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And therewithal Sir Tristram drew out his sword and said: Sir Kehydius, keep thee, and then La Beale Isoud swooned to the earth. And when Sir Kehydius saw Sir Tristram come upon him he saw none other boot, but leapt out at a bay-window even over the head where sat King Mark playing at the chess.
In a way it is like a cold bath on a winter's morning, and you glow all day. In a way it is like football, as the nimble aggravation dances to and fro. In a way it is like chess. Indeed, all games of skill are watered quarrels, quarrel and soda, come to see them in a proper light. And without quarrelling you have not fully appreciated your fellow-man.
"Yes, that's what I'll have to do if the salvage attempt fails. But I'm sure we'll succeed." Captain Britten had been given a room at the Swift home. When the boys got there they found their guest and Tom's father deep in a game of chess. "Well, son," laughed Mr. Swift, "I've met my match at last. John Britten has beaten me three straight games! But don't tell Damon about it!"
On our return from the bank, after a few more games of chess, we had an early dinner and retired to a much needed rest, in our bedroom adjoining the celebrated sitting-room, but I couldn't get the case out of my head, and inquired: "Say, Holmes, old boy, how was it you didn't grab Launcelot first instead of last, when you got all the evidence at once?"
How completely these hopes were disappointed the following narrative will show; nor should we be surprised at this, when we recollect how entirely superficial were all poor Omai's accomplishments. He appears to have learned to play very well at chess; but that seems to have been the only science in which he attained anything like proficiency.
He destroyed pity in his soul, and fed his dogs with living men, or spent his brains upon the invention of new tortures. From the game of politics again he won a feverish pleasure, playing for states and cities as a man plays chess, and endeavoring to extract the utmost excitement from the varying turns of skill and chance.
King John, who fought at Creçy, began a small collection: he had the story of the Crusades, a tract on the game of chess, and a book containing a French version of Livy, which seems to have belonged afterwards to Duke Humphrey, and to have found its way later into the Abbey of St. Geneviève. His son Charles le Sage was the owner of about 900 volumes, which he kept in his castle at the Louvre.
"Black can push the pawn at KB7 and make it, not a queen, but a knight, giving check to your king and no mate for you next move." "Yes, that's so," agreed Dunn. "I hadn't thought of that." "Unexpected, eh? Making the pawn a knight?" smiled Deede Dawson. "But in chess, and in life, it's the unexpected you have to look out for." "That's quite an aphorism," said Dunn. "It's true, too."
The usual method is to meet at the home of one of the members, rotating each week so that each member has her turn at being hostess. There is something romantic, something strangely fanciful in the old game of chess. Its origin is forgotten in a dim past a past around which is woven historical tales of kings and queens, interesting anecdotes of ancient sports and pleasures.
Lord Marney, who was fond of chess, turned out Captain Grouse, and very gallantly proposed to finish his game with Miss Poinsett, which Miss Poinsett, who understood Lord Marney as well as he understood chess, took care speedily to lose, so that his lordship might encounter a champion worthy of him.
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