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 Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c, to which are Added, Caissa, a Poem, Bände 1-2D. Ogilvy and son, 1806 |
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... lose the game ; because the King , being inviolable , as soon as it is placed in that situation , the game is finished , although all the other Pieces and Pawns remain on the board . The game may be lost in quite an opposite manner ...
... lose the game ; because the King , being inviolable , as soon as it is placed in that situation , the game is finished , although all the other Pieces and Pawns remain on the board . The game may be lost in quite an opposite manner ...
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... game , unless well supported , may be reckoned as lost . 10. A Pawn pushed forward within your adversary's lines , if well supported , will often gain a piece ; but a Pawn separated from your other Pawns is seldom of any value . 11. Two ...
... game , unless well supported , may be reckoned as lost . 10. A Pawn pushed forward within your adversary's lines , if well supported , will often gain a piece ; but a Pawn separated from your other Pawns is seldom of any value . 11. Two ...
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... game is lost . See the Second Varia- tion . BLACK . WHITE . 1 P 13 to 29 1 P 53 to 37 2 B 6 to 27 2 B 62 to 35 ( a ) 3 Q4 to 40 ( a ) 3 Q 60 to 53 4 K 7 to 22 ( b ) 4 P 52 to 44 ( c ) 5 K 22 to 39 ( c ) 5 P 55 to 47 6 6 Q 53 to 54 * 7 B ...
... game is lost . See the Second Varia- tion . BLACK . WHITE . 1 P 13 to 29 1 P 53 to 37 2 B 6 to 27 2 B 62 to 35 ( a ) 3 Q4 to 40 ( a ) 3 Q 60 to 53 4 K 7 to 22 ( b ) 4 P 52 to 44 ( c ) 5 K 22 to 39 ( c ) 5 P 55 to 47 6 6 Q 53 to 54 * 7 B ...
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... lost , which may be cal - with your Rook 57 . culated as follows : ( d ) Your three last moves are preparatory to attacking your adversary's Knight 64 Black has lost . White has lost . Queen , 23 Queen , 233 Bishop , 9 Rook , 15 Knight ...
... lost , which may be cal - with your Rook 57 . culated as follows : ( d ) Your three last moves are preparatory to attacking your adversary's Knight 64 Black has lost . White has lost . Queen , 23 Queen , 233 Bishop , 9 Rook , 15 Knight ...
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... game , by pushing forward your Pawn 34 to Queen ; but it is continued for the sake of im- provement . 55 to 46 3946 to 39 40 B 29 to 56 4139 to 46 42 K 45 to 55 ( i ) 43 The game is lost . ( g ) If you had moved to 54 , you would have ...
... game , by pushing forward your Pawn 34 to Queen ; but it is continued for the sake of im- provement . 55 to 46 3946 to 39 40 B 29 to 56 4139 to 46 42 K 45 to 55 ( i ) 43 The game is lost . ( g ) If you had moved to 54 , you would have ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
15 Castles advantage adver adversary's Pawn attack your adversary's Bishop 27 Bishop 44 Bishop 59 Bishops 13 Black King Black moves Castles to 63 Continued in Game drawn game forward his Pawn forward your Pawn Game 15 Game 22 Game 37 Game 44 Game 61 game is lost give check given you check giving Check-mate King 14 King 21 King 63 Knight 22 Knight 34 Knight 46 last move lost the game Method of giving move your Queen moved your Pawn moving his Knight moving his Pawn Pawn 14 Pawn 37 Pawns 43 Pawns 9 Philidor's First Regular Philidor's Fourth Piece or Pawn player pushed forward Queen 29 Queen 48 Queen's Gambit Rook 12 Rook 57 Rook 60 Rooks 9 Scholar's Mate Second Gambit Second of Philidor's squares taken his Knight taken his Pawn taken your Pawn Third of Philidor's White King White Pawn win the game
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 101 - 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 101 - 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 101 - 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 102 - ... 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. And, lastly, we learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs,...
Seite 89 - He once imprison'd, all the conflict ends. The queens exulting near their consorts stand; Each bears a deadly falchion in her hand; Now here, now there, they bound with furious pride, And thin the trembling ranks from side to side; Swift as Camilla flying o'er the main, Or lightly skimming o'er the dewy plain : Fierce as they seem, some bold Plebeian spear May pierce their shield, or stop their full career.
Seite 101 - 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 102 - ... and that of persevering in the search of resources. The game is so full of events, there is such a variety of turns in it, the...
Seite 99 - Chief both armies gaze, And both the Kings are fix'd with deep amaze. The sword which arm'd the snow-white Maid before, He now assumes, and hurls the spear no more ; Then springs, indignant, on the dark-rob'd band, And Knights and Archers feel his deadly hand. Now flies the Monarch of the sable shield, His legions vanquish'd, o'er the lonely field : So when the morn, by rosy coursers drawn...
Seite 114 - ... to Stop at a farm-house in the way. The master of the house was a clergyman, who, to a poor curacy, added the care of a few scholars in the neighbourhood, which, in all, might make his living about eighty pounds a year : this was all he had to maintain a wife and sir children.
Seite 93 - His temple hangs below the azure skies ; " Seest thou yon argent cloud? 'Tis there it lies." This said, she sunk beneath the liquid plain, And sought the mansion of her blue-hair'd train* Meantime the god, elate with heart-felt joy...