The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-11

muttrrng: ..To lose the queen is losing
the game" while Sulelman Pasha,
smiling triumphantly, removed the
hostile queen from the board.
The onlookcrS. who mostly sided
with the Pasha. brraihrd as if they had
been relieved from Il heavy load. In
their opinion the game was decided,
for White could not hold ont without
his queen. Several of them were
already on the point of Withdrawing,
when they were suddenly startled by
the clear ringing voice of the stranger,
who called out: "Maie in twelve
moves
Sulciman Pasha'S looks grew dark
the smile died on his ipS. A change
had us suddenly overcast the features
| of RrShid Ari: almost beside himself,
he jumped on II seal To follow the game
from II more elevated point, while the
spectators, barely daring to draw
breath, counted the moves rs they fol-
lowed each other.
With mastcrly skill White now led
his force into the field, encircling the
hostile king in II powerful grasp and
keeping him within IN iron ring. AT
the tenth move the Pasha tried tU
break through the blockade by sacriiic-
ing his queen, but in vain. White de-
clined to accept the sacrifice, and
moved his knight with "Check to the
king" Eleventh move! The specta-
tors, whose excitement had now reached
fever-heat, saw that their Pasha, never
before vanquished, would be check
mated the next move. Suleman 5
king was compelled to withdraw into a
corner, and with the twelfth move, as
he had predicted, the stranger pro-
nounced "Checkmate!h
A murmur of admiration was heard
from the spectators, while the Pasha
sat there with bent head, rs if trying to
search in his memory, when suddenly,
rs if a thought had flashed upon him.
he turned upon the stranger. 'Onc'
already in my life, he said, 81 have
seen chess played in the manner il
which thou hast played to-day. The
mastery moves are not unknown tt
me, but | was unable to resist them
The game, however, which was then
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more beautiful even than to-day. Guns
of the heaviest calibre represented the
castles, fleet calvary were the knights
and in the place of the pawns well arm
ed infantry formed the vanguard. An'
when the guns on the one side thun
dered their Check to the other, th'
ground beneath our feet seemed t.
shake, rs if burning lava was throw
from II volcano.
"At that time we stood opposed t.
an army of one hundred and lift,
thousand men, II terrible number
which, led by the genius of Il singl
man, threatened to crush us complete
". And this man whose genius mad
our brave soldiers take To flight, an
whom il was impossible TO withstand
alwas Il son of the cold North. II wa
,,jFi6nly To the recklcssness of lIaiiz Pasha
b hIahe Turkish commander-in-chief,w VIII
sEehvied the youthful genius his brillian
I mccess, and who, though fully warned
tdwildly pursued the Egyptians, that W
,dIbwed the victory of Nisib, which other
wise we never should have gained ~
Il The Pasha stopped, and casting
long and penetrating look on his ad
afyersary, suddenly cried out enthus
! Iastically: "Stranger, thy incompatible
Sfplay of to-day recalls to my mem"r
'dafresh the game of chess at Nisib an
its skillful player. Only one man ca
III play like that, and that man is-Co
Y4onel Mol;ke!"
fibs s.Thou hast hit il, Pasha," til
istranger calmy replied. "My name
~ ll This, indeed, was Count Won Moltk'
bhWhile young man he went tn III
/ East, and was in the service of Sulta
] Mahmoud from 1885 to 1889. lie Wa
!, iprescnt AT the battle of Nisib, when, d
above said, the Turkish commandment
3hchIef, jealous of the great abilities
~ the young soldier, refused to folio
Moltke'S advice and so lost the battle