The Philosophy of ChessWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 112 Seiten |
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admits adopted advantage appear attainment attention balance Bishop Bishop's Gambit BISHOP'S OPENING capture character checkmate commencement conduct corresponding Counter Gambit counter-attack counteraction doubled pawn drawn game duty empiricism error exchange exercise experience fortification further Gambit Pawn Giuoco Piano governing principle importance involved K B's K R's 5th K's 2nd K's 5th King's Bishop's Kt takes Kt to B's Kt's 4th labour Law of Equality leading Lopez Kt's Game means ment natural antagonism observed opening move operations opportunity Pawn's Game position possession practice preparation for castling present proposition pursuit Q B's 3rd Q B's 4th Q Kt's Q R's Q to K R's Q to K's Q's 4th Q's B's Q's Kt Q's Pawn QB's Queen's Queen's Gambit recognise reference regard remarks reply to White's result sacrifice Scotch Gambit second player takes Kt territory tion true ultimate objects variations variety White's move
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Seite 64 - But there is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.
Seite i - Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. In these pursuits, therefore, the first speculators lie under great disadvantages, and, even when they fail, are entitled to praise.
Seite 33 - ... Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion ; safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train : it is the brightest emanation of the Gospel, it is the greatest attribute of God ; it is that centre round which human motives and passions turn : and justice, sitting on high, sees genius and power, and wealth and birth, revolving round her throne ; and teaches their paths and marks out their orbits, and warns with a loud voice, and rules with a strong arm, and carries...
Seite 33 - Gospel, it is the greatest attribute of God. It is that centre round which human motives and passions turn; and justice, sitting on high, sees genius, and power, and wealth, and birth revolving round her throne, and teaches their paths, and marks out their orbits, and warns with a loud voice, and rules with a strong hand, and carries order and discipline into a world which but for her would be a wild waste of passions.
Seite 36 - the player who makes the fewest mistakes will invariably win the game," though a truism, is worthy of a passing notice, as it involves two affirmations corresponding with the inferences just drawn, viz., that there is a right way and a wrong way, and that when the right way is taken, there is only a negative result.
Seite 15 - Warburton, himself a mathematician, says of mathematical studies that, ' in making a man conversant only with matters in which certainty is the result, they unfit, or at least do not prepare him, for sifting and balancing what alone he will have to do with in the world — probabilities ; there being no worse practical men than those who require more evidence than is necessary,' or, indeed, of a kind of which the subject is not capable.
Seite 15 - which so grave an authority as Bishop Warburton pronoun" ces an inherent defect in mathematics, as regards practical " mental training, is precisely reversed in chess, and consti" tutes, therefore, in our opinion, the principal value of the " game as a mental exercise and preparative for the contentions " of actual life. In the study of mathematics there is always " an inevitable result, to be reached by a train of fixed "and consecutive reasoning which admits of no deviation. •" In chess, on...
Seite 76 - BLACK. (Mr. P.) 1. P. to K's 4th. 2. P. takes P. 3. Q. to K. R's 5th (ch.) 4. P. to K. Kt's 4th. 5. B. to K. Kt's 2nd. 6. P. to Q's 3rd. 7. Kt. to Q. R's 3rd. 8. Q. to K. R's 3rd. 9. P. to Q.
Seite 17 - It is true, as we have already noticed, that chess in its " nature admits of the same determinate certainty as " mathematics ; but as it is also true that absolute perfection " of play is possible only by the exercise of a degree of " prescience, and a depth of...
Seite 76 - K's 4th. 2. P to K B's 4th. 3. B to Q B's 4th. 4. E to B sq. 6. Kt to Q B's 3rd. 6. P to Q's 4th. 7. P to K's 5th. 8. K's Kt to B's 3rd. 9. P to K E's 4th. 10. Q's Kt to Q's 5th. 11. K to Kt's sq. 12. K's Kt takes K's P. 13. Q's Kt to Q Kfs 6th. 14. Kt takes P (ch). 15. Kt takes B.