Author: Athenæum Committee

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9781330026892

Excerpt from The Games of the Match at Chess: Played by the Chess Players of the Athenæum, Philadelphia, and the New-York Chess-Club, Between the Years 1856 and 1857, With Variations and Remarks In the month of February, 1856, a proposal wag made, by the New York Cheis Club, to the amateurs who frequent the Athenæum in Philadelphia, to play a Match at Chess by correspondence. The proposal was accepted; and it was agreed, that the Match should consist of two games, to be played simultaneously, each party to have the White pieces and the move in one of the games. The Athenæum players fixed, by general consent, upon a committee for conducting the games, on their part. It was composed of the following gentlemen: Mr. P. Randolph, Mr. H. P. Montgomery, Mr. W. G. Thomas, Mr. L. Elkin, Mr. A. E. Dougherty, and Dr. S. Lewis. The first moves in the two games were exchanged on the 22nd of February. The second game, a Scotch Gambit, in which the Athenæum players had the White and the move, was the first concluded: it was resigned by the New York Committee on the 12th of January, 1867, at the thirty-second move. The First, or New York, Game, a Giuoco Siciliano, was continued until the 9th of February, when upon the receipt of the forty-first move of White Black announced checkmate in six moves. The second of these games will, perhaps, be regarded with some interest by Chess-students, as having again subjected to the severe test of correspondence-play the Italian defence of the Scotch Gambit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.