S6 



KNOWLEDGE * 



[June 30, 



fonninff a most Indiorons example. Stoiiiitz adopted this move 

 acrtvinst Floissijr with some success, as can bo seen from the gamo 

 I^ublished in * former number. 



(b) This seems a pert reply, for in case White should take the 

 Pawn, then Black retakes with the Knight, having thereby won a 

 move; or if White support this exposed Pawn, then Black could 

 further proceed to develope his game by attack on the advanced 

 position. 



(.-) A f.'ood move, having for its object the attack on the lonely 

 outpost and also B to Kt5. 



(J) This was either an oversight or an unsonnd combination. 



(f) If 6. P takes P, then Q to R5 (ch) would give White the 

 Ijettcr game. On the other hand, by playing Q to Kt3, Black 

 .klmost obtains a winning advantage at once, on account of tho 

 iuable attack on White's QKtP and KUP. 



(/) He elects to give up tho Rook rather than the KnigVit, as 

 Wliito obtains some considerable attack, but this is very adven- 

 I iirons play. 



(j) Playing after Morphy's fashion, he gives up tho second Eook 

 in order to be better able to attack, as the threatened check with 

 the Black Queen on Q5 somewhat hampers White's movements ; 

 bat it is altogether an ertraordinary style of play, where issues of 

 the highest importance arc at stake. The position, however, is 

 pregnant with ingenious combinations. We give a diagram. 



Position after White's 11th Move. 



1 



Slcinilz. 



(h) This move cost White £70 and the First Prize, lie could 

 h.ive effected a draw by the following play : — 

 Q to KR5 

 Q to R6 fch) 

 Kt to K8 

 Kt to QC (ch) and draws. 



Kt to Kt3 (forced) 

 K to Kt sq 

 KtoB2 

 for if 

 K to K2 

 K to Qsq 



Q to Kt7 (ch) 



Kt to B7 (ch) and perpetual check. 



.\s.^nminp that Steinitz saw tho draw, ho ought to have gladly 



:.v.iil. .1 himiielf of it, as, considering be is minus two Rooks, his 



"ail not founded upon sound judgment. The proper reply ; 



r riiovo would be fatal ; for if (^ takes Ktl', then Q takes HP, 



■■ iitr mate cither on U7 or lib, whereas now White cannot 



• HP, as Black can reply with Q takes Kt (ch), followed by 



Kt to HI. 



(i) Kt to B5 looked a very promihing moTC. Black's only reply 

 \r&> Kt to Kt3, but some interesting play might have resulted. 

 White might also have tried Q to QR.5, in which case Black would 

 lave been compelled to play B to Kt2, giving up tho Bishop, or 

 , kowise Q to KK5, in which case Kt to Kt3 is forced, then 

 I"*. Kt to Bt or Q to B3 would have given more chance to White 

 I han he obtained in the actual game. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



•»• Plecue addrett Cheti-Kdilor. 



Correct solutions of Problem 45 received from John O'Kecffo, 



J. Napier Belmont, Charles Hartley, A. B. Palmer, .John Watson, 



C. W. Croskey, H. A. N., Borrow, Witton-leWear, Herbert Jacobs, 



Leonard P. Siees. 



Borrow.— You are quite right. B to B4 would have boon a better 

 move. 



Herbert Jacobs. — Problem received, with thanks. 



Leonard P. Hees. — Problem received, with thanks. You are 

 right, tho pawn on B3 is rather suggestive, but wo have put it there 

 oui-selves. Perhaps in your ncitt you will tell us why. 



Comet. — Correct solution of No. 42 already published. 



Co.sT OF THR Electric Light. — In a letter to the Timet, Mr. 

 Crookes, F.R.S., has given tho result of several months' experience 

 with electric lighting in his own house by means of gas-engine and 

 incandescent lamps. Omitting tho interest on capital expenditure, 

 which would not obtain to anything like tho same amount by 

 lighting from a central station, especially when reduced cost in 

 keeping ceilings and curtains clean and maintaining gilding and 

 book-bindings is taken as against it, ho finds tho actual cost to him 

 to bo £2. lOs. per month. Gas lighting to tho same extent, he Bays, 

 would cost £3. 6s. Pd. He has in his ^houso altogether about fifty 

 lamps of different powers. 



ANTnnoroi.oGic.\L Institute. — Juno 13, General Pitt-Rivers, 

 F.R.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Mann S. Valentine, of Rich- 

 mond, Virginia, exhibited a series of figures carved in steatite and 

 mica schist, forming part of a largo collection found by him in 

 Virginia and North Carolina. Tho whole collection consists of 

 some 2,000 specimens, consisting of various animals and household 

 utensils, cups, Ac. 'The human beings aro all clothed, and are 

 represented riding on animals and sitting on chairs, and indicating 

 a i-emarkably advanced state of civilisation ; and in some instances 

 obvious traces of contact with Europeans. Mr. A. H. Keane de- 

 scribed the district in which tho objects had been found, and the 

 tribes that were known to have inhabited that country. The 

 following papers were read : — " Nepotism in Travancore," by the 

 Rev. S. Matur; "The Laws of Madagascar," by Dr. G. W. Parker; 

 and " Cummer, Co. Wexford," by G. U. Kinaban, Esq. 



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