ing faculties. At this juncture his eye caught mine, and most prob ably rightly reading my expression, he again began to calculate . . . then suddenly a smile played over his lips. be - 66 6 Fonseca, my friend, Estás malo.'"* "Think you, my Lord," interrupted the Queen, "there can wrong in granting this title to the Genoese?" "What think you of the matter, Latina?" said Ferdinand, half ironically, "do you still persist in your opinion?" "None can boast of infallibility,” rejoined Beatrix Galindez, and Pliny has said,' Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapet.'' "After all," added his Highness, "little harm can come from appointing him Admiral of the new seas to be navigated." Hardly had the royal sanction escaped the King's lips, when the Queen beckoning a page-" Isidro." said she, "to horse instantly -Cristóval Colon is on the road to Palos de Moguer, he cannot have journeyed much farther than the bridge of Pinos. . make all speed, overtake him, and tell him we create him Admiral of the Ocean-sea." And now, dear Doctor, may we not repeat what Antonio de Lebrixa has so often said to us, "The most trifling causes very frequently exercise a wonderful influence over the greatest events." If Cristóval Colon discover a new world, as indeed I trust he may, will it not come from the pushing of a Pawn at the proper time. ? * Anglice-" "Thou art sick." BOOK IV. STAUNTON'S ANALYSIS OF THE KING'S GAMBIT BOTH IN RUSSIA. THE KING'S GAMBIT. THE KING'S KNIGHT'S GAMBIT. THE CUNNINGHAM GAMBIT.THE SALVIO AND COCHRANE GAMBITS.THE MUZIO GAMBIT. -THE ALLGAIER GAMBIT. THE KING'S ROOK'S PAWN GAMBIT. THE KING'S BISHOP'S GAMBIT.—THE GAMBIT DECLINED. WE are now about to introduce the student to a favorite and brilliant style of play, altogether different from the specimens given in the previous lessons. The King's Gambit offers greater variety than is to be found in the other openings, and therefore requires greater knowledge and practice to conduct it with success: hence an experienced player, when he gives the odds of Q.'s Rook or Q.'s Knight to an inferior antagonist, often prefers this mode of play. The word Gambit is derived from an Italian phrase used in wrestling, and signifies a peculiar movement by which the adversary is tripped up. In Chess, the " peculiar movement" is, for the first player, early in the game, to sacrifice a Pawn for the sake of gaining an attack. The varieties of the King's Gambit are often known by the names of the players who invented, or first introduced them. Other varieties obtain their names from one of the early moves of the first player. The term Gambit Pawn is applied sometimes to the Pawn you sacrifice on the second move, but more commonly to the Pawn of your adversary which captures your Pawn. Thus, in the King's Gambit, when each party having pushed K. P. two sq., the first player moves K. B. P. two, and the second player takes it with K. P.; the latter is styled, while remaining on the board, the Gambit Pawn. Your design in sacrificing a Pawn at the second move, is to weaken the enemy's centre, by drawing his K. P. away from the middle of the board. Philidor was of opinion, that the advantages of position acquired in return for the Pawn, were fully remunerative, and that the legitimate result of the Gambit ought to be a drawn game. That eminent player, however, stands alone in this doctrine, the general opinion now being, that if the best moves are subsequently played on both sides, Black ought to win the game through the Pawn given. The Gambits are the most brilliant and animated of all the openings, full of hair-breadth 'scapes and perilous vicissitudes, but affording an infinitude of beautiful and daring combinations. We extract the following analyses with the accompanying games in actual play from Mr. Staunton's valuable work, "The Chess Player's Handbook, London, 1847.” STAUNTON'S ANALYSIS OF THE KING'S GAMBIT. K. P. two This admirable opening, in which is comprehended every variety of the game, beginning with 1. K. P. two' 2. K. B. P. two, gives birth to the most intricate and beautiful combinations of which the chess-men are susceptible, and their investigation will afford you an inexhaustible fund of entertainmeut and instruction. To render the examination of them as intelligible as our limited space will admit, it may be well to classify the ramifications of this gambit under different heads. For this purpose I propose to divide the variations into four separate sections. The first will contain the manifold débuts which spring from the King's Gambit Pro per, or King's Knight's Gambit, as it is sometimes called The second will treat which is generally known 1. K. P. two 3. 1. K. Kt. to B. 3d K P. two of the modification of this opening 2. K. B. P. two K. Kt. to B. 3d also an attack called the King's K. P. two The third will embrace the varied methods of attack and K. P. two defence in the favorite King's Bishop's Gambit, 1. KP two |