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Competition

No. 600: In celebration As a special 600th anniversary exercise, com- petitors are invited to celebrate their own imponderable skills with an ode or sonnet to The Compleat......

Chess 486

PHILIDOR S. Loyd (Frere's Chess Hand-Book, 1857). White to play and mate in four moves; solution next week. Sam Loyd was in some ways a very-much-not- missing link between the......

Crossword 1425

Across: I There's trouble brewing here! (6) 4 This lady might well have inhabited a castle in Spain (8) 10 Ten ears for those who are said to be dearest (7) 11 Ring for time at......