afterwards win the Bishop, and if I mistake not, this game at least is mine." Ferdinand bit his lip, and, unaccustomed to discomfiture, he sat moody, under what seemed to all inevitable defeat. At this moment I examined the position more attentively, and suddenly it flashed upon me that Ferdinand's game was not as desperate as it appeared to the bystanders and even to himself. In a suppressed tone I whispered to Queen Isabella: "If his Highness play correctly, he wins, and Fonseca cannot outlive four moves." Isabella drew nearer the King, and leaning on his shoulder she withheld his arm, when after long meditation he was about to raise his hand to play his Rook to Q. R. 5th sq. "Do you not win, my Lord ?" said she. "Win?" repeated Ferdinand, and the uplifted hand returning to its former position, the King resumed his meditations but the threatened mate seemed still to veil the position to his reason . ing faculties. At this juncture his eye caught mine, and most probably rightly reading my expression, he again began to calculate then suddenly a smile played over his lips. -"Fonseca, my friend, Estás malo.'"* “Think you, my Lord," interrupted the Queen," there can be 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. ? * Anglicè—“ 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 |