17 JANUARY 1969, page 29

Chess No. 422

PHILIDOR White 10 men 7 men A. J. Fink (Good Companions, 1920). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 421 (Narayanan and Krishna- murthy): Kt......

No. 534: The Winners Trevor Grove Reports: Competitors...

to compose an intelligible piece of prose around ten given words, taken from the opening pass- ages of a well-known work of literature; an exercise which this week not only......