THE CHESS PLAYER'S CHRONICLE.
Who while she kept her snowie swannes
about the riuers wilde,
He spyde, and lou'd and lay with her,
and got the maid with childe,
And to requite such curtesie
shewd by so kinde a Dame:
To driue away the time withall,
he taught her first this game.
And for the losse of libertie,
and maidenhood withall:
Of her name Scacchis Scacchia
this play at Chesse did call.
And that this God in memorie
the Lasse might longer haue,
A Boxen Chesse boord gilded round
vnto the gerle he gaue,
And taught her cunning in the same,
to play the game by Arte.
Which after to the country swaines
this Lady did impart :
Who taught their late posteritie
to vse this kind of play,
A game of great antiquitie
TO THE READER, I
Thus haue you here, as I do gesse,
The order of the game at Chesse:
With all the precepts lesse or more,
As it was vsde in yeeres of yore:
Which game the Gods did first inuent,
Το passe the time in merriment :
And that we mortall men on earth
Might imitate their heauenly mirth,
And driue all sorrowes from the hart,
Which now and then come ouerthwart,
I thought it good to set downe plaine
This Game, which Arcas did ordaine
To be a solace to the Gods,
Whenas their hearts were farre at ods.
Wherein if you do take delight,
And vse the same by day or night,
To driue away your sorrowes past:
I shall be pleased at the last,
Requesting you with all my hart,
[To take the same on the] good part;
[Of your louing] friend
CHESS VARIETIES, INTEL-
LIGENCE, &c. &c.
Anniversary of the Dumfries Chess
Club, 122
Annual Dinner of the Liverpool
Chess Club, 57
of the Yorkshire Chess Asso-
ciation, 177
Brighton Chess Club, Rules of, 277
Chess in America. 94
Chess in India, 51
Chess in Persia, 211, 278
Chess Challenge to the St. George's
Club, 311
Death of General Gumgret, 64
Mr C. Forth, 281
Mr Stephens, 230
Evans's Gambit, Variations on, by
Ghulan Kassim, 47
"Fasciculus of one dozen Chess
Wrinkles," by Capt. Kennedy,
34
More Wrinkles by the same
Author, 109
Game of Chess by the Electric Te-
legraph, 154
History of the Match between Mr
Staunton and Mr St. Amant, by
Mr Bryan, 145, 182
Leicester Chess Ball, 41
Match of Chess, Proposed, between
Mr Stanley and Mr Rousseau, of
America, 345
between Mr Stanley and the
best player in Liverpool, 345
Newcastle Chess Club, Rules of,
342
Old Poem on Chess, 281, 313, 349,
391
On the Burmha Game of Chess,
188, 218, 253
On the Odds of the Pawn and two
moves, 2
Original Letter on the "K. P. one"
Opening, by the late Mr Mac
Donnell, 250
Original Article by Capt. Kennedy
"How Mr Umpleby played,
&c." 11
Mr Staunton and Mr St. Amant, 90
The "Traité des Amateurs," 17, 76,
114, 169, 206.
Second Chess Match between Eng-
land and France, 62
Variation of the K. Bishop's Gam-
bit, by Mr Schulten, of New
York, 358
MM. Kieseritzki and Desloges
against MM. Dumoncheau
and Chamourllet, 29
M. Kieseritzki and Mr Erh-
man, 30
M. Kieseritzki and an Ama-
teur, 44, 380
M. Kieseritzki and M. Du-
moncheau, 45, 89, 107
M. Kieseritzki and M. Seguin,
88
M. Kieseritzki and M. Rous-
seau, 106
M. Kieseritzki and Mr Hen-
derson, 193
M. Kieseritzki and M. Des-
touches, 195
Mr Lewis and an Amateur, 66,
67, 69, 98, 99, 196, 197, 237
Mr M Donnell and an Ama-
teur, 130, 131
Mr Perigal and Mr Spreckley,
71, 72
Mr. Perigal and Mr Rousseau,
202, 203
Mr Perigal and an Amateur,
204, 306
Mr Perigal and Mr Mongre
dien,
Mr Perigal and M. Horwitz,
378
Mr W. P. -g and Mr O'Sul-
livan, 368, 371
M. St. Amant and Mr Worrell,
268
Mr Staunton and Mr Cockrane,
Mr Staunton and Mr Mongre-
dien, 102, 231
Mr Staunton and Mr Spreckley,
42, 43
Mr Stanton and Capt. Kenne-
dy, 132, 235
Mr Staunton and Mr B. G
104, 105
Mr Staunton and an Amateur,
73, 134, 136, 163, 199, 305,
377
Mr Staunton and Mr Bryan, of
Paris, 162
Mr Staunton and Le Comte
V-, of Paris, 302
Mr Staunton and the Hon.
H. T. (the marked Pawn
game) 137
Mr Staunton and Mr E. Wil-
liams, 374, 376
Mr Walker and Mr Tuckett,
70
Mr G. Wiel, (playing blindfold)
and an Amateur, 373
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