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, Volumes 1-2D. Ogilvy and son, 1806 - Chess |
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13 Castles advantage adver adversary afterwards attack your adversary's better Bishop 27 Bishop 35 Bishop's Pawn Black King Black moves bring Castles to 63 centre Chess Continued in Game cover drawn game enable endeavour equal Example exchange Fifth force forward his Pawn forward your Pawn gain Gambit Game 15 Game 37 game is lost give check giving Check-mate Introductory Game King 14 King 63 Knight 22 Knight 46 last move lose lost the game Mate moved your Pawn moving his Pawn opening Pawn 14 Pawn 37 Pawns 9 Philidor's Fourth Pieces play player prevent pushing forward Queen 48 Regular Party Rook Rook 62 rule Second of Philidor's side situation square Stamma's tacked taken his Pawn Third of Philidor's tion White King White Pawn win the game
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Page 89 - 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...
Page 89 - 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.
Page 89 - 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?
Page 90 - ... 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,...
Page 77 - 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.
Page 89 - 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.
Page 90 - ... 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...
Page 87 - 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...
Page 102 - ... 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.
Page 81 - 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...
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| Title | 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, Volumes 1-2 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 |
| Contributor | François Danican Philidor |
| Publisher | D. Ogilvy and son, 1806 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2008 |
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