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KNOWLEDGE 



[October 2, 1893. 



entries for which close on October 10th. The full con- 

 ditions will be found in the August and September 

 numbers of Knowledge, and may be had on application to 

 the Chess Editor. 



Solution Tourney. 



1st Prize. — Half-a-guinea. 



2nd Prize. — Bird's CJwss Histonj and Reiiiiniscenres. 



This will commence in the November number, and will 

 run concurrently with the Problem Tourney. 



Two or three Problems will be published each month. 



Solutions must reach Knowledge Ofiice on or before 

 the 12th of each month. 



Marks will be awarded as follows : — For each correct 

 key-move, three points ; for each dual continuation (on 

 the second move), one point. One point will be deducted 

 for every incorrect claim. If a Problem has no solution, 

 " No solution " must be claimed. If a Problem has more 

 than one solution, duals will not score. 



Notes. 



(a) Steinitz was the first to discover and condemn this 

 move on account of Black's reply. 



(6) With vei7 bad judgment White enters on a counter 

 attack, which originally occurred in the Steinitz-Blackburne 

 match. Mr. Bird, who must have been well acquainted 

 with the whole variation, fails to perceive that, though a 

 move ahead as compared to the game referred to, this 

 circumstance is actually a disadvantage — vide note (c). 



(c) Better now than 11. . . K to K3 as played by 

 Steinitz, because White, owing to his 4th move, cannot 

 attack the Queen with Knight. 



(d) In order to bring out the Knight at B3. 12. 

 P X Ktch, followed by the exchange of Queens, would leave 

 Black a great superiority, while 12. Kt to Q2, K to K3 

 would leave Black a piece ahead. 



(e) A blunder. The Ntiova Ririita, from which the score 

 of this game is taken, gives the following continuation : — ■ 

 13. P to QKt4, QxPch; 14. Kt to Q2, R to Qsq; 15. 

 P X Ktch, PxP; 10. Castles (!). But 16. B x Pch instead 

 would win the exchange, showing that Black's 14th move 

 was incorrect. 



(/) If the Queen moves, Black takes the KP with Queen. 



(//) 19. . . R to Qsq seems even stronger. 



(//) An attempt to draw by 20. R to B4, QxKP; 21. 

 R x P, Q X R ; 22. E to Ksqch, proves futile. His nest 

 move is waste of time, but there is no chance anyhow. 



(/) 23. R to KBsq at once was clearly better. But the 

 Black alhes never gave Mr. Bird a chance after his 13th 

 move. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The great Columbian Chess Congress appears after all to 

 have been indefinitely postponed owing to lack of the 

 necessary funds. Several European players had already 

 crossed the Atlantic in order to take part in the tournament 

 when the announcement was made. 



Mr. Lasker has at length definitely challenged Mr. 

 Steinitz to a match of ten games up. The other conditions 

 proposed are of a kind with which Mr. Steinitz will not be 

 able to find fault, being in fact those on which he ordinarily 

 insists. The match, if it takes place, is to commence 

 before January 1st, a date which would allow Mr. Steinitz 

 ample time to collect his backers. 



Herr Albin, the solitary conqueror of Dr. Tarrasch in 

 the Dresden Tourney, has taken advantage of his visit to 

 the States to play a match with Mr. A. B. Hodges. After 

 each player had won four games the prize was divided. 



The National Tournament of the German Chess Asso- 

 ciation took place at Kiel last month, the result being a 

 victory for Herr Walbrodt. Herr von Bardeleben was 

 second, a great improvement on his recent form, and Herr 

 von Gottschall third. 



A very fine series of three-move problems by Mr. 

 Blackburne is now appearing in the weekly chess column 

 of the Daily News. Mr. Blackburne adheres to the old 

 school of problem-composition; in other words, each problem 

 has a fine key leading to one main idea, the minor variations 

 (if any) being strictly subordinate. Personally, we much 

 prefer this to the modern style of problem, in which the 

 Black King is chased over the whole board, "a foUed 

 circuitous wanderer." 



Contents of No. 95 



PAQE 



Tootlied Whales aud their 

 Ancestry, By R. Lydekker, 

 B.A.Cantab 161 



Galls and their Occupants — III. 

 ByE. A. Butler 164 



The Light-Changes of Y Cygni. 

 By Miss A. M. Clerke 166 



The Great Lunar Crater Coper- 

 nicus. By A. C. Eanyard 169 



FAOe 



Science Notes 178 



Letters :— J. R. Holt; H. St. A. 



Alder ; W. T. Lynn ; E. F. 



Macgeorge ; E. W. Maunder; 



A. M. Clerke 173 



The Face of the Sky for 



September. By Herbert Sadler. 



F.R.A.S 178 



Chess Column. By C. D, Locock, 



B.A.Oxon 179 



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