FOREST AND STREAM. 



497 



Salt Lake City, Jan. 15, 1878.— The Rifle Association have 

 held a preliminary meeting and taken the necessary steps to 

 inaugurate the enterprise. There are three clubs here— the 

 "Pioneer," the "Deseret," and the '■' Amateur" — and have 

 made some good scores. 



San Feanoisoo, Jan, 15.— Our company (Co. E, First 

 Regiment, Second Brigade) shooting comes off twice a week 

 for our class medals, the man having the highest score win- 

 ning the medal, which is shot for again the next match day ; 

 then, at the end of the year, the man making the most 

 winnings is entitled to the medal. We have also formed a 

 long-range rifle club, which is known as the San Francisco 

 Long-Range Club. "We have a match on the first Saturday 

 in each month for the club's diamond badge. It must be won 

 four times, not consecutively, before it becomes the property 

 of the individual. The members of the club are ; J. G. Lie- 

 bert, President ; F. G-. Edwards, Treasurer ; R. OH Hanson, 

 Secretary; Capt. H. J. Burns, H. C. Smith, I. M. Pike, Jno. 

 Harmon, F. G. Blinn, F. Miller, E. P. Payson, Lieut. J. 

 Robertson. 

 Company shooting, Jan. 13, 1878 : 



Lieut J Robertson { «£5 * « £ | * • « * £«} _ 93 



o-wbu™ ]28=S$SJ25!f $££}-« 



B0H -» {^ztliiiiiiiizth^ 



CorpWFLeeman { 258 2 $ J S S 1 1 fcg} -* 



Privatp T, TisriWe ) 200—4 44434544 5—41 1 — 



rnvate u uarrere -j 500 _ 4 24 3255 4 4 6-38 | ' 9 



Private H F Backus i W ' ) ^ i 8 3 1 4 3 4' 5 5 3-3S > - ft 



r nvaie n x .Backus -j 500 _ 5 4 4 430555 3 _3 8 )-76 



Corn 6 B Preble j 200_ S 54544555 3-44) „ R 



worp « a ireoie ^ 500-2344348 a 2 5-32 f _16 



Serct W W MrfSnwnn } 20 °— 3 ^4434544 4—38 I -„ 



serge w W AlCGOWan \ 500-4 343 33 3 4 5 3-35f- 7s 



Private TT7 Phlllinn ■ • 200—3 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 3 3— 35> „„ 



irivate j j£ Phillips ^ B0Q _ i 43544443 3— 38f -T8 



Private .T PM-kina J 200—4 43333432 3—32 1 ,, 



private j Perkins -j m _ t 04845545 5-39 f- T1 



LIEUTENANT. 



Califobnia— St. Bet/no.— Team shooting between the 

 Nationals and Unions: 



NATIONAL SOOBE. UNION SCOBE. 



Maher 4 45344544 4-41 Warren 4 46454525 5—45 



445545545 4—45 454535545 5—45 



344454554 4—42 444433545 5—41 



445444435 4—41 444445455 4—42 



Total 169 Total 173 



KlOSO 4444 44 45 4 5-42 Ladd .5435445544-43 



443444445 5-^11 444444544 4—40 



344454444 4—40 454544444 4-42 



445445544 3—42 4 4 54444B4 5—43 



Total 165 Total 168 



Le Breton. 444445444 5—12 Hook 4 43444435 3—39 



453444534 4—40 344544434 4—39" 



453454434 5—41 444444433 4-38 



455354344 4—41 44443454 « 3—40 



Total 164 Total 156 



Team total 498 Team total ..497 



The Sumneks.— At Bay View the Sumnera made the fol- 

 lowing scores : 



T'l 



—Mr. W. H. Gilder, in the last number of the Volunteer 

 Service Oaeette, writes in high praise of the Sharps rifle. As 

 to the necessity of wiping out every time, he says : 



"On that day (Jan. 3) I fired twenty shots, wiping out 

 after each shot, the first three being used as blowing-off shots 

 to get the barrel to a proper temperature ; in the remaining 

 seventeen shots I had 14 bulls 1 inner and two magpies. I 

 then fired ten rounds without wiping out, and scored 41 

 points, as follows :404445555 5—41. The miss was 

 owing to my omitting to raise the elevation for the dirty 

 barrel, which dropped" just under the target. There was a 

 fresh breeze from the left, and my wind-gauge vailed from 

 18 to 23. My opinion is that the rifle will shoot as well with- 

 out cleaning as with, if proper cartridges are used. " 



$h& %nme off H0m8, 



Notice.— Chess exchanges, communications and solutions should be 

 addressed " Chess Editor Forest and Stream, P. O. box 54, Wolcott- 

 ville, Conn." 



