128 



KNOWLEDGE. 



[May 1, 1897. 



No. 2. 



Black (5). 





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White (12). 



White mates in two moves. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



Tlie Pillsbury-Sbowalter match continues to be most 

 evenly contested. The score last week was six all with 

 three draws, a state of affairs which, according to the 

 terms of the match, necessitated its prolongation to ten 

 games. Both players have consistently (to quote from 

 "Q.'s" ballad) "stuck to the old Ruy Lopez and won- 

 dered who'd call for trumps " ; but Mr. Pillsbury produced 

 his trump card in the sixteenth game, a Queen's side 

 opening, and gained the lead thereby. 



M. Tchigorin is engaged in a match with M. Schiffers, 

 and holds a commanding lead in the score. 



Mr. Steinitz has now apparently quite recovered, and 

 has been playing simultaneously at Vienna with his usual 

 success. He returns to New York shortly. 



Mr. T. F. Lawrence has won the championship of the 

 City of London Chess Club for the second year in 

 succession. He disputes with Mr. E. M. Jackson the 

 claim to be considered at the present moment the best 

 London player. 



The Inter- University Chess Match resulted in a win for 

 Oxford by 4 games to 3. The match score now stands at — 

 Cambridge, 15 ; Oxford, 9 ; drawn, 1. The score reckoned 

 in games is less disproportionate : — Cambridge, 118 ; 

 Oxford, 100 ; drawn, 58. 



The game played on Board No. 1 is appended. We 

 recognized the strength of Mr. Spencer Churchill's play in 

 the game published in this column last year. The score 

 was as follows : — 



OXFOKD. 



1. E. G. S. Churchill 1 1. E. A. Crowley 



(Magdalen) 



2. E. Lawton (Corpus) 1 



3. R. A. Jenkins 



(Brasenose) 



4. G. Eraser (Corpus) 



5. A. H. W. George 



(New Coll.) 



6. G. H. Stokes (Corpus) 1 



7. R. IFancock (Exeter) 



(Emmanuel) — 

 8 



Contents of No. 138. 



PAGE 



Bii-d Soug-s in Spring. By Charles 

 A. Witchell 81 



English Medals— I. By G. F. 

 Hiil, M.A. (Illustrated) 82 



On the Prosress of Chemistry 

 and the Chemical Arts during 

 the Queen's Eeign. Bv Professor 

 Thorpe, LL.D.,F.K.S 85 



An Archaeotoffical Survey of the 

 United Kingdom 83 



The Maple Mould. BvEev.Alex. 

 S. Wilson, M.A., B.'Sc. (illus- 

 trated) 69 



Science Notes (111 usf rated) 91 



The Age of Mountains. — II. 

 Britisii Mountains. By Prof. 

 J. Logan Lohley, F.G.S. (IWu5- 

 ir.dei) 9J 



PAOK 



Notic3sof Books. (IllustrotedJ,.. 9j 



Short Noticss 97 



Boaks Keceired 93 



Letters ;— A. Fowler ; T. W. Back- 

 house ; Francis M. Bimcan 

 (IHustrofcd) i W. E. Besley 



Photograph of the Great Nebula 

 in Orion. By Isaac Roberts, 

 D.Sc, F.E.S 



The Story of a Useful Life (lilus- 

 tralcd) 101 



The Face of the Sky for April. 

 By Herbert Sadler, F.E.A.S. ... 103 



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 

 B.A.Onon 103 



98 



100 



Two Plates. — 1. English Medals. 2. Photograph of the Great Nebula in 

 Orion. 



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