A Popular Introduction to the Study and Practice of Chess: Forming a Compendium of the Science of the Game |
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Page 28 - ... more) when it is your own turn. VII. If, whilst you are playing, your adversary will talk about the state of the game, it is very provoking, but you cannot help it, and the pieces will give you ample revenge, if you can avail yourself of their power. VIII. If the by-standers talk, it is still more annoying; they always claim the merit of having foreseen every good move which is made, and they sometimes express great surprise at your not making a particular move ; which, if you had made it, would...
Page 46 - ... imputation on his good sense to be considered a very bad player ; and this is the universal feeling, although it is well known that men of the highest attainments have studied chess without success ; and that the most celebrated players have not always been men of distinguished talents. ******** " He who, after much practice with fine players, remains long in the middle class, becomes at last convinced by ' time and ill-success, that there is a point which he cannot pass.
Page 28 - WIN as often as .you can, but never make any display of insulting joy on the occasion. When you cannot win — Lose (though you may not like it) with good temper. II. • If your adversary, after you have won a game, wishes to prove that you have done so in consequence of some fault of his rather than by your own good play, you need not enter into much argument on the subject...
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Page 28 - ... depends upon the skill of the parties with whom he has hitherto contended ; and provincial Philidors seldom prove to be very good players, when their strength is fairly measured at the London Chess Club, particularly such of them as come there with the reputation of having never been beaten. XXIX. An elderly gentleman, lately returned from India, is apt to suppose that his skill has been much impaired by the change of climate, or some other cause, when he finds, to his great surprise, that his...