Chess Made Easy: New and Comprehensive Rules for Playing the Game of Chess; with Examples from Philidor, Cunningham, &c, &c. to which is Prefixed a Pleasing Account of Its Origin; Some Interesting Anecdotes of Several Exalted Personages, who Have Been Admirers of It; and the Morals of ChessJ. Harris & son, 1820 - 72 pagine |
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adversary's king amusement attack BACK GAME bishop gives check bishop's fourth square bishop's second square bishop's third square black bishop Brahmin covers the check fierge GAME OF CHESS king castles king takes king's bishop's fourth king's bishop's pawn king's fourth square king's knight's fourth king's knight's pawn king's rook's fourth king's rook's pawn king's second square king's square king's third square knight takes knight's fourth square knight's third square Kuthar lose the game pawn gives check pawn one move pawn retakes pawn takes pawn two moves pawn two steps playing at chess plays this pawn prince queen takes queen's bishop's pawn queen's fourth square queen's knight's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook's pawn queen's second square queen's third square rook's fourth square Sissa take the adversary's take your bishop takes the bishop takes the knight takes the pawn takes the queen takes the rook three pawns vizir win the game
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Pagina 18 - Circumspection, which surveys the whole chessboard, or scene of action, the relations of the several pieces and situations, the dangers they are respectively exposed to, the several possibilities of their aiding each other, the probabilities that the adversary may...
Pagina 18 - ... 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,...
Pagina 19 - 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 favorable change, 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 fortune of it is so subject to sudden vicissitudes, and one so frequently, after long...
Pagina 17 - 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?
Pagina 6 - ... him, — -one for the first, two for the second, four for the third, and so on, doubling always to the sixty-fourth. The...
Pagina 17 - 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 evil events that are in some degree the effects of prudence or the want of it.
Pagina 16 - Russians have also another method of playing the game of 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.
Pagina 19 - And whoever considers, what in chess he often sees instances of, that particular pieces of success are apt to produce presumption, and its consequent, inattention, 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. That we may, therefore, be induced more frequently to choose this beneficial amusement, in preference to others, which are...
Pagina 17 - ... 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.
Pagina 22 - If you have a mind to exercise or show your judgment, do it in playing your own game, when you have an opportunity, not in criticising, or meddling with, or counselling the play of others. Lastly, if the game is not to be played rigorously, according to the rules above mentioned, then moderate your desire of victory over your adversary, and be pleased with one over yourself.