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KNOWLEDGE. 



[OCTOBKE 1, 1898. 



No. 2. 

 By Dr. C. Planck (Haywards Heath). 



Buck (12). 







Whitk (»). 



White mates in three moves. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



In the Cologne Tournament the leading scores were : — 

 A. Burn (First prize), 11^; Charousek, Cohn and Tchigorin, 

 10^ ; Steinitz, f»i ; Schlechter and Showalter, 9 ; Berger, 

 8; Janowski, 7^; Popiel and Schiffers, 7. There were 

 sixteen entries, seven of whom had just finished their 

 arduous struggle in the Vienna tourney. Mr. Burn was 

 again in fine form : we do not remember that an English- 

 man has won any international tourney since Blackburne's 

 famous victory at Berlin in 1881. Mr. Burn lost one 

 game only, to Showalter. Of the others, Charousek quite 

 maintained his high reputation, Tchigorin did much better 

 than at Vienna, and Janowski much worse. 



The important Amateur Tournament of the Southern 

 Counties Chess Union began at SaUsbury on September 

 12th. A very strong list of entries was expected in Class I. 



Game played in the Cologne Tournament : — 



" Falkbeer's Counter Gambit." 

 Black. 

 (J. Bersor.) 



1. P to K4 



2. P to Q4 



3. P to K5 



4. Kt to KB3 



5. QxP 



6. B to KB4 



7. BxP 



8. Q to K3 (i) 



9. Q to K2 



10. QxKt 



11. KtxQ 



12. Kt to Q3 



13. Kt to Q2 



14. Castles 



15. PtoKR4'? 



16. P to KB3 (,) 



17. E to Ksq 



18. Kt to K4 



19. PxB 



20. PxP 



21. R to K.5 



22. P to KKt3 (-/) 

 28. RxKt 

 24. RxB 



2.5. P to B4 (/) 



26. P to B5 



27. P to Kt6 



28. RxP 



29. RxP 



30. R to Q3 



31. RxR 



32. R to Q5 



33. Resigns. 



25. P to Kt3 {<!) 



26. PxP 



27. R to Bsq 



28. E to Ktsq 



29. RxP 



30. R to B5ch 

 81. KtxR 

 32. Kt to Q3 



(n) This and the next lOve constitute the most fashion- 

 able modem defence. Ti Kt to QB8, on the next move, 

 would allow Black to pi the Knight, with opportunities 

 sometimes for P to K6 Irar on, if the White Bishop goes 

 toQ2. 



(6) Probably the bee answer to White's fine move. 

 There is no time for 8. .. Kt to B3 ; 9. B to Kt 2, Kt to 

 Q5 ; 10. Kt X B ! As i is, after the exchanges, White 

 with his two Bishops renins with the better game. 



(') An unpleasant ne^asity, unless he likes to give np 

 the exchange for a Pawi 



('/) All this is ingennsly played. White must now 

 exciiange in order to av 1 the Bishops of opposite coloora. 



(' ) A hallucination ; parently he overlooked that after 

 24. . . RxB, 25. P tclt7, the other Knight's Pawn is 

 no longer guarded ; or, irhaps, the defence mentioned in 

 the next note. 



(/■) If 25. P to Kt7, x P ; 20. R to Ktsq, R to Kt6 ! 



('/) 25. . . RxP 8h< Id be fairlv safe here ; if then, 

 26.' P to B5, R checks 27. K to Ktsq, RxP; 2h. R to 

 Etsq, B to Esq. The inainder is plain sailing. 



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