21 JANUARY 1966, page 20

Wearing Of The Green

Snapshots and Towards a New Novel. By Alain Robbe-G rillet. Translated by Barbara Wright. (Calder and Boyars, 30s.) THE settings to the current batch of novels are diverse, but......

Chess

By PHIL1DOR 266. G. Hurncons (Hampstead Express, I9 0 5) BLACK (ix men) a WHITE (10 men, WHITE to play and mate in two moves ; next week. Solution to No. 265 (Cheney) : 1—Q R 8......