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KNOWLEDGE. 



[January 2, 1899. 



is pinned and cannot give the pretty mate at QKtsq (Q x P 

 would not be mate in any case). 



C. J. Slu-nrs.— In No. 1, Kt to K4 is met by P to KtScb. 

 In No. 2 the White Queen, being pinned, cannot mate at 

 Q6. 



W. Clugston. — The delay was due to the omission to 

 print Mr. Andrew's problem a month earlier. 



J. Xield. — Many thanks for the problems. 



PEOBLEMS. 



No. 1. 

 By W. Clugston. 



Black (S). 



White (S). 



White mates in two moves. 



No. 2. 

 By C. D. Locock. 



Black (7). 



White (7). 



White mates in three moves. 

 CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



We regret to announce the death of the Rev. A. B. 

 Skipworth, for many years Eector of Tetford, Horncastle. 

 We may safely assert that this address is more familiar to 

 the chess world than that of any chess-player who ever 

 lived. Mr. Skipworth was the founder, and, for some 

 thirty years, the honorary secretary, and always the life 

 and soul of the Counties Chess Association, which for 

 more than twenty years held its annual largely attended 

 tournaments in the provinces. As an amateur player he 

 was quite in the front rank, but owing to iU-health was 

 unequal to the strain of a prolonged tournament. He was 

 a competitor in two international tournaments, London, 

 1883, and Bradford, 1888, but in both cases was obliged 



to retire before the conclusion of the contest. In the less 

 arduous conflicts of the Counties Chess meetings, he was 

 far more successful, in spite of the severe handicap im- 

 posed by the task of managing the work of the meeting, 

 which almost entirely devolved on him alone. In this 

 respect, indeed, as in many others, Mr. Skipworth's place 

 will not easily be filled. 



Messrs. Janowski and Showalter are engaged in a match 

 in the United States. The French champion won the 

 first two games, but Mr. Showalter soon got into form, 

 the score at present being — Janowski, 3 ; Showalter, 2 ; 

 drawn, 2. The match goes to the winner of the first 

 seven games. On tournament form M. Janowski is the 

 stronger player of the two, but Mr. Showalter is at his 

 best in a match, and, unfortunately, even better than his 

 best in the Anglo-American Cable Match, in which he has 

 won his game in three consecutive years. 



The British Chess Club defeated the St. George's Chess 

 Club on December 10th, after a close contest, by 5i games 

 to i^. The game between Messrs. Burn and Jackson, the 

 respective leaders, was drawn ; the same result occurred in 

 their game last year, on which occasion the St. George's 

 Club did not succeed in winning a game. On the present 

 occasion the " tail " of the British team nearly succeeded 

 in losing the match. 



On November 19th Kent and Hampshire met for the 

 first time in the history of the Southern Counties Chess 

 Union. The result was a drawn match, each side winning 

 eight games. There is little doubt that Surrey wiU, as 

 usual, be the ultimate winners of the championship. 



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Contents of No. 157 (November) 



The Beet-Suear Industry in England. 



By Jolin Mills. 

 The' Karkinokosm, or World of Cms- 



tacea.— VI. By the Rev. Thomas 



E. B. Stebbing, M.A., F.K.S., f.l.s. 



(lUustrated.) 

 Self-Irrisration in Plants.— III. By 



the Rev. Alex. S. WUson, m.a., b.sc. 



(lUustrated.) 

 Progress in Kadiogi-aphy. By James 



Qui;k. 

 Handicraft in the Laboratory. 

 The New Planet DQ. By A. 0. D. 



Crommehn. IVlastrateil.) 

 The November Meteors. {Ul udrated.) 

 Photograph of the Nebulous Kegion 



round Herschel V .37 Cygni. By 



Isaac Roberts, D.sc, F.s.s. (Plate.) 

 Letters. 

 Science Notes. 



British Ornithological Notes. 

 An Irish Superstition, By Frances J. 



Battersbv. 

 Notices of Boots, 

 The Smell of Earth. By G. Clarke 



Nut'all, B.sc. 

 .The Hooks on the Mandible of the 



Honey Bee and the Gizzard of the 



Ant. By Walter Wesche. (filus- 



traffd.) 

 Botanical Studies.— VI. Selaginella. 



By A. Vaughan Jennings, F.L.S., 



F.G.S. {rliustrated.) 

 Notes on Comets and Meteors, By 



W. F. Dezming, f.r.a.s. 

 The Face of the Sky tor November. 



By A. Fowler, f.r.a.s. 

 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, b.a. 



Contents of No. 158 (December). 



Editorial. 



Volcanoes of the North. By Grenville 

 A. J. Cole, M.R.I, A., p.G,s. (Illus- 

 tratvd.) 



Christmas Customs of Shakespeare's 

 Greenwood. By George Morley, 



The Colours of Cowries. By R. 

 Lydekker. 



Notices of Books. 



Science Notes. 



Obitnary. 



British Omithological Notes. Con- 

 ducted by HaiTy F. Witherby, 



F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Letters. 



Variable Stars in Globular Clusters, 

 By Miss Agnes M. Clerke. (Illus- 

 tratedt) 



Variable Stars in Clusters, 



Botanical Studies. — VII. Abies. 

 VIII. Lilinm. By A. Vaughan 

 Jennings, f.l.s., f.g.s. (iZiwe- 

 trated.) 



Notes on Comets and Meteors, By 

 W. F. Denning, f.r,a,s. 



The Face of the Sky for December. 

 By A. Fowler, f.r.a.s. 



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, b.a. 

 Plate. — The Colours of Cowries. 



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