Chess Player's Chronicle, Volume 4R. Hastings, 1843 - Chess |
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advantage amateurs appears attack B.'s third becoming Black Bourdonnais Castles Chess Club Chess-player continued drawn eighth check equal fifth check five force fourth check given giving interesting K. B. second K. B. third K. B. to Q K. B. to Q. B. K. R. fifth K.’s second King King's Bishop's Pawn King's Pawn Knight Kt.'s square Kt.’s fifth Kt.’s third Leonardo London lost match mate move Notes to Game Number opening Paolo parties pieces play position present PROBLEM Q. B. fourth Q. B. square Q. B. takes Q. B. to K Q. R. to Q Q.'s fourth Q.'s second Q.'s square Queen Remove RESIGNED Rook second 12 second 9 second player seventh check side sixth square 14 ST-N taken takes K. P. takes Kt takes Q third 12 third 9 Variation White
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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.