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adopted advance advantage amateurs appears attack authorities believe better Bishop Black Castles Chess World committee Congress considerable continued defence draw drawn eighth English examination fifth check fifth Kt five four fourth check fourth Kt fourth Q Gambit give interesting K. B. fifth K. B. seventh K. B. square K. B. third King King's Knight look Managing match mate in three meeting Messrs never notes obtained once opening Pawn piece play and mate players position practice preferred present prize Problem Q. B. fourth Q. B. second Queen remarkable reply result Rook rule second Kt second Q seventh check side sixth square check square Kt square Q taken takes K. B. P. takes Kt takes P.
B. takes Q takes Q. P. third 11 third check third Kt third Q three moves Tournament variation White to play wins
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Page 4 - Chess Congress of 1862. A Collection of the Games played, and a Selection of the Problems sent in for the Competition. Edited by J. LOWENTHAL, Manager. "With an Account of the Proceedings, and a Memoir of the British Chess Association, by JW MEDLEY, Hon. Sec. 7*.
Page 161 - KB third 3. B. to QB fourth 4. P. to Q. Kt. fourth 5. P. to QB third 6. P. to Q. fourth 7. Castles 8. P. take
Page 66 - THREE children sliding on the ice, Upon a summer's day, As it fell out, they all fell in, The rest they ran away. Now had these children been at home, Or sliding on dry ground, Ten thousand pounds to one penny, They had not all been drown'd. You parents all that children have, And you that have got none ; If you would have them safe abroad, Pray keep them safe at home.
Page 220 - When a pawn has reached the eighth square, the player has the option of selecting a piece, whether such piece has been previously lost or not, whose name and powers it shall then assume, or of deciding that it shall remain a Pawn.
Page 14 - Bristol.) 1. P. to K. fourth 2. P. to KB fourth 3. Kt. to KB third 4. P. to KR fourth 5. Kt. to K. Kt. fifth 6. Kt. takes KBP 7.
Page 91 - ... must be decided by lot. In any series of games between the same players, at one sitting, each shall have the first move alternately in all the games, whether won or drawn. In an annulled game, the player who had the first move in that game shall move first in the next.
Page 70 - Chess. — ONE HUNDRED CHESS GAMES, played between Mr. J. F. Emmett and Mr. Vivian Fenton, during the Winter of 1864. Small 4to. sewed, pp. 60. Boulogne and London. 1865. 2s. Chess-Strategy. — A Collection of the Most Beautiful Chess Problems, composed by " JB, of Bridport," and contributed by him to the chief Chess Periodicals during the last fifteen years.
Page 91 - If a player make the first move in a game when it is not his turn to do so, the game must be annulled if the error has been noticed before both players have completed the fourth move.
Page 91 - 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 34 - P. to Q. Kt. fourth 5. P. to QB third 6. P. to Q. fourth 7. Castles 8. P. takes P. 9. Kt. to QB third 10. Q. to QE fourth 11.