Tristan comes to buy falcons; he lingers to play chess with the merchants; the anchor is weighed, and Tristan is borne off in the ship.
The rules given below are based upon the code published in "Walker's Art of Chess Play.
The Game of Chess is not merely an idle Amusement.
And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favourable Change, and that of persevering in the search of resources.
Chess is a game of elegance and interest, and the being a good chess-player, carries with it a certain impression of general ability and of intellectual activity and resource.
But chess is a fascinating game, and will be apt to make larger demands upon your time than you can afford.
Perhaps I may allow that playing at chess adds a certain degree of interest to the perusal of the history of a campaign, whether ancient or modern, with its various moves, its checks and counter-checks, its retreats and castlings.
Of the same kind, considerate nature that his father was before him, he compassionated the lonely man's solitary days, and was wont to play a game at chess with him sometimes in an evening, to while away one of his weary hours.
Makigtsís ku nímu kun dúnay pusta, I’ll playchess with you if we bet.
Bautun tikaw sa tsís arun mutagam ka, I won’t let you win a single chess game so you’ll learn your lesson.
Gipamuáya kug ahidris níya, He trapped me into playing chess with him.
I wanted to talk to you and have a little game of chess and a bottle of ale and----" Anthony smiled serenely.
He makes Fry's Liniment," Johnson Boller put in disgustedly, yet happily withal because it was plain that the boy would have no part in spoiling his chess game and the little chat about Beatrice.
Another day a student was playing chess in recitation-time, feeling certain that his name would not be called, as the professor had a fixed habit of calling up the students in regular order, and this student was at the tail of the class.
Many writers consider that the Roman Latronculi and the Greek Digrammisnios were games of Chess or Draughts.
Each one is supported on rows and rows of pillars, from them one looks down into a court, where the Great Mogul used to sit and play Chess with live pieces.
This is probably one of the first records of games, although it is not certain that the one referred to was Chess any more than that it was a game of cards, which some writers have supposed.
There are many historical descriptions of Chess in Europe too well known to be repeated; besides which, there are numerous copper, steel, and wood engravings showing persons playing Chess.
The chequered backs gave rise to the supposition that the board for playing chess had been transferred to the backs of the cards, and the chessmen had been converted into printed figures on the faces of the cardboard.
It is claimed that Chess was first played before the walls of Troy, having been invented by Palamedes to amuse the Greeks, who were tired of the monotony of the siege.
Then one day a stranger from India presented himself at the great gates of the palace, saying that he brought a game called Chess to teach the King.
And the King, like a spoilt baby, was delighted with this new toy, and thrust away the chess from his sight with disdain.
And it is curious, among other domestic subjects, that we find represented on the walls, in a very admirable style, Rameses playing chess with his Queen.
Papa said that Susy Warner and he were going to name the chess after some of the old bible heroes, and then play chess on Sunday.
Not knowing his person, he enquir'd which was he; but was much surprised to find him playing at chess with a private souldier.
It is indeed confidently asserted that Sanscrit books on Chess exist in this country; and if they can be procured at Benares, they will assuredly be sent to us.
I cannot blame the holy martyr Bishop Ridley for frequently playing at Tennis before he became a prelate, nor for playing at the more serious game of Chess twice a day after he was made a bishop.
At present, I can only exhibit a description of a very ancient Indian game of the same kind; but more complex, and, in my opinion, more modern than the simplechess of the Persians.
It was like a vision as Lorimer was seating himself, and his eyes caught the situation of the chess men.
Office calls will not begin until eight," he said and she rolled up the table and brought out the beautiful chess men.
Mrs. Cummings, "I am sure there is no such thing in his majesty's ships, as sailors knowing chess or any of those hard things that are enough to set one crazy to think of.
We may then suppose that chess was a favourite evening amusement of the Celt.
Flann Sionna, Monarch of Ireland, had encamped on this plain, and ostentatiously commenced a game of chess as a mark of contempt for the chieftains whose country he had invaded.
English writers speak of the use of chess immediately after the Conquest, and say that the Saxons learned the game from the Danes.
Chess has already been mentioned more than once in this work as a constant occupation of princes and chieftains.
He had flashed across the chesshorizon some years previously as a player of surpassing brilliance by defeating Turgieff, when the great Russian master had visited London and had played twelve simultaneous boards at the London Chess Club.
They predicted a dazzling chess career for Crewe, but he disappointed their aged hearts by retiring suddenly from match chess, and they mourned him as one unworthy of his great chess gifts and the high hopes they had placed in him.
He did not sit down again after greeting her, but stood with one hand resting on an inlaid chess table, with wonderful carved red and white Japanese chessmen ranged on each side, which he had been examining when she entered the room.
You'd never make a chess player; your concealed intentions are too easily discovered.
He had once said that there was a certain affinity between solving chess problems and the detection of crime mystery: once the key-move was found, the rest was comparatively easy.
Serious devotees of chess knew the name of Crewe in another capacity--as the name of a man who might have aspired to great deeds if he had but taken the game as his life's career.
Fraech then takes to the playing of chess with a man of their (?
The bliadain ria tuidecht do Mider co Echaid do imbert na fidehille boi oc year before the coming of Mider to Echaid for playing of the chess was he at tochmarc etaine, ocus nis n-etad leis.
They were three days and three nights at the playing of the chess on account of the abundance of the precious stones in the household of Fraech.
The lost part obviously describes the issue of the chess game or games, and the penalties demanded by Bochaid: what these penalties were is plain from the succeeding story.
And said Ailill, "In truth for the play was thy thought, and to thee was the chess more dear.
Maev; the men for the chessshe set: And a lord of the court in the chess-man sport by Fraech in a match was met.
Not it is my desire," said Medb, but to go to the chess yonder against Fraech.
Get to it, I am pleased," said Ailill, and they play the chess then, and Fraech.
Try to play chess under such conditions and you will play stupidly and lose your temper.
We seem to have used our ample coarse intellectuality for no other purpose than to develop and master and maintain the convention of property, to turn life into a sort of mercantilechess and spend our winnings grossly.
We played chess and écarté; and we all agreed to make old times of it.
It is an age since we last had a game of chess together.
Again and again he mourns over the precious hours he has spent over chess and dice and games of chance.
It was in the summer of the year 1543, a time when it was my custom to go every day to the house of Antonio Vicomercato, a gentleman of the city, and to play chess with him from morning till night.
The anticipated game at chess enhanced the value of the invitation.
I was learning to play chess of the purser--the game had already become a passion with me.
Then they met Cousin Chilian, who had been playing a rather prolonged game of chess with a visitor.
She went over one evening on special invitation, when Chilian was to play chess with the father.
She had great regard for her neighbours' opinion, and for that reason objected to chess and cards on Sunday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
