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KNOWLEDGE 



[Apbil 1, 1898. 



The following game was played at board No. 8 in the 

 North !'. South match : — 



White 

 (W. T. "O'ilson, Brighton). 



1. P to K4 



2. Kt to KB3 



3. B to Kto 



4. P to Q4 



5. Kt to B3 



6. KtxP 



7. B to K3 



8. Castles 



9. Kt X Kt (e) 



10. Q to Q2 



11. P to B3 



12. BxKt! 



IB. Kt to Q3 (-) 



14. PxB 



15. Q to Q4 



16. Q to QB4 



17. P to QR4 ! 



18. P to R5! (/() 



19. PxP 



20. R X P (0 



21. RxR 



22. R to Rsq 



23. Q to B6 



24. Q to QB (eh) 



25. " " " 



Black 

 (a. W. Wright. Maufhester). 



1. P to K4 



2. Kt to QB8 



3. P to Q3 



4. B to Q2 



5. PxP 



6. Q to B3 (w) 



7. KKt to K2 



8. Castles QR (/-) 



9. KtxKt(r/| 



10. Q to Kt3 



11. K to Ktsq (?) 



12. BxB 



13. BxKt 



14. B to K2 



15. P to Kt3 



16. B to B3 (/■) 



17. KR to Ksq (</) 



18. RxB 



19. BPxP 



20. R to K2 



21. BxR 



22. R to Q2 ( /■ ) 

 28. R to Kt2 (/,■) 

 24. K to B2 



Resigns. 



north of England, but 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



Qxl^(*=l^) Notes. 



(a) A favourite move in the 



hardly to be commended. The simplest defence here is 



6. . . . KtxKt ; 7. BxBch, QxB; 8. Q x Kt. KtBS ; 



9. B to Kto, B to K2 ; but if now White castle on the 

 Queen's side, Black should not play the tempting move 



10. ... Q to Kt5, on account of the reply 11. Q to K3 ! 

 and Black dare not take the KKtP. 



(//) This move and the subsequent exchanges leave the 

 Black King in the cold. Perhaps 8. ... P to QR3 would 

 be an improvement ; at any rate he would learn what the 

 Bishop is going to do. 



(<•) 9. Q to Q2 at once looks good ; but Black could reply 

 9. ... Kt to K4, with the idea of getting rid of the White 

 Queen's Bishop by Kt to Kto (or Kt to B5 if White 

 exchanges Bishops). 



((/) Taking with tlie Bishop instead might give him the 

 opportunity of freeing his game by P to Q4 later on. 



((') Threatening B x Pch. 



(/) There is hardly time for this as it turns out. His 

 proper line of defence against the coming attack lay in 

 bringing the Queen n'li 134 to QBsq. 



(;/) It was difficult to see that Mr. Wilson would not con- 

 descend to move the Bishop, but 17. ... Q to B4 was 

 again the only correct defence. 



(/() A very beautiful sacrifice, absolutely sound in every 

 variation. Black is compelled to take the Bishop lest a 

 worse thing happen to him. 



(i) The secondary brilliancy. If Black takes the Rook 

 he is mated in five moves by 21. Q to B7ch, &c. (not 21. 

 R to Rsqch, K to Ktsq ; 22. Q to B6 ; for lilack could 

 then delay the mate by R to K8ch and other moves). 



(,y) Immediately fatal. The best defence, which leads to 

 problem-like possibilities, is 22. ... R to QBsq ; 23. Q to 

 Kto ! K to Kt2 (best, for if 23. ... B to Qsq, 24. Q to 

 R6, and the King can no longer escape by B2 and (^sq) ; 

 24. R to RC ! B to Qsq ; 25. Q to R4 ! leaving Black only 

 a selection of various mates to choose from. 



(A) 23. . . R to R2 is equally demolished by Q to QKch. 

 Mr. W'ilson must be congratulated on having played cer- 

 tainly the most brilliant game in the whole match, 



The championship of the City of London Club has been 

 won by Mr. T. Physick, after a tie with Mr. Eckenstein. The 

 previous holders of the title have been Messrs. Loman and 

 Moriau. Messrs. Gibbons and Miiller were the other 

 sectional winners. 



On February 18th Sussex defeated Kent rather easily by 

 13 to 3, the losers' score being made up entirely of drawn 

 games. Sassex r. Hants, played two or three weeks later, 

 was left undecided, the score being " 6 all," with one 

 unfinished game reserved for adjudication. 



An unusually brief Masters' Tournament took place at 

 Simpson's Divan in the week beginning February 27th. 

 The prize fund, amounting to £60, was provided by Black- 

 coiil ]i'Iiitr, in which Mr. Hotfer now edits a chess column. 

 The six players originally selected were ^Messrs. Bird, 

 Blackburne, Gunsberg, JIason, Tinsley, and Van Vliet. 

 On Mr. Gunsberg's retirement Mr. Teichmann was chosen 

 to take his place. The tournament was limited to one 

 round, the result being — Blackburne, 4 ; Mason, 3i ; 

 Teichmann, 3 ; Tinsley and Van Vliet, 1| ; and Bird, 0. 

 Mr. Bird refused several draws. 



The Lasker-Walbrodt match at Havana is not likely to 

 take place after all, Mr. Lasker having excused himself on 

 various grounds. It is rumoured that he even intends to 

 retire from the chess world altogether. 



Messrs. I. M. Brown and L. P. Rees, the secretaries of 

 the two teams in the recent North r. South match, propose 

 to issue a book containing a history of the match with all 

 the games played in it. The latter will be annotated. The 

 book will be published at 3s. 9d. post free, its publication 

 depending on the receipt of at least 250 subscriptions before 

 April 1st. 



The Handicap Tournament of the St. George's Chess 

 Club was won, after a very close struggle, by Mr. E. M. 

 Jackson (Class 1a). There were about thirty competitors, 

 and the prize winners were neck and neck at the finish, a 

 proof of the excellence of the system of handicapping by 

 half-classes. 



Messrs. Velt & Co., of Leipzig, are pubUshing the Schach- 

 ■Jahrbuch for 1893. The work, which is compiled by J. 

 Berger, the well-known player and composer, is a com- 

 bination of chess directory and chess history on a most 

 complete scale. The regulations suitable for various kinds 

 of tournaments are fully treated. The book is published 

 at 6s. 



Contents of No. 89. 



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On Certain Low-Lyine Meteors. 



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P.K.S., F.C.S., 4c 



Letters : — Harold M. Collison ; 



Dr. A. Brester, Jz. ; W. H. S. 



Moncli JS 



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Living Fossils. By E. Lydekker, 

 B.A. Cantab 55 



The Face of the Sky for March. 

 By Herbert Sadler, F.K.A.S. ... .'>8 



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 

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