Chess Player's Chronicle, Volume 19

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R. Hastings., 1861 - Chess
 

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Page 244 - FALKBEEB.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. P. to KB fourth 3. Kt. to KB third 4. P. to KR fourth 6.
Page 184 - SCHULL.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. K. Kt. to B. third 3. B. to QB fourth 4. P. to Q. Kt. fourth 5.
Page 100 - If a player make a false move — that is, either by playing a man of his own to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, or by capturing an adverse man by a move which cannot be legally made — he must, at the choice of his opponent, and according to the case, either move his own man legally, capture the man legally, or move any other man legally movable.
Page 153 - 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 261 - Charlick.) 1. P. to K. fourth , 2. P. to KB fourth 3. Kt. to KB third 4. B. to QB fourth 5.
Page 261 - К. fourth 2. P. takes P. 3. P. to K. Kt. fourth 4. P. to K. Kt. fifth 5. Kt. to К. В. third White, (Herr 1. P. to K. fourth 2.
Page 116 - Black. (COVENTRY ) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. P. takes P. 3. P. to K. Kt. fourth 4. P. to Kt.
Page 201 - KB third 3. B. to QB fourth 4. P. to Q. Kt. fourth 5. P. to QB third 6.
Page 71 - One thing is certain, that these Chessmen, from their size and workmanship, must have been designed for no ignoble personage, and from the decided style of Greek art visible in the figures, it is a more natural inference to suppose them presented to Charlemagne by a sovereign of the Lower Empire, than that they came to him as an offering from the Moorish princess of Spain, or even from the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid, whose costly gifts to the Emperor of the West, are detailed so minutely by the German...

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