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amateurs better game Bishop's third Bourdonnais checkmate Chess-player eighth check fifth 11 fifth check fourth 17 fourth check Gambit Pawn K. B. second K. B. square K. B. to Q K. B. to Q. B. K. B.'s seventh K. B.'s sixth K. B.'s third K. R. fifth K.'s second King King's Bishop's Pawn King's Knight's King's Pawn Knight Knight's Pawn Kt.'s fourth Kt.'s seventh Kt.'s sixth Kt.'s square Kt.'s third la Bourdonnais Leonardo M'Donnell Notes to Game Paolo Boi Pawns at K. R.'s Q. B. fourth Q. B. P. takes Q. B. takes Q. B. to K Q. R. to Q Q.'s fifth Queen's Knight's Queen's Pawn Rook second 15 second 9 second player seventh check square 19 square 20 St—n takes K. B. P. check takes K. P. takes Kt takes Q third 13 third 20 third 9 third check third Kt third White White to play
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Page 369 - O, weep for Adonais ! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head ! And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow! Say: 'With me Died Adonais ; till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity...
Page 217 - David expresses the same sentiment, and teaches us that as it was in the beginning, so it is now and ever shall be, and that there is verily no new thing under the sun.
Page 369 - And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.
Page 215 - Come, Ossian, come away," he says. Fingal has received his fame. We passed away, like flames that had shone for a season. Our departure was in renown. Though the plains of our battles are dark and silent ; our fame is in the four grey stones. The voice of Ossian has been heard. The harp has been strung in Selma. " Come, Ossian, come away," he says, " come, fly with thy fathers on clouds.
Page 206 - KP tmo squares. 2. K. Kt. to B. third. 2. Q. Kt. to B. third. 3. KB to QB fourth. 3.
Page 79 - M.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. P. to KB fourth 3. K. Kt. to B. third 4. KB to QB fourth 5. Kt to K. fifth 6. K. to B. square 7.
Page 287 - 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 319 - K's Kt. to B's 3rd. 2. K's Kt. to B's 3rd. 3. P. to Q's 4th. 3. Kt. takes K's P. 4. K's B. to Q's 3rd. 4. P. to Q's 4th. 5. Kt. takes K's P. 5. K's B. to Q's 3rd. 6. Castles. 6. Castles. 7. P. to Q. B's 4th. 7. P. to K. B's 4th. 8. P. to K.
Page 287 - KP two squares 2 Q. Kt. to B. third 3 KB to QB fourth 4 K. Kt. to B. third 5 P takes P.