28 SEPTEMBER 1985, page 41

Competition

A couple of birds Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1388 you were asked for a poem with the rhyme-scheme: shine, right, sight, mine, appalled, same, name, called, confounded,......

Chess

Flat out Raymond Keene A fter Karpov's two wins there have been two draws in the world cham- pionship, and the score currently looks like this: Karpov 0 1/2 1/2 1 1 1/2 1/2......