No. XLIV.—CHESS CAMEO
By Frank Healey
BLACK
WHITE
White to play, and mate in three moves.
A NEAT METHOD OF DIVISION
To divide any sum easily by 99, cut off the two right-hand figures of the dividend and add them to all the others. Set down the result of this in line below, and then repeat this process until no figures remain on the left to be thus dealt with.
Now draw a line down between the tens and hundreds columns, and add all up on the left of it, thus:—