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.
in the world. Next to him we should place the celebrated
Russian player, Petroff, and the profound German, Von
Heydebrandt der Lasa.

BLACK.-K at Q 5th, Ps at K 6th and Q B 6th.
White to play and mate in three moves.

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.

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
NIECES WITH A SET OF CHESSMEN.
(From the Chess-Player's Chronicle.)

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 The box now presented to you, my dear nieces, your example, and favour us now and again with an ori-Start not! contains men, though in thirty-two pieces; ginal position. But may each of you meet with one perfect and

Solutions to Problem 7, by J. B., Betty Martin, M. D., and J. H. R., are correct.

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,
And may Bishops and Knights oft bow at your beck;
May Castles surrender whene'er you attack 'em,
And staunch prove your men, with your good Queen
to back 'em;

May your fortunes permit you to dwell in the

And enjoy life's delights without tasting its cares. May you each find a mate, this life's journey to sweeten;

And though more than once mated, may you never be beaten !

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.

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.

(Allgaier Gambit.)

(M. MATSCHEGO.)

White. (MR.
P to K 4th.
Q Kt to B 3d.
K B to QB 4th.

1. P to K 4th.
2. P to K B 4th.
3. K Kt to B 3d.

B takes Kt P.

B to Q R 4th.

K Kt to B 3d.

B takes QB P (a).

B takes Q R.

K to B sq.

10. QB 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. 16. R takes Kt.

4. P to K R 4th.
5. K Kt to K 5th.

6. Q Kt to B 3d (b).
7. Kt to QB 4th.
8. P to Q 4th.

9. K B to K 2d (c).

10. K to Q 2d.

Q Kt takes Q P (b).

11. K to Q 3d.

12. P to Q R 3d.

P takes Kt.

Kt to K 5th.

P takes P.

Q to K B 3d (c).

Q takes B.

13. Q Kt to Q 5th.

14. Q Kt tks QBP (ch).
15. Q Kt to Q 5th.
16. K Kt takes Q P.
17. K to Q B 4th.

Black.
(MR. FALKBEER.)

P to K 4th.
P takes P.

P to K Kt 4th.

P to K Kt 5th.

K Kt to B 3d (a).
P to Q 3d.

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.
K to Q sq.

P to K B 4th.

P takes K P (ch).

And here Black announced mate in nine moves.
We leave the solution to the sagacity of our readers.
Notes.

(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.