British Miscellany, and Chess Player's Chronicle, Volume 16 |
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attack Bishop Brien Castles 9 Chaturanga Chess Club defence discovering check eighth check exchange fifth 14 fifth 27 fifth 9 fourth 16 fourth 20 Gambit give Herr Falkreer Herr Horwitz Herr Lowenthal Janssens K. B. eighth K. B. fifth K. B. Pawn K. B. second K. B. seventh check K. B. sixth check K. B. square K. B. third K. B. to Q K. B. to Q. B. K. R. fifth check Kenny King King's side Knight Leamington match Messrs Notes odds opening Pawn and move pieces position Q. B. fourth Q. B. takes Q. R. to Q Queen Queen's side Rook Sassa second 15 second 20 second 9 second check second player Shatranj square 17 square 21 square check Staunton takes K. B. P. check takes K. P. takes Kt takes Q third 13 third 9 third check Tournament variations White to play wins Zytogorski
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Page 389 - Present shall fulfil them, What he promised, she shall do. She inherits all his treasures, She is heir to all his fame; And the light that lightens round her Is the lustre of his name. She is wise with all his wisdom, Living on his grave she stands; On her brow she bears his laurels, And his harvest in her hands.
Page 389 - Honour her, for she is ours ! See the shadows of his heroes Girt around her cloudy throne ; Every day the ranks are strengthened By great hearts to him unknown ; Noble things the great Past promised, Holy dreams, both strange and new ; But the Present shall fulfil them, What he promised, she shall do.
Page 389 - ... his treasures, She is heir to all his fame, And the light that lightens round her Is the lustre of his name ; She is wise with all his wisdom, Living on his grave she stands, On her brow she bears his laurels, And his harvest in her hands. Coward, can she reign and conquer If we thus her glory dim ? Let us fight for her as nobly As our fathers fought for him. God, who crowns the dying ages, Bids her rule, and us obey, — Bids us cast our lives before her, Bids us serve the great To-day.
Page 44 - Shatranj, which found its way presently into the modern Persian, and at length into the dialects of India, where the true derivation of the name is known only to the learned.
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Page 43 - Italian critics, by the first •intention ; yet of this simple game, so exquisitely contrived, and so certainly invented in India, I cannot find any account in the classical writings of the Brahmans.
Page 167 - B.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. Kt. to KB third 3. B. to Q. Kt. fifth 4.
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