200 



KNOWLEDGE. 



[August 2, 1897. 



No. 2. 

 By C. D. Locock. 



Black (8). 



m m m 



m m m. fm 

 '^ Wi Wi 'W' 







White (8). 



White mates in three moves. 



[The above is an alternative version of a recent tourney 

 problem.] 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The Ladies' International Tournament came to a 

 successful conclusion on July 3rd. Miss Rudge won the 

 first prize without losing a single game, her one drawn 

 game being of the nature of an accident. Her performance, 

 and that of Miss Thorold, who was third, seems to show 

 that the established provincial celebrities can still more 

 than hold their own with the energetic members of the 

 ladies' club in London. These latter have had all the 

 advantage of excellent practice against many of the London 

 clubs, but the majority apparently lacked that steadiness, 

 born of experience, to which the West of England repre- 

 sentatives owed their success. The following was the 

 prize list : — 



1. Miss Rudge, Bristol (£60) 18^ 



2. Mrs. Fagan, London (£50) 



3. Miss Thorold, Bath (£40) 



4. Mrs. Worrall, America (£30) ... 



5. Mrs. Bonnefin, London (£20) ... 



6. Lady Thomas and Mrs. Berry (equal) 



151 



14 



13 



12i 



After a succession of drawn games towards the close, 

 M. Tchigorin won his match with M. Schiffers by 7 games 

 to 1, with 6 draws. By a curious coincidence the ninth 

 game of the match was identical for the first ten moves 

 with the game (Locock v. Trenchard) recently published 

 in this column. But M. Schiffers, who was playing White, 

 overlooked the winning move, 11. Q to R5, and ultimately 

 lost the game. M. Tchigorin has now defeated M. Schiffers 

 in five matches out of six dm-ing the last twenty-four 

 years, but in tournament play the result has been very 

 different, so far as their personal encounters have been 

 concerned. 



The Chess Bouqmt. By F. R. Gittins. (Feilden, 

 McAUan, & Co.) This long-expected work has now made 

 its appearance. The STtisfactory result is a handsomely 

 bound crown quarto volume of two hundred and sixty 

 pages. The scope of the work is probably already known 

 to many of our readers. Suffice it to say it contains the 

 chess biographies of some seventy or eighty of the leading 

 problem composers and chess editors of the United 



Kingdom, adorned with their portraits, and accompanied 

 by their specially selected problems. There are also essays 

 on problems and solving by Messrs. Laws, Hume, and 

 others. The portraits have come out particularly well in 

 almost every case ; while the problems, nearly seven hun- 

 dred in number, form an unrivalled collection, representing 

 as they do the cream of the productions of living British 

 composers. Among others who have frequently contributed 

 to this column we notice the biographies and compositions 

 of Messrs. G. K. Ansell, J. T. Blakemore, A. C. Challenger, 

 and A. G. Fellows ; the last named also contributes the 

 dedicatory poem, and in other respects we believe has had 

 some share in editing the work. Certainly it is a book to 

 be bought and studied by all who take an interest in 

 chess problems. 



Chess Openings. By J. Mason. (Horace Cox & Co.) 

 2s. net. This is Mr. Mason's third treatise on the game, 

 written in that semi-philosophic style (with traces of 

 Carlylese) which the reader has now learnt to expect. It 

 is a very useful and well-written book of one hundred and 

 fourteen pages, the introduction on "development " being 

 especially instructive. The analysis is on the " large-type 

 main variation " plan, with subsidiary variations in smaller 

 type. Though not perhaps so concise as the " column " 

 system, this plan makes the book more readable, and not, 

 we think, less easy for reference. Mr. Mason draws 

 somewhat largely on his previous works, but the book is 

 no worse for that. It is certainly the best of the smaller 

 treatises on the openings. 



KNOWLEDGE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



Contents of No. 141. 



FAQS 



The Insects of a London Back- 

 Garden. — II. By Fred Euoek, 

 P.L.S.,F.E.S. (niustrated) 153 



Bird - Soug:s in Summer. By 



Charles A. Witchell 137 



Jubilee Honours 158 



The Threshold of a New Era 158 



On the Vegetation and Some of 

 the Vegetable Productions of 

 Australasia.— III. By W. 



Bottini-Hemsley.F.R.S. F.L.S. 



(Kliisfrotcd) .■ 161 



Letters:— T. W. Backhouse; W. 

 H. S. Monck; Jas. D. Hardy; 

 Alex. B. McDowall ; W. Alfred 

 Pan-; A. W. Busbridge 161 



PASS 



Science Notes 167 



Notices of Books 168 



Short Notices 169 



Books Received 169 



The Hourglass Sea on Mars. By 

 E. M. Antoniadi (Hlustrated) 169 



The Language of Shakespeare's 

 Greenwood. — II. By George 

 Morley 172 



The Face of the Sky for JiJy. 

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



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 

 B.A.Oxon 175 



174 



Plate. — The Hourglass Sea on Mars. 



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