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KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[Nov. 17, 1882. 



^tir Cbrds Column. 



r.Y Meiiusto. 



:rRlNT PKOBLKM. 



Wbii 

 White to play and m 



Kt KBo^h) 

 K Kto best. 



This is the |iroblem which contains an idea similor to that 

 mbotliod in thu tino composition by John Simpson (Problem No. 54). 

 Ve present it to our rtuders as a three-mover. 



A>'SWERS TO COEEESPONDENTS. 

 •«• PUate address Chess Editor. 



Leonard P. Rces. — The problrm yon sent has alre.idy been in type 

 for aomc time. We do not think it advisable to invite solvers to 

 roriow the problems ; such a course is bound to create bad fcolinp. 



C. W. C— It is our intention to have a problem every week, but 

 " Mopbiato " proposes and Editor disposes. 



S. S. Problem rcccivid ; but without solution. All problems 

 sent for publication mufit have the solution and the name and 

 addreaa of the campo8<-r written on the back of the diagram. 



C. Uammick, John W. Fowler. — I'roblem received, will bo 



Correct s'llutions of Problem No. 59 received from Sclimncke, 



: .lin Watson, C. W. Crosskoy, U. V. T., W. C. Thomas, John Ale.t. 



' 'l-ard, i;. Woodcock, Geo. U. Bonner, W. J. Beynolds, T. T. Dor- 



r.Kton, K. J. P., J. K. Milne, E. C. H., Berrow, Eev. C. C, 



'.V. Powell, T. o. L., C. S. Bright. 



Paired for correspondence game: G. Woodcock v. (i. 11. T., 

 Alfred B. Palmer v. U. Pilkington. 



^r 2a3f)(gt Column. 



By " Five of Cluiw." 



ilm;8tkativk came. 



V'l now NOT TO IK> 



DEAR FIVE, The game referred to in query answered by yon, 

 ;. 317, nnd in the last two letters of our correspondence last 

 - - - - ' " .w». It was played laU-r in the evening than the 

 '7 ; but, as you justly Kaid in your reply, my ciirrv 

 : on my [mrtner, as wo must have made five by 

 1 correctly, even aflur overlooking his indication 

 •.I t(.<- i.un.ur of tmrop* ho held. But the game will be instructive, 

 I think. L'riticiae it in plain words. — Yours faithfully, 



EniTois. 



r. 



Diamonds — Q, Kn. 

 Clubs— 10, 5. 

 llearts— 8, 7, 5, ;i. 

 Spades— K, Kn, 10, 



The Hands. 



diamonds — A, 10, S, 

 Clubs— A, Q, 9. 

 Hearts— g, Kn.lO,!), 

 Spades — A. 



Z. 



Kinds— 7, 5,3. 

 Clubs- K, 3, 2. 

 Hearts- K, 4, 2. 

 Spades- y,y, 8, 5. 



PLAY. 



trifk, Bud card below loads neit round. 



REMARKS, INFEKENCES, &c. 

 ■1 rightly opens his long suit, 



cading the penultimate. Unless 

 some one is signalling, B perceivcH 

 that X must hold either two out ol' 

 the three cards below the Six, or 

 all three if .1 has not led from a 

 live-curd suit. Ho finesses thii 

 yuoen as a matter of course. 



2. Z'a suit is shown. 



3. Jl properly opens his long 

 suit, and is fortunate enough to 

 see it established in the first round. 



4. A completes the penultimatt- 

 signal. Z must hold the Three ; 

 Y has no more ; therefore, A'h 

 Clubs are established. 



5. II properly leads Tmmps his 

 own suit and his partner's being 

 both established. 



(i. A rightly returns the lowest. 



7. I! should now bo certain that 

 the enemy's trumps aro exhausted ; 

 but whether they were exhausted 

 or not, his ])roper load would now 

 have been from his cstablishedlleart 

 suit. This would have forced out 

 I he hist hostile trump, however the 

 Ili/ai-ts lay: and then, the long 

 bringing in the lead again, 

 .1 would have ma<lo all the remain- 

 ing tricks with his Clubs. Putting 

 aside A'h showing, in tricks six an(l 

 seven, that he held originally four 

 trumps (or ho would have returned 

 the Six) tho case illustrates well 

 the use of tho force. For we see 

 that I'vcii if tho best trump hud 

 rrin:uiied with Z, it could have been 

 forced out, and the game won by 

 canls. Tho only explanation of his 

 bad play is that tho triumphant 

 nKjicct of matters, after trick five, 

 cauHiil our Editor's attention to 

 nod for a moment, and so be suf- 

 fen.'d a won gamo to slip from 

 him.* The rest of tho game plays 

 itself.— FivK OF Clubs. 



• It is over thus I Tho spur of 

 difficulty is needed by most of uh, 

 to keep UH on tho alert. Kaiser, of 

 Leyden, counting nearly 90,000 

 rotations of Mars to determine tho 

 .Martian day, easily sets right all 

 the really difficult jinrts of his 

 problem, correcting oven at last for 

 the aberration of lisht, the effect 

 of which, lost among so many 

 rotations, is as nothing ; and then, 

 nodding, forgets that tho years 

 1700 and IKOO worn not leap years, 

 aii<l counts two whole days too 

 many. Take caro of things easy : 

 things difficult take care of them- 

 selves (tho proverb is to bo pa- 

 tented).— En. 



