A Famous Chess Problem.
This is a famous problem, and several notable chess-players of the old school have amused themselves with it:
To make the knight move into all the squares of the chess-board in succession, without passing twice over the same.
Of the four solutions to the problem, Demoivre's is the easiest to follow. I will furnish Montmort's, Mairan's, or M. W——'s solution to any member so desiring, provided a stamp is sent for reply. Following is Demoivre's solution:
| 34 | 49 | 32 | 11 | 36 | 39 | 24 | 1 |
| 21 | 10 | 35 | 50 | 23 | 12 | 37 | 40 |
| 48 | 33 | 62 | 57 | 38 | 25 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | 20 | 51 | 5 | 63 | 60 | 41 | 26 |
| 32 | 47 | 58 | 61 | 56 | 53 | 14 | 3 |
| 19 | 8 | 55 | 52 | 59 | 64 | 27 | 42 |
| 46 | 31 | 6 | 17 | 44 | 29 | 4 | 15 |
| 7 | 18 | 45 | 30 | 5 | 16 | 43 | 28 |
Vincent V. M. Beede, R. T. F.
17 Webster Place, East Orange, N. J.
Wants a Round Table Reunion.
Those of us who were in Boston during the week of the Templars' Conclave will never forget the parade. Twenty-five thousand men, with the motto, "Fraternity," "Fidelity," "Charity," marched from eleven o'clock in the morning to six in the evening. The flying banners, emblematic signs, playing bands, and general feeling of good-fellowship all combined to make one wish that the Round Table could have some similar convention. We have the same friendly feeling towards each other; we have emblems; we have Chapters; and we have a hundred thousand members.
What could we not do in a three days' convention? We could hold our all-round athletic championship tournament for the gold medal; we could have an exhibition of the Table's handicraft work; we could organize and have a "Grand Master," as the Templars have; and think how it would "boom" the membership and promote good-fellowship. I, for one, am in favor of holding a convention this year in New York, and several of my correspondents hold the same ideas. If some one with a "planning head" will "take hold" and develop my ideas I will be glad to hear from them.