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KNOWLEDGE. 



[October 1, 1900. 



No. 2. 



(C. D. Locock.) 



1. P to Kt5, and mates next move. 



Correct Solutions of both problems received from 



Alpha, H. S. Brandreth, G. A. Forde (Capt.), W. de P. 



Crousaz, G. W. Middleton, C. F. Pilchcr, K. W. 



Of No. 2 only, from H. Lc Jcuue. 



P. G. L. F. and W. Ge.vhy.— Many thanks for the 

 problems. 



H. Le Jeune.— If 1. Q to R3, B x Kt, and there is 

 no mate. 



P. Val Bl.\gy. — There is no solution competition in 

 progress, though 1 hope to be able to arrange one 

 shortly. In the mean time I venture to reply that the 

 reason why solvers send in their solutions lies in their 

 desire to show that they take an interest in the problem 

 department of this page. Your solutions are incorrect. 

 In No. 1 the Knight cannot mate at Q6 on account 

 of the Black Pawn" standing at QB2. In No. 2, after 

 1. B to Kt2ch, Kt X B, the White Queen, being pinned, 

 cannot mate at Q3. This pinning of the Queen, w^hen- 

 ev^r the Black Knight next to it moves, being indeed 

 the main point of the problem. 



C. F. PiLCHER. — You will sec that both your first 

 attempts have proved correct. 



PROBLEMS. 



By W. Geary. 



No. 1. 



Black (fi). 



■^m ^ HP « 



. »„„,„„ ^ ^i ,„„„ W 



'^ ^ W4 M 

 mm. mm. f^ m 



f WMi 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



W B ITV .T ) . 



White mates in two moves. 

 No. 2. 



BLArK (0). 



///////,'_ ''''''^^''^'' y,,,,,'''^'^^' y,,,,,,^' 



m 



^S® vlf/M, Wmf, 



I mMm m 



m m mWm 



White (5) 



White mates in three moves. 



The Amateur Tournament of the Southern Counties' 

 Chess Union, which carries with it the Newnes Challenge 

 Cup and the Amateur Championship, began at Bath 

 on September 3. There were 15 entries in the chief 

 event, and Mr. H. E. Atkins again carried off the first 

 prize without losing a game, scoring 12^ out of a possible 

 14. Mr. Herbert Jacobs was a good second with IH, 

 and Mr. Jones Bateman third with 10. The other 

 competitors were Messrs. H. H. Cole, W. Ward, F. J. H. 

 Elwell, B. D. Wilmot, A. Rumboll, E. B. Schwann, 

 J. F. Allcock, P. R. Gibbs, J. E. Parry, A. L. Stevenson, 

 C. J. Lambert, and F. Brown. 



It is with great regret that we announce the death 

 of Sheriff Spens, of Glasgow, for many years one ol 

 the leading players in Scotland, deservedly also one 

 of the most popular. He was for many years chess 

 editor of the GJaagoio Weekly Herald, and the founder 

 of the Scottish Association in 1884. He was distinguished 

 also in literature as in chess. 



The death of William Steinitz removes the most 

 notable player of the past generation. He won the 

 Chess Championship by his victory over Andei-ssen in 

 1866, and held it against all comers till his defeat at 

 the hands of E. Lasker in 1894. During this long 

 period he engaged in a very large number of matches, 

 his most noteworthy opponents being Zukertort, Black- 

 burne, Mackenzie, and Tchigorin. In all of these he 

 was uniformly successful, generally by decisive majori- 

 ties. In fact it was specially as a match player that 

 Steinitz was supreme. A long series of games gave him 

 time to recover from a bad start generally due to rash 

 experiments in the openings. It was characteristic of 

 the man that he would stick to these unsound ventures 

 long after all experts had demonstrated their unsound- 

 ness. But for this he would have been an even more 

 successful tournament player than he was, though in 

 this branch of play he was certainly one of the best. 

 The Steinitz Gambit cost him many games, as did 

 strange defences to the Ruy Lopez, and attacks against 

 the French Defence. This put him at a great dis- 

 advantage with all his fellow competitors. Every one 

 knew what defence or attack Steinitz would play in 

 any particular opening, and the weaker players were 

 coached by the stronger to rob him of many a game. 

 No one could be more brilliant than Steinitz when he 

 chose (witness the often quoted game against Bardeleben 

 at Hastings), but he preferred to win his games by the 

 logical scientific method of which he was the inventor, 

 christened by him " the accumulation of minute advan- 

 tages." He did not care to slay his antagonist suddenly 

 but preferred the method of slow strangulation. As a 

 writer on the game he was painstaking and suggestive, 

 if not always reliable, unrivalled too as an annotator 

 of games. No player since Paul Morphy has had a 

 greater or better influence on the game. 



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