Chess Player's Chronicle, Volume 6R. Hastings, 1846 |
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amateurs B.'s third Bishop Capt Castles 11 Castles 9 Chess Club Chess Player's Chronicle Chess players eighth check fifth 11 four moves fourth 16 fourth 22 fourth check fourth square K. B. second K. B. seventh K. B. square K. B. third K. B. to Q K. B. to Q. B. K. P. takes K. P. two squares K.'s second King Knight match mate in four Notes to Game Palaméde Pawn one square Pawn two squares Pawns at K. R. piece Q. B. fourth Q. B. P. takes Q. B. to K Q. R. to Q Remove Black's Rook second 19 second 23 second Black second square seventh check SPRECKLEY square 18 square 23 square Black square check St Amant Staunton takes K. B. P. takes Kt takes Q takes Q. P. third 11 third 9 third Black third check third square third White Umpleby White playing wins
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Page 157 - An extremely light brass spring, which is screwed to a block of ivory or hard wood, and which has no connexion with the metallic parts of the clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the wire of the electromagnet ; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electro-magnet. A constant voltaic battery, consisting of a few elements...
Page 156 - We can only further briefly allude to two of the most important modifications of his invention which Professor Wheatstone has made for specific purposes : — 1. By substituting for the paper disc on the circumference of which the letters are printed a thin disc of brass cut from the circumference to the centre, so as to form four-and-twenty springs, on the extremities of which types or punches are placed, and adding a mechanism, the detent of which, acted on...
Page 224 - He was a man of genius, as well as a good soldier; and, having contemplated some time on the subject, he invented the game of chess, as well for an amusement to his men, in their vacant hours, as to inflame their military ardour, — the game being wholly founded on the principles...
Page 157 - In the electro-magnetic clock, which was exhibited in action in the Apartments of the Society, all the parts employed in a clock for maintaining and regulating the power are entirely dispensed with. It consists simply of a face with its second, minute and hour hands, and of a train of wheels which communicate motion from the arbor of the...
Page 224 - ... his men in their vacant hours, as to inflame their military ardour, the game being wholly founded on the principles of war. The stratagem succeeded to his wish. The soldiery were delighted with the game, and forgot, in their daily contests for victory, the inconveniences of their post.
Page 223 - This advantage has the name of Nripakrishta, or recovered by the King ; and the Naukakrishta seems to be analogous to it, but confined to the case of ships. Fourthly, " If a Pawn can march to any square on the opposite extremity of the board, except that of the King or that of the Ship, he assumes whatever power belonged to that square ; and this promotion is called Shatpada, or the six strides.
Page 157 - ... the messages with scarcely a minute's instruction. The electro-magnetic clock of Professor Wheatstone is another of those singular inventions, and one which, though it may be less useful, is certainly not less ingenious and surprising than his telegraph. The object of the inventor was to enable a single clock to indicate exactly the same time in as many different places, distant from each other, as may be required. A standard clock in an observatory, for example, would thus keep in order another...
Page 191 - It will appear, however, that the Chinese pieces far exceed the proportion of ours, which occasions the whole force of the contest to fall on them, and thereby precludes the beauty and variety of our game, when reduced to a struggle between the pawns, who are capable of the highest promotion, and often change the fortune of the day. The posts of the Ping arc marked in front.
Page 190 - Brahmins were neither mistaken touching the board, which has a river in the middle to divide the contending parties, nor in the powers of the king, who is entrenched in a fort, and moves only in that space in every direction ; but, what I did not...
Page 254 - My enquiries teach me that in this instance also a name has been formed from a quality ; and that in modern Persian rookh means facing or bearing in a direct line ; and applied to the rookh at chess, and its moves, is very appropriate ; at the same time I have...