30 JULY 1983, page 31

Chequers Competition No 2

My experience from Competition No 1 has made it clear that the positions set were dauntingly difficult. Accordingly, No 2, given below, is much easier to handle. Please write......

Postscript

Pattern and Patten P. J. Kavanagh W ith the customary heartlessness of youth — as the bruises accumulate we become more tender — I was amused, as well as touched, by the shock......

Competition

No. 1280: Clampdown Set by Charles Seaton: You are asked for up to 16 lines of verse 'On Finding a Wheel Clamp on my Car'. Entries to 'Competition No. 1280' by 12 August.......

Chess

Solutions Raymond Keene T he positions set for analysis in the first Chequers Chess Competition on 18 June were these: The basic answers 1 had been hoping for were, for Position......

No. 1277: The Winners

Report by Jaspistos: Competitors were ask- ed for an extract from a description of a sporting event by a correspondent badly af- flicted with stylistic floridity. The Wimbledon......