304 



KNOWLEDGE. 



[Deoesibeb 1, 1897. 



PKOBLEMS. 



By W. J. Asbdown. 



No. 1. 



Black (?). 



White (13). 



White mates in two moves. 

 No. 2. 



Black (Hi). 





White (12). 



White mates in two moves. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The negotiations for a match between Herr Walbrodt, 

 of Berlin, and M. Janowsld, of Paris, were eventually con- 

 cluded, and the match is now in progress at Berlin. Both 

 players are relying chiefly on the Ruy Lopez, the score 

 at present being — Walbrodt, 2 ; Janowski, 3 ; drawn, 2. 



After a delay of several months the Championship of 

 the Southern Counties Union was decided on October 6th 

 by the retirement of Somerset, who were unable to raise 

 a team against Surrey. Surrey accordingly are again 

 declared the champion county. 



A match of ninety-three players a side between East and 

 West Sussex resulted in a win for the former by the 

 narrow majority of two games ; thus exactly reversing the 

 result of last year's encounter. 



A handicap tournament at the City of London Club, 

 played at the rate of one hundred and twenty moves an 

 hour, resulted in a division of the prizes between Messrs. 

 Herbert .Jacobs, C. J. AVoon, and Harold .Jacobs. 



The obituary among chess players this autumn is un- 

 usually large. M. L. Febvret, a well-known frequenter of 

 Simpson's Divan, and a competitor in the Minor London 

 Tournament of 1883, has died at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



Mr. N. W. van Lennep, the Dutch master, who was 

 reserve man in the Hastings International Tournament 

 and has since been living in London, died on September 

 27th. He was one of the strongest players in England. 



Herr Berthold Englisch, a competitor in the recent 

 Berlin Tournament, who retired owing to ill health, died 

 shortly afterwards at Vienna from paralysis of the brain. 

 Herr Englisch was the founder of the Vienna school of 

 so-called " drawing masters." of which Herr Schlechter is 

 now the leading exponent. His best performance, perhaps, 

 was in the London Tournament of 1883, when he tied for 

 fifth prize with Captain ]\Iackeczie and Mr. Mason, then 

 at their best. The prize winners above him were Zuker- 

 tort, Steinitz, Blackburne, and Tchigorin. Herr Englisch 

 was the most rapid tournament player we have ever seen. 

 In his games with Herr Zukertort, the winner of the 18S8 

 tournament, his average speed was considerably over thirty 

 moves an hour, the authorized time limit being fifteen. 

 His tendency was always in the direction of simplificatlou 

 and concentration on any weak point. If the weak point 

 was defensible after the simplification the game would 

 naturally be drawn. This accounts for the large propor- 

 tion of Herr Englisch's drawn games. In some cases he was 

 a little too ready to accept a draw in order to secure a 

 day's rest, especially when his opponent was a player of 

 his own school ; but no man can be blamed for consulting 

 Lis own health and temperament in a contest involving 

 such a prolonged mental and physical strain. The penalty 

 lies in the fact that the man who spares himself cannot 

 attain to the highest honours. List year Herr Englisch 

 played a match with Pillsbury, in which every game 

 resulted in a draw. 



KNOWLEDGE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



Contents of No. 145. 



Tlie Apjiroachin^ Shower of 



Leonids. Bv W. F. Denning, 



F.E A.S. ..." 249 



The Britisii Trap-door Spider. 



Bv Fred, Enock.F.L.S., F.E.S. 



(innstmlol) 2".0 



The Mystic Number Three 252 



Photoj^rapliy in Illustration. By 



H. Snowden Ward, F.E.P.S.... 253 

 The Flit'ht of a Seed By Rev. 



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



(IlliKstratcd) 254 



British Ornithological Notes. 



Conducted by Harry F. 



Witherby, F.Z.'S.. M.B.O.U. ... 253 

 Some New Views as to the Planet 



Venus. — II. By Camille Flam- 



marion, F.K.A.S. (lUiistraleii) 25S 



Photoj^raph of the Moon 261 



Letters: — Lionel Jervis ; Charles 



A. Witchell; Reginald Bain- 



bridife; T.Wilson 261 



PAOR 



Science Notes ..258 and 26'! 



English Plains and Escarpments. 



By R. Lydekker, B.A Cantab., 



F.ES 26S 



Literary Supplement — 



The Study and Use of Scientific 

 Literature. B\ E. Lydekker 273 



Reviews (IHiislrated) 274 



The Lanfjuage of Shake.-peare's 



Greenwood. — III. By George 



Morley 265 



Egg Collecting in its Relation 



to Science. By Leopold Field 



F.E.S.E 



The New State Laboratory 



(IlIi(ilrafi'Li) 



Face of the Sky for November. 



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

 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 



B.A.Oxon 



263 



!6S 



71 



Plate. — The Moon. 



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