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Who really invented the game Of chess
history does not definitely prove, but it is
known that a ChiUess mandarin, 1900
years ago, was ablp to soothe his troops
when they we're Clnm0rous for home by
proposing tAis game Tor their leisure ho'il5
In winter quarters
These games differ In the various conn
tries Of the world. Thus, in the UiuaoO
game, four distinct armies are employed,
egch with their king, and each corps
counts among its fighting men an elephant
and a KNIGHT who alaY nut Cannu be
slain. The Chinese game Of chess, which
boasts Of the title Of Cholle-C O-kOng-ki
(tLe 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, andthcIo
is q fort which their kings cannot pass.
The Orient wds undoubtedly the birth
place Of this historic game, and as far
back rs 1870 it. fourisbed in Europe.
There is record Of Pope Alexander II re-
proving n bishop for playing the game
| and OF his being compelled, as a punish
ment for INDUCING in such an amUse-
ment, to repent 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 q 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 q 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 Chestes, and John brake FulcO's he'd
with the chest horde; and then FulCO
| gave him such a blow that had almost
| killed him. and in another chronicle how
| William the ConqucTor in his younger
! yeaTos playing at cheese with the Prince
! Of France, losing q mate, knocked the
| chesseboard about his pate, which was Il
! cause afteTward of much eumity between
| them.n
Nor are examples lacking Of the abuse
| of patience. The same authority who has
written Of the fiery Fulco gives lis the fol-
lowing account;
''There is a story of two persons Of dis
t~inction-the one lived at Madrid, the
other at Rome--~ho played q 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 60 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, and having agreed who should
move first, the d~OTTanfOrms his playfelloW
by letter that he has moved his pawn TWO
moves the courier speedily returns, and
advises his antagonist that, the minute
after be had the honor to receive this, he
likewise moved his kings pawn two
PAGES; and so they went on"
1t would doubtless have turned the
brain Of either of these two worthy dons
II they could have been present IN any of
these occasions in recent times when a
game has been begun and finished by tele-
graph between places far apart in the
/ elllrsa of 81 few hnnrs-Ghamhersi
Journal.