The British Chess Magazine, Volumes 10-11Trubner & Company, 1890 - Chess |
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Common terms and phrases
advantage appears Association attack better Black Blackburne British Castles Chess Club City composer contest continuation course defence difficult draw drawn exchange four Gambit give given Gunsberg interesting K B sq Knight Kt sq Kt takes Kt tks Kt to K Kt to Kt Kt to Q B leading Leeds lined London looks lost Manchester masters match meeting Messrs move NOTES once opening Pawn piece PIERCE play players position preferable present prize problem Q Kt Q sq Q takes Q tks Q to K Q to Kt Q to Q Queen reply result Rook score seems side solution square Steinitz strong success takes Kt takes P ch takes Q Tchigorin third threatening tks Kt tks Q tournament tourney variation White mates wins
Popular passages
Page 171 - Every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto David,
Page 448 - a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny, with men for pieces, plays : Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the cupboard lays.
Page 518 - we have outlived the time of bloody feud, when a quarrel was carried down between two families from father to son, like a Spanish game at chess; and a murder or two committed in every generation, just to keep the matter from going to sleep.
Page 518 - great ocean of reading without compass or pilot; and unless when some one had the charity to play at chess with me, I was allowed to do nothing, save read from morning to night.
Page 410 - hour and three quarters. To those who understand Chess, this exertion of M. Philidor's abilities must appear one of the greatest of which the human memory is susceptible. He goes through it with astonishing accuracy, and often corrects mistakes in those who have the board before them.
Page 393 - dead: My heart is full of ruth and yearning pain At sight of thee, O King, that hast a crown Outlasting theirs, and tells of greatness fled Through cloud-hung nights of unabated rain And murmur of the dark majestic town.
Page 518 - cold calculating manoeuvres, which old gentlemen in wrought night - caps and furred gowns execute like so many games at chess, and displace a treasurer or lord commissioner as they would take a Rook or Pawn.
Page 169 - Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.
Page 393 - Haply thou may'st have pleased old Prester John Among his pastures, when full royally He sat in tent,—grave shepherds at his knee— While lamps of balsam winked and glimmered on. What dost thou here ? Thy masters
Page 473 - 1 P tO K 4 2 Kt to KB 3 3 B to B 4 4 P to Q Kt 4 5 P to QB 3 6 P to Q 4