140 



KNOWLEDGE 



[July 1, 1893. 



The following game was recently played in a match at 

 the Metropolitan Chess Club. The score is from the 

 Daily Xewx : — 



^ " ViEXNA OpENINO. 



White Black 



f]r. .Jacobs). (R. Loman;. 



1. P to Ki 1. P to K4 



2. QKt to B3 2. KKt to B3 



3. P to KKt3 3. P to Q4 {,i) 



4. PxP 4. KtxP 



5. B to Kt2 5. B to K3 



6. Q to K2 (6) 



7. Q to Kt5 (?) 



8. Q to K4 



9. Kt to B3 



10. Castles (d) 



11. P to QE3 



12. KtxKtP 



13. QxP 



14. Q to K2 



15. E to Ktsq 



16. Q to Ksq 



17. BxKt 



18. B toK4 (/•) 



19. P to gs ((/) 



20. P to QKt4 



6. QKt to B3 



7. P to QE3 (c) 



8. B to K2 



9. Castles 



10. KKt to Kt5 



11. P to QKt4 



12. PxKt 



13. E to E4 



14. KtxP 



15. KKt to Q5 



16. Kt X Ktch {e) 



17. Kt to Q5 



18. B to R6 



19. R to B4 



20. R toB7 and wins (/i) 



Notes. 



(«) This gives White the Steinitz defence to the "Three 

 Knights game," with the advantage of a move ahead. We 

 much prefer 3. . . B to B4, followed by P to QR3 (to pre- 

 serve the Bishop); and, directly White Castles, P to KR4, 

 with a dangerous attack. 



(b) White elects to use his "move ahead' as an aid 

 to Pawn-hunting. Kt to B3 and Castles would be a much 

 better course. 



((•) Prettily played. If now 8. Q x KtP, Kt to QR4 wins 

 the Queen. 



(d) This loses a piece. Q to K4 was now essential. 



(e) 16. . . B to E7 is more decisive. 16. . . B to B5 

 would equally win the exchange. 



(/) Nullifying the effect of B to E7 and B to B5, but 

 letting the Bishop in at another door. 



(//) Probably overlooking the fact that he can avoid 

 further loss by 19. B to Kt2, BxB; 20. KxB, Q to 

 Q4ch ; 21. P to B3, Q to E7 ; 22. Q to K4, P to B4 ; 

 23. Q to Q3. This and his next move simply bring the 

 Black Eook into play. 



(h) E.y., 21. B to Kf2, Kt to K7ch, followed by B xBch 

 and Q to (^4ch. , ,, 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The match between Messrs. Bird and Jasnagrodsky was 

 finally abandoned as drawn, each player having won six 

 games, with three games drawn. 



Messrs. Loman and Herbert .Jacobs are now playing a 

 return match at the Metropolitan Chess Club. Mr. Loman 

 won the first match somewhat easily by 5 games to 1. 



The annual match at Paris between a weak team of the 

 British Chess Club and the Grand Cercle des Echecs 

 resulted in a victory for the Parisians by 4i to 2^. 



At Cambridge chess and mathematics go hand in hand. 

 Mr. H. E. Atkins, the best undergraduate player at either 

 University for the last three years, is bracketed ninth 

 wrangler this year. 



A match was played at Brighton on .June 10th between 

 Sussex and the City of London Chess Club. The London 

 Club was not very strongly represented, but strong enough 

 to wLn the match by 11 games to 9. 



The Hackney Mercury announces a sui-mate Tourney for 

 two, three, and four movers. Problems, not more than 

 two in any one section, should be sent to 101, Queen's 

 Road, Dalston, N.E., before September 1st. 



Cliess History and Remini licences, by H. E. Bird (Dean 

 and Son). Mr. Bird, tliough not so old as he looks, is stiil 

 the doyen of English Chess Masters, and a volume of his 

 reminiscences, ably edited, should be entertaining reading. 

 Unfortimately, Mr. Bird felt also called upon to write a 

 history of chess as she irns played many centuries before 

 his time. The result is merely a rt'sume of what has been 

 wi-itten before, and certainly has not the atoning quality of 

 good arrangement. Mr. Bird's historical style lacks the 

 vivacity of his games, and the punctuation of the book 

 is simply the worst on record. Still, the information here 

 collected may, if correct, be not without its value to some 

 future historian. 



Mr. Bird has acquired some curious knowledge in his 

 time. He knows, for instance, that " Italian sermons are 

 unmethodical and unconnected, and full of sentences and 

 maxims " (perhaps Italian preachers might retort with the 

 Tu qtiO(jne direct). On the other hand, he " really does not 

 know whether Homer really was ' neglected ' (Mr. Bird's 

 emendation for ' starved ') by his country or not." After 

 all, no man is omniscient. 



The modern reminiscences are at times amusing, though 

 some of the autobiography is perhaps not in the best pos- 

 sible taste, and many of the best anecdotes have already 

 appeared in Mr. MacDonnell's Chess Life Pittures. But 

 then Mr. Bird expressly states that he is "not a funny 

 man, most reserved among his superiors, yet looks good- 

 humoured." Like Mr. Pitt, he was formerly known as 

 " the enemy of the human race," though no doubt the title 

 lent itself to abbreviation. 



The author's views on chivalry, enthusiasm, Euskin, and 

 rapidity are well known, and are naturally repeated here. 



The book contains a portrait of the writer, without his 

 characteristic expression, and deficient in the " lines of 

 thought." But then we are told "many working men 

 have sought wrinkles from Bird" ; and this, perhaps, is 

 the explanation. 



For the " Chess Player's Annual and Club Directory, 

 1893 and 1894 " (price 2s. 6d.), the authors, Mr. and Mrs. 

 T. B. Rowland, Rus-in-Urbe, Kingstown, invite the follow- 

 ing particulars of chess clubs : — Town, club name, year 

 established, place of meeting, days, hours, number of 

 members, annual subscription, laws, president, hon. secre- 

 tary's name and address. Printed forms will be had on 

 application. 



Contents of No. 92. 



PAGE 



Spiny Animals. By R. Lydekker, 

 B.A.Cantab 101 



Caterpillars' Dwellings — III. 



By E. A. Butler 104 



The Olilebt Book in the Worl.l 

 By J. H. Mitdiiiier, F.R.A.S. 106 



Science Notes 107 



What is a Star Cluster ? By 

 A. C. Eanyard 109 



PAGE 



. 111 



Notices of Books 



Letters :— W. H. S. Moiick ; 



W. T. T.ynn ; Thos. Blasbill 112 

 On tho Distribution of the Stars 



in Spice. By Prof. J. C. 



Kapteyn 114 



The Pace of the Sky for Jnne. 



By Herbert Sadler, r.R.A.S. 118 

 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, 



B.A.Oxon 119 



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