Problem No. 3. 

 Tourney set— No. 2. Motto— Talk enough— Gossip ! 



200 yds. 



Lieut Robertson 44 



Capt H J Burns 40 



EC- Hunt 3S 



Corp WF Leman 43 



L Barrers 41 



H FBaehus 38 



Corporal C B Preble 44 



Sergt W W McGowan 88 



JKPhllnps 35 



Private Perkins. 32 



500 yds. 



49 



45 



46 



Lieut. J . Robertson made a run of 12 bull's-eyes in succes- 

 sion at 500 yards. F. Sherman, of the National Guards, made 

 at 500 yards— 73 out of a possible 80. 



San Rafael Rifle Club.— The following score was made 

 over the team's range, at 200 yards, out of a possible fifty 

 points : 



EBubolS 4 44345553 5—42 



RC Moore 4 354 4 4455 4—42 



£GBerry : 4 34444554 3—40 



GWParKer 3 44433445 4-38 



FJJacobS 3 3 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 4—38 



RARotcbe 4 45443304 4-35 



James Tunstead 4 32434344 2-33 



TWParker..., 4 03202344 4—26 



That Stbange Bullet.— Editor Forest and Stream: I 

 noticed in the Forest and Stream of Jan. 3 a query as to 

 a bullet sent to you by a Canadian hunter. A correspondent 

 in the paper of Jan. 10 says that it resembles a ball used by 

 the Italian Bersaglieri some twenty years ago. So it does ; 

 but the Italian bullet was of a much smaller calibre— 65-100 

 weighed but 530 grains, and was fired from a gun rifled with 

 eight groves. The bullet under (Ascription weighed about 780 

 grains, and was fired from a twelve-bore rifle. A twelve- 

 bore rifle takes a No. 11 bullet, the calibre of which is as near 

 as maybe 74-100, the exact size of the Canadian projectile, 

 The grooves, twelve in number, indicate a sporting gun ; as 

 the European military rifles used generally from four to eight 

 grooves, only one Government, that of Wurtemburg, using a 

 rifle with twelve ; while hdavy sporting rifles of large bore 

 as used in India, are almost always poly-grooved. The oat- 

 tern of bullet, a cylinder surmounted by a true cone, has been 

 followed in Hanover both for military and sporting purposes 

 with one difference only, which is, that the Hanover ball had 

 a single groove around the cylinder. The military ball was 

 of a smaller calibre than your specimen, and weighed much 

 less. The sporting ball I have frequently seen used in roe- 

 buck hunting nearHomburg-les-Bains, the guns being double 

 of large calibre, 12 or 16* one barrel rifled and the other 

 smooth. Such a gun was usually carried by the game keener 

 or"Jager." & F 



The bullet in question was fired with a light charge or 

 else it was "spent" when it struck the deer. This is 

 shown by the fact that it has so well kept its original shape 

 A. ball traveling with high velocity would have " mush- 

 roomed" on striking, if of soft material. A word as to the 

 weight of the red deer slain by your Canadian friend, which 

 he "guesses " at 400 pounds. If he means the common deer 

 or " Cervus wrginiaiwa," he must have "guessed" while 

 looking through an inverted glass darkly, for the largest buck 

 on record only turned about 250 pounds before dressing, and 

 the white-tail usually runs far below that figure. 



Brooklyn, Jan. 16, 1878. LsAXHEBSTOcaaMO. 



White to play and mate in two moves. 



solutions— no. 1. 



