3 JANUARY 1969, page 28

Good Old Days

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS From The Wilsonian Idyll, by Angus Windsor- Frost Junior, to be published in the early part of 2069 by Weidenfeld and Weidenfeld at Nf55. Looking back at......

No. 534: The Word Game

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to use the ten following words taken from the opening passages of a well-known work of literature, in the order given, to construct part of a......

No. 532: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports : In order to select the champion of champions for 1968, previous prizewinners (and only they) were invited either to compose a New Year's resolution, in......

Chess No. 420

PHILIDOR Black White 5 men 9 men C. Mansfield (British Chess Magazine, 1915). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 419 (Searley): K - K 3!,......