that antiquated kind. We seek in chess the wonderful, the whimsical, the
weird. Did you ever see a position like that?"

I inwardly congratulated myself that I never had.

"That position, sir, materializes the sinuous evolvements and syncretic,
synthetic, and synchronous concatenations of two cerebral
individualities. It is the product of an amphoteric and intercalatory
interchange of--"

"Have you seen the evening paper, sir?" interrupted the man opposite,
holding out a newspaper. I noticed on the margin beside his thumb some
pencilled writing. Thanking him, I took the paper and read--"Insane, but
quite harmless. He is in my charge."

After that I let the poor fellow run on in his wild way until both got
out at the next station.

But that queer position became fixed indelibly in my mind, with Black's
last move 43. K to Kt 8; and a short time afterwards I found it actually
possible to arrive at such a position in forty-three moves. Can the
reader construct such a sequence? How did White get his rooks and king's
bishop into their present positions, considering Black can never have
moved his king's bishop? No odds were given, and every move was
perfectly legitimate.




MEASURING, WEIGHING, AND PACKING PUZZLES.