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~euRaalTlEs Or cngas.
Play Of the Science Of War-Gane That
Lasted - Lifetime.

Lasted - Lifetime,
Who really invented the game Of chess
history does not definitely prove, but it is
known that q Chinese mandarin, 1900
years ago, was able to soothc his troops
when they we're claIuorous for home by
proposing this game for their leisure hOlIs
IN winter quarters.
These games differ in the various coun-
tries Of the world. Thus, in the HiudOo
game, four distinct armies are employed,
each with their king, and each corps
counts among it's fighting men an elephant
AMI d knight vino stay but CaTiu0t b
slain. The Chinese game of chess, which
boasts Of the title of Choke-C hoo-Kong-k
(tho play Of the science OF war, has q
river running through the center of the
board which their elephants equivalent
to our bishops may never cross, and there
is g fort which their kings cannot pass.
The Orient wds undoubtedly the birth
place Of this historic game, and Us far
back as 1910 it fougished in Europe.
There is record Of Pope Alexander II re-
proving n bishop for playing the gaue
and Of his being compelled, as q punish
ment for indulging in such an anuse-
menty to repeat the psalter thrice and
wash the feet Of twelve poor people for
his sins.
At the time of the Conquest the game
was turned to a very practical account,
for when a young nObleman wished to
pay court to the lady Of his love, the fond
parent commonly made trial of his tenn
per by engaging him over a chess board.
AS a test OF temper and patience it has
peculiar merits, though there have been
some notable instances in which these
good qualities have failed. Is it not re-
corded for our warning how "John, son
Of King Henry, and Fulco fell at variance
at ChesJcs, and John brake Fulco's he'd
with the chest horde; and then FulCo
gave him such q blow that had almost
killed him. and in another chronicle how
William the ConqueTOr in his younger
yearos playing at cheese with the Prince
Of France, losing q mate, knocked the
c~hesseboard about his pate, which was a
cause AfteTward Of much eEHaity between
them"
Nor are examples lacking Of the abuse
of patience. The same authority who has
written of the fiery Fuleo gives us the fol
lowing account;
''There is a story OF two persons of dis
tinction-the one lived at Madrid, the
other at Rome-who played a game Of
chess at that distance. They began when
young, and though they both lived to a
very OLD age, yet the game was not fin
ished. One of them dying, appointed his
executor to go ON with the game. Their
method was: Each don kept a chessboard,
with the pieces ranged in exact order, in
their respective closets at Madrid and
Rome, aud having agreed who should
move first, the doRSnforms his playfellow
by letter that he has moved his pawn two
moves the courier speedily returns, and
advises his antagonist that, the minute
after he had the honor to receive this, he
likewise moved his kings pawn two
PAGES; and So they went on
tt would doubtless have turned the
brain of either Of these two worthy dons
IL they could have been present on any of
these occasions in recent times when a
game has been begun and finished by tele-
graph between places far apart in the
course Of a few Observation-Disclosures
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