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Chess No. 409

PHILIDOR Black White 7 men 6 men G. Guidel i (Good Companions, 1915). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 408 (Tuxen): Q - Q 2!, threat Kt -......

The Citadel Papers

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PROPOSALS IN CONNECTION WITH TENTATIVE NEGOTIATIONS CONCERNING A POS- SIBLE SETTLEMENT OF THE RHODE- SIAN CRISIS 1968. Her......

No. 521: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invited to construct a piece of intelligible prose around ten given words, chosen, as it happens, from H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things......

No. 523: Octet

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the fol- lowing five pairs of words......