As printed, this problem admits of two solutions. The problem as 



originally sent has a white P at K Kt 6, and a black P at K Kt 2, thus 



avoiding a second solution. 



1— B-KR3 1— any or, 1— Kt-Q5 l : any 



2— mates 2— mates. 



Solutions will appear two weeks alter the publication of problem and 

 a table of the competing solvers score appear in this column from time 

 to time. 



Game No. 4.— RUG LOPEZ. 



Black. "White. 



Dr. Spencer. Mr. Hosmer. 



1— P-K4 

 2— Kt.QB3 

 8-P-QR3 

 4-Kt-K B3 

 5— Kt-tk8 P 

 6-P-Q Kt4 

 T— Kt-lksKt 

 8— P-Q 



12— B-B6 Ch 

 13— Kt-Q B3 

 14— BK B3 



IS— Kt-Q5 (c) 

 16— B-B4 

 17-R-K (d) 



18— KttksB 

 19— QRtksR 



Black. 

 Dr. Spencer, 

 12-K-B (b) 

 13— R-KtS 

 14— Kt-K B4 

 15— R-Q3 

 16-R-Q2 

 17— P-Q B3 

 18— R Us R (e) 

 19— Kt-Q5 (f) 



i— Kt Us Q B P 20— Kt tks Kt (g) 

 21-R tks Q ch 21— Kt tks R 

 And white mates in two moves. 



White. 

 Mr. Hosmer. 



1— P-K4 



2— Kt-K B3 



3 -B-Q Kt5 



4-B-R4 



5— Castles 



6— P-Q4 



7-Kt-tks K P 



S— P tks Kt 



9— PtksPenpass 9— Kt tks. 

 10— B-Q Kt3 10— B-K2 



11— B-Q5 11— R-Q Kt 



(a) Excluding Black's 8th move, the opening follows a late analysis, 

 by Herr Fries, of Rothenburg— published originally in the SchactZei- 

 tung—a. translation of which appeared in the June No., 187T, of the 

 Chess Player's Chronicle. Instead of 8— P-Q4, that analysis is continued 

 as follows, Viz. r 8— B-Kt2; 9— B-Kt3 ; 9— P-Q4, If 8— P tks B ; 9— Q-Q5 

 recovers the piece, with a superior position. If Black should play 7— 

 P tks B, then S— Kt tks Kt, 8— P tks Kt ; 9— R-K, followed by 10— P K 

 B3. In late games between Mr. Jenkin and Prof. Waite, the latter 

 played 3— P-Q3 to avoid the Fries attack, but the editor of the Chronicle 

 thinks the B can be taken "if followed speedily by B-Kt2 or Q R5. we 

 fail to discover why 5—BK2 followed by either of the variations Nos. 

 21, 22 and 23, p. 238 Handbuch, 1874, or No. 35, p. 240 of the same edition, 

 if they are recognized as sound, does not show that Fries' analysis can 

 be resolved into the usual and leading variation, viz.: 3— P-Q R3 ; 4— B- 

 R4, 4— Kt-B3 ; 6— P-Q4, 5— P tks P ; 6— P K5, 6-Kt-K5 ; 7— Castles, 7— B- 

 K2 ; 8— R-K, 8— Kt-B4 ; 9— B tks Kt, 9— B P tks B ; 10— Kt tks P, etc. 



(6) B-Q2 was the proper move, but in off-hand games the Doctor seeks 

 as early opportunity as circumstances, in his judgment, will warrant 

 to bring about a counter attack. 



(c) A hazardous looking move, inasmuch as the Kt cannot be saved, 

 but made, as the subsequent play showB, after due deliberation. 



(d) The initial move of a very neat and, better still, a sound combina- 

 tion. 



(e) Perfectly sound. The Black Queen must shortly, in any event, be 

 yielded up, if the game would be prolonged. 



(/) The best combination now was 19— Q tks Kt; 20— R tks Q, 20— K 

 tks R; 21— B tks P, leaving as a result to white, for his finely con* 

 ceived plans, the trophy of a pawn. 



is) Whatever Black does he must be equally as generous as white and 

 give up the Queen, now, however, with the loss of the game.— Chess 

 Journal. 



