. Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice . en, when surrounded in a house at Benderby the Turks, barricaded the building, and then comfortably satdown to chess. From his habit of employing the king more than anyother piece, this prince lost every game. Our limits foibid our entering more fully into the history of chess,or to give more anecdotes connected with it, but as at the head ofthis little introductory sketch of the game we have prefixed an illus-tration, showing two Egyptians playing at it, we will end it by arepresentation of a king, queen, bishop,
. Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice . en, when surrounded in a house at Benderby the Turks, barricaded the building, and then comfortably satdown to chess. From his habit of employing the king more than anyother piece, this prince lost every game. Our limits foibid our entering more fully into the history of chess,or to give more anecdotes connected with it, but as at the head ofthis little introductory sketch of the game we have prefixed an illus-tration, showing two Egyptians playing at it, we will end it by arepresentation of a king, queen, bishop, and knight, copied from aset of very ancient and singularly curious chessmen, which are nowdeposited in the British Museum. They were discovered by apeasant in the year 1831, whilst digging on the seashore in theparish of Uig, in the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, and from the peculiar 14 CHESS. costume of the figures, and the material of which they are made,being the ivory teeth of the walrus or sea-horse, it is supposed thatthey were sculptured in Iceland in the twelfth THE CHESS-BOAKD AND CHESSMEN, The CHESS-BOAED, or, as it is technically termed, the EXCHEQUER,is a square board divided off into sixty-four compartments or squares,chequered alternately black and white. The rows of squares run-ning from one player to the other, are termed files ; those crossingfrom left to right, ranlcs; and the lines from corner to corner. Chessmen.—Each plaj-er is provided with sixteen pieces, or men :of these, eight are pawns, two castles, two Jcnights, two bishops, onea queen, and one a Icing. These pieces are usually made out of bone orivory, one set being perfectly white, and the other stained red. Theshapes of these men exhibit every variety of outline it is possible toimagine, from very ungainly efforts of the turners skill to mostelaborate specimens of Indian workmanship; and therefore we refrainfrom bestowing an illustration upon them, preferring to call ourreaders attention to
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