 away the Queen from a spot where she is badly posted. 



((') To prevent Kt to K4. But he would do better to 

 make this move on his own account. 



( /') Too slow. He cannot play 13. . . . P to Q4 be- 

 cause of 14. Kt to B4 ; but he might try Kt to E3, or 

 P to KE3, followed by P to KKt4. 



{//) Waste of time now. He should develop his QB at 

 all hazards. In any case, having made the move, he should 

 play 18. ... P to KKt4. 



(/() If now 19. ... P to KKt4, 20. P to K6 wins 

 easily. 



(i) Q to Ksq was better ; but the game is lost in any 

 case. Mr. Pollock played throughout with great skill and 

 vigour. His final move threatens (if 25. ... K to Ksq) 

 26. BxPch! 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The score in the Lasker- Steinitz Match at Moscow is 

 now — Lasker G, Steinitz 0, drawn 4. It is stated that M. 

 Tchigorin intends to challenge Lasker, and that the latter 

 will accept provided the stakes are high enough. 



The second Cable Match between England and America 

 is fixed for February 12th and 13th, 1897. A preliminary 

 tournament now in progress at the British Chess Club will 

 help the committee in deciding on the constitution of the 

 English team. The number of players on each side will 

 this year be increased from eight to ten. 



We notice with regret the report of the death of Mr. 

 A. C. Mackenzie, of Jamaica, one of the most successful 

 problem composers of the day. His speciality was the 

 three-move direct mate, and ho took an extraordinary 

 number of prizes in international tournaments for this 

 class of composition. Mr. Mackenzie was chess editor of 



the Jamaica Wackhj Gleaner, and the author of " Chess : 

 its Prose and Poetry." 



A correspondent sends an ingenious mnemonic device 

 for application to games or problems. His method is as 

 follows ; — He designates the King K, the Queen Q or L, 

 the Eook R or M, the Bishop B or N, the Knight O, and 

 the Pawn P. The files are denoted, as in the German 

 notation, by the letters a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. But the ranks, 

 instead of 1, 2. . . . 8, are denoted by o, tw, th, fo, fi, si, 

 se, e. Thus 1. P to K4, becomes Pe fo, while 2. Q to E5 

 would be L (or Q) h ti. The possessor of a bad memory 

 for chess (but a good one for poetry) now selects any poem 

 with which he is familiar, and proceeds to associate the 

 moves of a game, reduced to his private notation, with the 

 lines, or, at least, the spirit, of the poem. An extract from 

 a game sent by our correspondent, and associated with 

 Goldsmith's " Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog," will 

 explain the method — 



11. 



12. 



Kt to Qo 



Q to Qsq 



PxP 



BxP 



O d fi _ ()ne '/octory/nding 



L d e ~ Life (in) (/anger (?xclaimed — 



P t. P _ Paris ! to Pasteur ! 



NTP ~ iVevertheless take (a) Pill." 



Problems may be adapted in the same way. For instance, 

 a problem in which the White King is at K2 and the 

 Queen at Q2 associates itself naturally with " Lady, 

 twine no wreath for me " ; c.//., " Lady, don't twine ; kindly 

 eschew twine." Perhaps some of our readers might care 

 to construct these mnemonic devices, though, practically, 

 most would find it easier to learn a game by heart than to 

 adapt it to a poem and commit the adaptation to memory. 



KNOWLEDGE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



Contents of No. 134. 



PAQE 



Forecasting Famines in India. 

 By Donglas Archibald 265 



Greek Vases. — IV. C. — Red- 

 Fi;?ured Vases (Finest Pei'iod.) 

 By 11. B. Walters, M.A., F.S.A. 

 (/Iliisfralfd) 26" 



Some Curious Facts in Plant 

 Distribution.— VI. By W. Hot- 

 ting Hemsley, F.E.S 270 



Our Fur Producers. — VI, Ro- 

 dents, Uni^nlates, and Mar- 

 supials. By R. Lydekker, B,A., 

 F.R.S. (liiustrated) 271 



Letters:— W. H. S. Monck ; E. 

 Brown ; E. E. Markwick ; David 

 Flauery; J. M. Wadinore: C. 

 Robinson ; A Spiderman; Clias. 

 A, Schott 275 



Notices of Books 277 



A Possible Cause of Change on 

 the Moon's Surface. By Charles 

 Davison, Sc.D., F.G.S 



The Lunar Metropolis. -Bv E. 

 Walter Maunder, F.E.A.S. 

 {IUti.!.tratfd) 



Science Notes 



Waves.— XII. Earthquakes, the 

 Pulse, Nerve Waves, and Tele- 

 patliv. Bv Vaughan Cornish, 

 M.Sc. (niiLslrated) 



The Beech. By George Paxton. 

 (Blitstrated) 



Helium and Parhelium. By E. 

 Walter Maunder, F.R.A.S. 

 {lUustraUd) 



The Faceof tile Sky forNoyember. 

 By Herbert Sadler. F.R.A.S. ... 



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 

 B.A.Oxon 



278 



279 

 280 



281 

 282 



2St 

 287 

 287 



Two Plates. — 1. Greek Vases. 2. The Lunar Metropolis. 



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