The following fine game, with notes, is taken from Staunton's Praxis. 

 Mr. E. Morphy writes as a marginal note, In a book in our possession 

 containing this game, to this game, " Most beautiful :" 

 Game No. 5.— GI7JOCO PIANO. 



White. 

 Lange. 



1-P-K4 



2— Kt-K B3 



3— B-Q B4 



4— Castles 



5-P-Q4 



6— K Kl tks B 



7— P-K B4 



8— P tks P 



9— R tks K B P 

 10— BtksKfch 

 11— Q-Q5 ch 



Black. 

 Heineman, 

 1-P-K4 

 2— Kt-Q B3 

 3-B-Q B4 

 4-Kt-K B3 

 5-BtksQP 

 6— Q Kt tks Kt 

 T-QKt-K3(a) 

 8— K Kt kt lb) 

 9— K tks R 



10— K tks B 



11-K-K2 



White. 



Lange. 

 12— B-K Kt5 eh 

 13— Kt-Q B3 

 14— R,K B 

 15— P tksKt ch 

 16— R tks P 

 17-P-K5 

 IS— B tks R ch 

 19-Q-K B3 

 20— Kt-K4 



21— B-Q8 ch and wins. 



Black. 

 Heineman. 

 12— Kt-K B3 

 13— R-K B 

 14-P-Q3 

 15-P tks P 

 16— R tks R 

 17— B-K3" 

 1S-K-B2 

 19-Q-K Kt 

 20— P tks P 



(a) If 7-P-Q3 then follows 8-P tks P ; 9-K B-Kt5, etc. H 7-Kt-Q 

 B3 then 8— B tks B P ch, 9— P tks P, etc. 



(6) It would have been unwise to take the K P, on account of s— Q-K 

 B3, 8-Kt-K 4; 0-Q B tifl Kt, 0-Kt tU B ; 10-B tka B Pci, #tc 



CURSORY JOTTINGS. 



—The chess " Literary Tourney" of the Hartford Times is now at an 

 end, the committee having made their report and Mr. Bedden declared 

 who the prizewinners are, viz,: Prize poem, " The Final Mate," by Mrs. 

 H. Bryant Hazeltine, or "Phania." Prize story, "The Two Knights' 

 Defence," by Mr. Joseph Wainright, of Walpole, Mass. Prize essay, 

 "The World's CheBS Champions," by Mr. Alphonse Delannoy, of Lon- 

 don, England, The commitee were Mrs. J. W. Gilbert, Chas. A. Gil- 

 berg, Esq., and Rev. Augustus Blauvelt. 



— Brownson's chesB Journal, Dubuque, la., for January, is quite inter- 

 esting reading for a chess player, and the problem department of more 

 than ordinary interest to solvers. We clip the followiug from it : " The 

 Chicago Chess Association has moved to 150 Dearborn St., where ne 

 plus uUra accommodations are had. A lively time this winter will be 

 the result in Chicago chegs circles. " 



— " Raise to chess a song of gladness ! 

 Let it drive away all sadness. 

 Bring one tribute to its glory, 

 To its lasting fame and story, 

 In man's soul its throne doth rest, 

 Game of all earth's games the best." 



— Prom Hartford Times' Literary Tourney. 



—The late Remington Wilson was the owner, at the time of his 

 death in November last, of the largest chess library in the world. Ac- 

 cording to V. A. Linden, the works on chess that have appeared since 

 A. D. 850 numbered 2,209. 



—A consultation match la pending in Philadelphia. The contestants 

 are : Messrs. Neill and Elson vs. Messrs. Reichelm and Davidson. The 

 first game resulted in a draw, which is nothhig unusual in such con- 

 tests. Consultation matchesamonnt to but very little, but still leading 

 players engage in these unpopular matches, instead of meeting one 

 another openly and fairly. 



ANSWKBS TO COEUHSPONDKNTS. 



C. C. H., Cambridge, Mass., and others.— The game was taken from 

 the City of London Chess Magazine. 



Herman C. Brog, Rocky Hill, N. J.-The problem is solvable in two 

 moves, but, alas! in two ways, as you will see by solution above ;. your 

 solution is, therefore, correct. Have written. 



