An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions ; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &cH. C. Carey & I. Lea, and Abraham Small, 1824 - 267 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
11 King 11 Knight 11 Pawn 12 Bishop 13 Queen 16 Rook 23 King 23 Rook 37 2 Bishop 38 3 Knight 9 Bishop 9 King 9 Knight 9 Pawn 9 Queen adver adversary adversary's attack Bishop 13 Bishop 27 Bishop 35 Bishop 44 Bishop 59 Bishop 62 Bishop's Pawn Black King Black moves Black Pawn castles to 63 Chess drawn game Gambit Game 15 game is lost giving Check-mate Introductory Game King 14 King 37 King 63 King 9 King castles King's Knight 22 Knight 37 Knight 46 Knight 58 Knight 63 Mate moved your Pawn moving his Pawn Pawn 12 Pawn 29 Pawn 37 Philidor's Pieces or Pawns play player prevent pushed forward Queen 28 Queen 32 Queen 45 Queen 53 Queen 60 Regular Party Rook 15 Rook 57 Rook 64 situation square taken his Pawn White King White Pawn
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 227 - Caution, not to make our moves too hastily. This habit is best acquired by observing strictly the laws of the game ; such as, " If you touch a piece, you must move it somewhere ; if you set it down, you must let it stand...
Seite 17 - And whenever you have gained a pawn, or other advantage, and are not in danger of losing the move thereby, make as frequent exchanges as you can.
Seite 228 - ... and it is therefore best that these rules should be observed ; as the game thereby becomes more the image of human life, and particularly of war ; in which, if you have incautiously put yourself into a bad and dangerous position, you cannot obtain your enemy's leave to withdraw your troops, and place them more securely, but you must abide all the consequences of your rashness.
Seite 227 - If I move this piece, what will be the advantage of my new situation? What use can my adversary make of it to annoy me? What other moves can I make to support it and to defend myself from his attacks?
Seite 220 - Behold four archers, (e) eager to advance, Send the light reed, and rush with sidelong glance ; Through angles ever they assault the foes, True to the colour which at first they chose.
Seite 217 - Thou, joy of all below, and all above, , Mild Venus, queen of laughter, queen of love : Leave thy bright island", where on many a rose And many a pink thy blooming train repose ; Assist me, goddess ! since a lovely pair Command my song, like thee divinely fair.
Seite 235 - ... shall be forced to hide their heads. They shall be forced to a disgraceful abandonment of their present measures and principles, which they avow, but cannot defend; measures which they presume to attempt, but cannot hope to effectuate.
Seite 227 - The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.
Seite 236 - Chess, namely, with four persons at the same time, two against two ; and for this purpose, the board is larger than usual, contains more men, and is provided with a greater number of squares. I was informed that this method was more difficult, but far more agreeable than the common game.
Seite 219 - They gravely move, and shun the dangerous foe ; If e'er they call, the watchful subjects spring, And die with rapture if they save their king; On him the glory of the day depends, He once imprison'd, all the conflict ends.