Mr. Hoyle's Game of Chess: Including His Chess Lectures, with Selections from Other AmateursR. Baldwin, 1808 - 92 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adversary adversary's king BACK GAME bishop gives check bishop's fourth square bishop's second square bishop's third square Chess king castles king takes king's bishop's fourth king's bishop's pawn king's bishop's third king's fifth king's fourth square king's knight's fourth king's knight's pawn king's rook's pawn king's second square king's square king's third square knight's fourth square knight's second square knight's third square pawn one move pawn one step pawn takes pawn two moves pawn two steps pawns 15 pieces play queen gives check queen takes queen's bishop's fourth queen's bishop's pawn queen's bishop's third queen's fourth square Queen's Gambit queen's knight's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook's pawn queen's second square queen's third square retakes the knight retakes the pawn rook gives check rook's fourth square rook's third square stale-mate takes the bishop takes the knight takes the pawn takes the queen takes the rook white king's knight's wins the game
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xi - 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.
Seite xi - 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 xii - If you touch a piece, you must move' it somewhere ; if you set it down, you must let it stand...
Seite xii - Caution, not to make our moves too hastily. This habit is best acquired by observing strictly the laws of the game ; such as,
Seite 11 - ... the adversary a piece ; but one separated from the others is seldom of any value. 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 xii - ... 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. And, lastly, we learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favourable change, and that of persevering in the search of...
Seite xi - 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 8 - MOVE your pawns before your pieces, and afterwards bring out the pieces to support them ; therefore the king's, queen's, and bishop's pawns should be the first played, in order to open the game well. 2. Do not, therefore, play out any of your pieces early in the game, because you thereby lose moves, in case your adversary can, by playing a pawn, make them retire, and also opens his game at the same time; especially avoid playing your queen out, till your game is tolerably well opened.
Seite 10 - Let not your adversary's knight (particularly if duly guarded) come to check your king and queen, or your king and rook, or your queen and rook, or your two rooks at the same time : for in the...
Seite xiii - ... by which the loss may be recovered, will learn not to be too much discouraged by the present success of his adversary, nor to despair of final good fortune, upon every little check he receives in the pursuit of it.