chess-room

Updated: April 30, 2025

"I was sitting with half-a-dozen friends in the chess-room at Very's, about eleven o'clock on the night of the twentieth of December, talking over some of the marvellous successes which had been won by Paul Morphy when in Paris, and the unenviable position in which Howard Staunton had placed himself by keeping out of the lists through evident fear of the New-Orleanian, when Adolph Von Berg came behind me and laid his hand on my shoulder.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862

Romayne and Stella passed through the card-room and the chess-room, turned into a corridor, and entered the conservatory. For the first time the place was a solitude. The air of a newly-invented dance, faintly audible through the open windows of the ballroom above, had proved an irresistible temptation. Those who knew the dance were eager to exhibit themselves.

Wilkie Collins - The Black Robe