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KNOWLEDGE. 



[NOVEMBEE 1, 1898. 



PROBLEMS. 



No. 1. 



By A. C. Challenger. 



BI.ACK (7). 



White {'.'}. 



White mates in two moves. 



No. 2. 

 By P. H. Williams. 



Black (5). 



White (:•). 



White compels Black to mate in six moves. 



[Black's first three moves are forced ; after that there are 

 two variations.] 



We have received a little book of sixty pages, entitled 

 " Games of the Counties and Craigside Chess Tournament, 

 1898." It will be remembered that Mr. A. Burn was the 

 winner of this tournament last Christmas, Mr. Bellingham 

 being second. These two players, in conjunction with 

 Mr. H. E. Atkins, the amateur champion, have annotated 

 nearly the whole of the games in this selection. There is 

 a report of the tournament, and a photograph of all the 

 players engaged. It is an excellent shilling's worth, 

 obtainable at that price from the Hon. Sec, Mr. A. Firth, 

 Bryn-y-Bia, Llandudno. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



The Amateur Tournament at Sahsbury, promoted by 

 the Southern Counties Chess Union, was successfully 

 concluded on September 20th. The score sheet in Class I. 

 reads as follows : — 



71 ) Tie for let 



7j i and 2nd. 



7 3rd prize. 



G 4th prize. 



HI 



5H 



5 



4^ 



8^ 



2 



1 



J. H. Blake (Southampton) 



W. Ward (City of London) 



W. H. Gunston (Cambridge University) 

 G. E. H. Bellingham (Dudley) 

 Dr. Bleiden (City of London) ... 



E. Loman (]\Ietropolitan) 



F. -J. H. Elwell (Southampton) 

 C. H. Sherrard (Stourbridge) ... 

 B. D. Wilmot (Birmingham) ... 



A. Kumboll (Bristol) 



A. L. Stevenson (Kent)... 



It will be seen that the scoring at the top was extremely 

 close. Mr. Gunston, who played better than he has in 

 public for some time past, led for the greater part of the 

 contest. Mr. Bellingham took some risks against the 

 three players above him, and lost to them all. An accident 

 had also affected his health, and is sufficient to account 

 for his comparatively low position. Mr. Wilmot did not 

 do nearly so well as at Craigside in the winter. The 

 remainder came out roughly in order of merit. In Class II., 

 Mrs. Fagan, of the London Ladies' Club, secured a most 

 creditable victory with the fine score of nine wins and two 



It now seems certain that an international tournament 

 will be held in London next year ; £500 has already been 

 subscribed. It will probably be a two-round tournament, 

 limited to sixteen or eighteen players. 



Mr. Steinitz recently played nineteen games simul- 

 taneously at the Hastings Chess Club, winning sixteen and 

 drawing the other three. 



KNOWLEDGE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



Contents ol No. 15s (September). 



Whale Models at the Natunil History 

 Museum. By K. Lydekker, B.A., 

 F.E.8. (niustraled.) 



Repetition and Evclutiou in Bird- 

 Song. By Charles A. Witchell. 



The K^kinokoSEo, or World of Cms. 

 tocea.— V. By the Eev. Thomas B. 

 B. Stebbing, m.a., f.e.s., f.l.s. 

 (Illustrated.) 



Economic Botany. By John R. Jack- 

 son. A.L.S., etc. 



British Ornithological Notes. 



Letters, (Illustrated.) 



Science Notes. 



Variable Stars of Short Period. By 

 Edward C. Pickering. (Illustrated.) 



The Astronomy of the "Canterbury 

 Tales." By E. Walter Maunder, 



F.E.A.8. 



Notices of Books. 



" Insect Miners." — II. By Fred. 



Enock,F.L.s..F.E.S., etc. (Illustrated} 

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By A. Vanghan Jennings, F.L.S., 



F.G.S. (Illustrated.) 

 Notes on Comets and Meteors. By 



W. F. Demiing, f.r.a.s. 

 The Face of the Sky for September. 



By A. Fowler, f.k.a.s. 

 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, b.a. 

 Plate. — Copilia Vitrea (Haeckel) and 



Calocalauus Plumulosus (Glaus). 



Contents of No. 156 (October). 



An Esker in the Plain. By Grenville 

 A. J. Cole, H.B.I. A., F.G.S. (Illus- 

 trated.) 



The Sea-Squirt. By E. Stenhouse, 

 A.a.c.s.. B.SC. 



The Affinities of Flowers.— The 

 BLadderwort and its Relatives. By 

 Felix Oswald, B.A., B.SC. (nius- 

 trated.) 



Ethnology at the British Slusemn. 

 By K. Lydekker. (ri!u*(rot«d.) 



The Fourth International Congress 

 oi Zoology. 



The Great Sunspot. By E. Walter 

 Maunder, f.e.a.s. (illustrated.) 



Letter. 



Science Notes. 



Notices of Books. 



British Ornithological Notes. Con- 

 ducted by Harry F. Witherby 



F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Sunspots and Life. By Alex. B. 



MacDowall. m.a. (IIlu.<tro(<><i.) 

 Economic Botany. By John R. 



Jackson, A.L.S., etc. 

 Notes on Comets and Meteors. By 



W. F. Denning. F.B.A.S. 

 The Face of the' Sky for October. By 



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 Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, b.a. 

 Plate. — The Great Group of Sunspots 

 of September 3rd— 15th, 1898. 



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