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[Dec. 22, 1882, 



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V K " P L E M No. CG. 

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White to play and mate in three moves 



A SELECTION OF 107 CHESS PROBLEMS. 



Bv Fkaxcis C. Colli.ns (Wyman & Sous). 



We are constantly being asked for good reprint problems, and 

 for books containin;; the problems of eminent composers, not- 

 withstanding that many of the good composers have published a 

 collection of their problems, the latest of which, as our readers will 

 be aware, is the excellent collection by J. A. Miles. Unfortunately, 

 owing tc certain unbusinesslike ways of these amateur authors, 

 these books arc not sufficiently brought before the notice of the 

 public i hence they arc not able to procnro for themselves, at a low 

 price, what to lovers of these problems mnst be an intellectual 

 treat. The above is a collection of 107 vorj- good problems, of 

 which we select the foUomng ingeniously-constructed puzzle ; — 

 Bucx. 



■ U M US 



jnjB mm 



It will be »ccn that Black can lie mated on the move. The query ia : 

 '•Krom which square could the Black King have last moved?" The 

 coiurtruction of thin problem was rendered all the more difficult by 

 the following conditi.jn :— 1. The position to admit mate on the 

 move by at leaat eight rli(r..n;nt pieces, and at least twenty different 

 wmys. It will be four. 1 on eiamimition that the author has fulfilled 

 tboK coi.ditiuns. 



1. QloR3 



2. KKtt. Ql 



3. Ci u, B; .,r KC mat?. 



PROBLEM No. 0.'. 

 J. A. M11.H-, p. 4-l-t. 



1. K to Kf, or (n) 



2. KKt U. Q4 



3. Q to K«i Dint?. 



2. K to m, Kl, or (H 

 (0 1. Ku.mct (h) 



('-) 1. K U, B6 

 2. K to (i* 



SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 61. 

 Hv L. P. Rkks, p. 421. 



1. B to KtS 1. K to Q5 



2. Kt to B3 2. K takes Kt 



3. B to K5 mate, or if 



2. K to B4 

 3. B to R7 mate. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

 •»• Please address Chess Editor. 



Amateur. — " Cook's Primer " and " Cook's Synopsis." 



G. H. Tillard, Francis J. Drake, J. \V. Parsons. — Problem received 

 vith thanks. 



llonry Freeman v. IL Jones. 



Charles T. Cray.— Your solution of 03 and 64 properly aoknow- 

 L'llged ; wo are at fault about 65, wo regret to say this problem is 

 iicorrect. 



Correct solutions received of C. S. Bright, J. K. Milne. Problem 

 Co. 63, of H. Seward, T. T. Dorringtou, J. P. No. C4, of H. V. T., 

 . P. No. 62, W. F. \V. Rees. 



Herbert Jacobs. — Solutions correct. 



C. U. Cope, T. B. S.— Solutions incorrect. 



H. V. T. — Solution of Reprint No. 1 correct ; in No. 2 tlio 

 lishop cannot check on Q7. 



Problem No. 64 is to mute in four moves, instead of six, as stated 

 n p. 460. 



Wo are informed that the first reprint problem given on p. 473 

 5 supposed to bo the work of the Fronch poet, Alfred do Musset. 



A Locomotive Telegeapii. — A system for enabling a railway- 

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 on the Atlanta to Charlotte aerial railway in America. It is tho 

 invention of Captain C. W. Williams, of tho United States Army, 

 and consists of a telegraph-wire running along tho track, but insu- 

 lated from it, and interrupted at intervals of 40 ft. The ends at 

 each break are connected to copper rollers which normally are in 

 contact, so that tho electric circuit is com])leted through them. 

 One car of tho train is fitted up as a telegraph office, and two long 

 metal strips or rails prejecting from below tho car rub against tho 

 metal rollers ns tho car jjasses. In doing so they depress tho rollers, 

 thus causing them to break contact with one another. Tho strips 

 are connected together through tho instruments in tho car, and 

 the electric current passes from ono roller through tho instru- 

 ments to the other roller, and thenco pui-sues its way along the rest 

 of tho wire. Tho circuit through tho apparatus thus established is 

 never absolutely interrupted ; for, as tho car moves from one pair 

 of rollers to tho next, the strips make contact with tho latter just 

 before contact with tho former is broken. The instruments, in fact, 

 are constantly moving along tlio telegraph lino as tho train itself 

 moves, and hence a message can bo recorded on them or dispatched. 

 Ti.'h'phones can be used as well as the ordinary Morse and Rounder 

 instruments; and tho system enables a iiassenger to send or receive 

 all important telegram while travelling, or tho position and state of 

 the train to bo comnmnicatod to a distant station. — Tho Times, 



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