Rook, Bishop and King, of N. Y. City ; Status and Incog, of Boston 

 and several others, will please send us their addresses. 



J. K. Andrews, Washington, Pa.— Solution duly received. Stanton's 

 "Handbook and Praxis," and Gossip's or Wormald's books on chess 

 are what you need. Anyone can easily acquaint himself with the 

 "technical terms " used in chess. 



Franklin Beary, Astoria, L. I— Solution received. Thanks for kind 

 wishes for success of chess column, because a most interesting feature 

 of the paper. 



R. H. S., Holyoke, -Mass.— That transcript is a long while in reaching 

 us. Your request has been attended to. 



J. G. B. and Gladius.— Your notices in Times and Globe did not es- 

 cape our eyes. Many thanks for the same. 



B., Cleveland, O.— The " Eight Queen, etc.," is about exhausted. The 

 following, which we clip from the Chess Record, may interest you : "We 

 present a magic square, King-'s tour, the first attempt, we believe, oit 

 this kind— Begin by placing- the King on Queen's square, and contrive 

 Q. R's square (where the intervening squares are not mentioned, the 

 march is in a straight llne),Q.R2; Q.2; K3;KR3; K.R,4;K4 

 K5; K. R5; K. R. 6; K 6; Q7 ; Q. R. 7; Q. R. 8; K. R. 8; KR7: K 

 7; Q.6; Q.R.6; Q.R.5; Q.5; Q. 4; Q.R.4; Q.R.3; Q. 3 ; K. 2 

 K. R. 2 ; K. R. sq ; K sq. By remembering Q. sq No. 1, and so on to 64, 

 it will be found that the rows and files will each sum up 260. 



L. W. M., Princeton, N. J.— Have written you, but have received no 

 answer. Why 1 

 B. S. Wash, St. Louis.— Your address is requested. 



the: forest and stbeam peoblem tourney. 

 Recognizing the increasing favor with which this branch of the roya 

 game is regarded we have decided to offer a number of liberal prizes 

 for competition. 



the prizes. 



1. For the best set $2500 



2. For the second best set *"' on no 



3. For the third best set ' 10 X 



4. For the best three move problems "" 500 



5. For the best two move problems "' 500 



6. For the second best three move problems ..". 2 00 



7. For the second best two move problems 2 00 



8. For the best problem entered in the tourney .........«! 500> 



Each composer is invited to send in a two move problem accompanied! 



by his photograph, the author of the winning position to receive as a. 

 prize all the photographs. 

 Problems will be judged according to the following standard. 



BULL'S PROBLEM CODE. 



1. Beauty and originality of design 1 to"10 Doints. 



2. Difficulty of solution 1 to'lo " 



3. Aceuracy and elegance of construction ?•_... 1 to 10 " 



RULES. 



Competition is open to the world. AH problems to be direct mates-^ 

 that is to say, white to play and mate in two or three moves, as the case 

 maybe. An problems must be original and not hitherto published. Com- 

 petitors may enter as many sets, or single problems as they please. 

 Each competitor will affix a motto to every single set or problem sent 

 in and also inclose his name and address. Competing problems will be 

 submitted to the umpire, Charles A. Gilberg, Esq., who wUl report all 

 unsound positions. American composers will be allowed four weeks in 

 which to correct such positions ; foreign composers being allowed eight 

 weeks for the same purpose. Should the requisite corrections not be 

 received within the time specified the positions will then be ruled out of 

 the tourney . The tourney will be open to competition until the first day 

 of July 1878, after which date the list will be closed. The prizes will be 

 awarded within two weeks after the publication of the last problem. 

 Address E. A. Kunkel, Wolcottvllle, Conn. 



THE FOREST AND STREAM SOLVERS' TOURNEY. 



This tourney commences with problem No. 1 and will continue until 

 all the problems entered in the above problem tourney are published 



THE PRIZES. 



1. Cash prize of 



8. " " " 



3. The Forest and Stream for one year. . 



4. Cash prize of 



6. '* " *' 



$10 00 



5 00 



3 00 

 2 00 

 2 00 



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