CHESS. (To Correspondents.) ENIGMAS. No. 28. By Amy. WHITE.-K at Q 6th; R at K 2d; Kt at K R F. B. M.-Mr. Staunton is probably the best chess-player 2d; Ps at K B 3d, Q B 2d, and Q Kt 3d. BLACK.-K at Q 5th, Ps at K 6th and Q B 6th. CLOVERFIELD.-The solutions are correct, but we wish you No. 29. From the PICTORIAL TIMES. By M. R. F. had tried No. 25, as amended. Pray tell your fair friend WHITE.-K at his R 5th; R at K 5th; Bat "Betty," that we hope her success in solving our last Pro-QB 5th, and Kt at K B 5th. blem will induce her to try that in the present number. ENQUIRER.-We publish none but original positions on diagrams, though we make an occasional exception in favor of clever problems of Canadian authorship. We shall be glad to see your original Problem. AMY.-We have made use of your Enigma in the present number. The key move to Mr. Bolton's very pretty enigma in our last is 1. P becomes a Knight. The other, from the Schachzeitung, you have solved correctly. We should feel happy if some of our other correspondents would follow your example, and favour us now and again with an original position. Solutions to Problem 7, by J. B., Betty Martin, M. D., and J. H. R., are correct. BLACK.-K at Q R 4th and P at Q 4th. White to play and mate in three moves. IMPROMPTU BY A GENTLEMAN, ON PRESENTING HIS (From the Chess-Player's Chronicle.) whole For a partner through life, with a heart and a soul; Solutions to Enigmas in our last by Cloverfield, Amy, May you each in life's game e'er successfully move, Enquirer, are correct. And all conquests achieved, prove the conquests SOLUTION TO PROBLEM No. VII. of love; May you ever be able on banks to give check, May your fortunes permit you to dwell in the CHESS IN TORONTO. We extract from a recent number of the Chess Player's Chronicle the following spirited little game, played in Toronto last year between two amateurs, formerly distinguished members of the Cambridge Chess Clubs, and which the Editor of the Chronicle tells his English readers came off "in the backwoods of America." Should Mr. Staunton ever do us the honour of paying a visit to Toronto, we trust he will not feel any disappointment at finding a flourishing and rapidly increasing city instead of these "backwoods,"--the sudden disappearance of which, if it cause him any surprise, he must refer to "mysterious agency." (Evans' Gambit.) White. (MR. CALTHROP.) 1. P to K 4th. 2. K Kt to B 3d. Black. (Prof. CHERRIMAN.) P to K 4th. Q Kt to B 3d. (King's Knight's Gambit.) Black. (MR. P.) 1. P to K 4th. 12. Kt takes K Kt P. 13. B takes B. P takes P. P to K Kt 4th. P takes P (b). And Black announced checkmate in five moves. Notes. (a) Up to this point the game is correctly opened, but White should here play 7. Q B to K 3d, having a good defence. (b) The proper play is to advance the K Kt P on the Kt. (e) By this move he loses all chance of the game. P to Q 4th looks much more promising. CHESS IN GERMANY. Slight skirmish, lately played at the Toronto We are tempted to give the subjoined game, Chess Club, in which Mr. G. Palmer gives the odds which appeared in the Berlin Chess Magazine, the of the Queen's Kt. to another amateur. (Before Schachzeitung, some few months back, on account playing over this game, remove Black's Q Kt. of the instructive problem presented at the end. from the board.) (Allgaier Gambit.) (M. MATSCHEGO.) KB to QB 4th. 1. P to K 4th. B takes Kt P. 4. P to KR 4th. B to Q R 4th. K Kt to B 3d. B takes QB P (a). B takes QR. K to B sq. 10. Q B to Q R 3d (ch). P to Q 3d. 11. R takes K B. 12. Kt takes Kt. 13. P to K 5th. 14. P takes P. 15. R to K sq. 5. K Kt to K 5th. 6. Q Kt to B 3d (b). 9. K B to K 2d (c). 10. K to Q 2d. 16. R takes Kt. 17. B takes P (ch). K to Kt sq. 18. R mates. Notes. (a) Imprudent. His best play was to Castle. (b) Kt to Q R 4th would have been much more effective. (c) B to K B 4th seems his best move here. Another brief skirmish just played between two members of the Toronto Chess Club.. 13. Q Kt to Q 5th. Black. P to K 4th. P to K Kt 4th. P to K Kt 5th. K Kt to B 3d (a). K B to K 2d. Kt to K R 4th. B takes K RP (ch). Q to Kt 4th (d). Q Kt to B 3d. B to K B 7th. B takes Q P. P to K B 4th. P takes K P (ch). 14. Q Kt tks QBP (ch). (a) This defence is commended by Heydebrand in his last edition of the German Handbuch. (b) Better to play K B to Q B 4th. (c) The Schachzeitung recommends Q to her 3d at this point. (d) Mr. Falkbeer has now an attack which nothing can withstand. |