5 APRIL 1968, page 40

No. 493: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were asked to concoct examples of 'opening sentence one- upmanship' in the style of a real or imagined critic of the arts. Thackeray's......

Chess No. 381

PHILIDOR White Black 12 men 8 men M. Parthasarthy (1st Prize, Probleemblad, 1966) White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 380 (Driver): Q - K 4,......

Crossword No.1320

Across 1 Part of a novel musical combination (12) 8 Chamber music that comes to nought? (9) 9 Nothing with crab for this bean! (5) 11 Otherwise softwood makes up a trial (6) 12......