partially-played

Updated: July 4, 2026

He was a chess-player, and, when travelling alone, he used to carry a book with diagrams of partially-played games, in which it is required to give checkmate in a fixed number of moves. He would study one of them, and then, shutting the book, play out the game mentally.

Mary Somerville - Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville