Game of kings and castles

Usage examples of chess.

Seeking Don Juan, they found him playing chess with the alcaide of the palace, and the renegade at once began to comment on the Christian religion in uncomplimentary terms.

The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.

After a few more minutes, Jimmy and Att broke out a pocket chess set and began to play and I turned back to my notes.

Jimmy and Att broke out a pocket chess set and began to play and I turned back to my notes.

That was a few days ago, but to-day, when Bernardine was playing chess with the Swedish Professor, Mrs.

Inevitably, there were card games, checkers, and chess in the bunks, and probably bull sessions.

Sacco and Vanzetti, is I say, and about the Cuyahoga Massacre, about playing chess with old Alexander Hamilton McCone, and on and on.

In the cabin, its lamp hidden from without by deadlights, he found Stephen and Bernard playing chess.

I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Crimean villa he shared with his brother, Vladimir began to compose his first chess problems, a hobby that would become his second extraliterary passion, an overflow valve for surplus creative energy, a training ground in artistic strategy.

But since Hooka had been slain in the famous game of live Darza-and I was genuinely sorry not to have been a witness to that most amazing chess game ever played on Callisto, I assure you!

On the bench rested a tray of oddments including a ball of bright red yarn and two large hooked wooden needles, a wine cup, a chess set carved of ivory, a bowl and spoon, a bundle of rosemary with a sprinkling of pale blue flowers among the spiky leaves, and a writing knife, stoppered inkhorn, and several uncut goose quills.

Here was no less than the gold watch Paul Morphy, meteorically short-reigned King of American chess, had been given by an adoring public in New York City on May 25, 1859, after the triumphal tour of London and Paris which had proven him to be perhaps the greatest chess genius of all time.

The Morphy watch, the watch Paul Morphy had kept his whole short life, despite his growing hatred of chess, the watch he had willed to his French admirer and favorite opponent Jules Arnous de Riviere, the watch that had then mysteriously disappeared, the watch of watcheswas his!

Why the devil should he think that having the Morphy watch should improve his chess game?