Chess Player's Chronicle, Volume 10R. Hastings., 1849 - Chess |
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advance advantage adversary amateur appears attack better Bishop Black Capt Castles 9 Chess Club drawn eighth check exchange fifth 15 fifth 20 fifth 9 force fourth 13 fourth 21 fourth check gained Gambit given gives HARRWITZ HORWITZ K. B. fifth K. B. second K. B. square K. B. takes K. B. third K. B. to Q K. B. to Q. B. K. R. fifth check King lose lost match Mate MEDLEY Messrs move Notes pieces players position preferred present PROBLEM Q. B. eighth Q. B. fourth Q. B. seventh Q. B. to K Q. R. to Q Queen Rook second 11 second 23 second 9 side sixth square 16 square 25 square check suppose taken takes K. B. P. takes K. P. takes Kt takes Q third 11 third 9 third check Threatening variations White to play wins
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Page 94 - Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise...
Page 172 - M.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. Q. Kt. to B. third 3. KB to QB fourth 4. B. takes Q. Kt. P. 5. B. to QR fourth 6. P. takes P. 7. P. to Q. third 8. B. to Q. Kt. third 9. K. Kt. to B. third 10.
Page 94 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Page 303 - РЕВЮАЬ.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. K. Kt. to B. third 3. B. to QB fourth 4. P. to Q. Kt. fourth 5. P.
Page 246 - ... over a chess-board ; but we never saw any person attain to excellence in the game with ease, who was not possessed of superior abilities. Indeed, whatever may be the faults of chess, it cannot be charged with that of being too easy. Lord Bacon censured it as ' too wise a game.' Walter Scott withdrew from it, alleging that ' he saw a man might learn another language with less strain to the mind.
Page 152 - KP two squares 2 K. Kt. to B. third 3 KB to QB fourth 4 QBP one square , 5 QP two squares 6 P.
Page 335 - HABBTTITZ.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. P. to Q. fourth 3. P. takes P. 4.
Page 1 - W. \VAVTE.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. P. to KB fourth 3. K. Kt. to B. third 4. P. to KR fourth 5.
Page 156 - Yes ! where is he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table, earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.