Chess History And Reminiscences
Chess History And Reminiscences
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The only German translation hitherto noticed in this country isthat printed at the end of Kochs Codex (1814) but we learn froman editorial note that the version now given in the Schachtzeitungis by Herr Pastor Jesse, and that it was published at Hanover in1830. It was from Vida that Sir William Jones obtained the ideaof his poem Caissa, which Mr. Peter Pratt described in his Studiesof chess as an "elegant embellishment" an "admired effusion"and a classical offering to chess. In the Introduction... is found: To THE READER, GREETING. Strange perchance may it seemto some (courteous Reader) that anie man should employ his timeand bestow his labour in setting out such bookes, whereby menmay learn to play, when indeede most men are given rather toplay, than to studie and travell, which were true, if it were forthe teaching of games unlawfull, as dice play, or cogging, orfalsehoods in card play, or such like, but forasmuch as this gameor kingly pastime is not only devoid of craft, fraud, and guile, swearing, staring, impatience, fretting and falling out, but alsobreedeth in the players a certaine studie, wit, pollicie, forecaste, and memorie not only in the play thereof, but also in action ofpublick government, both in peace and warre, wherein bothCounsellors at home and Captaines abroade may picke out of thesewodden pieces some prettie pollicie both how to govern theirsubjects in peace, how to leade or conduct lively men in the fieldin warre: for this game hath the similitude of a ranged battell, as by placing the men and setting them forth on the marchmay very easily appeare.
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The only German translation hitherto noticed in this country isthat printed at the end of Kochs Codex (1814) but we learn froman editorial note that the version now given in the Schachtzeitungis by Herr Pastor Jesse, and that it was published at Hanover in1830. It was from Vida that Sir William Jones obtained the ideaof his poem Caissa, which Mr. Peter Pratt described in his Studiesof chess as an "elegant embellishment" an "admired effusion"and a classical offering to chess. In the Introduction... is found: To THE READER, GREETING. Strange perchance may it seemto some (courteous Reader) that anie man should employ his timeand bestow his labour in setting out such bookes, whereby menmay learn to play, when indeede most men are given rather toplay, than to studie and travell, which were true, if it were forthe teaching of games unlawfull, as dice play, or cogging, orfalsehoods in card play, or such like, but forasmuch as this gameor kingly pastime is not only devoid of craft, fraud, and guile, swearing, staring, impatience, fretting and falling out, but alsobreedeth in the players a certaine studie, wit, pollicie, forecaste, and memorie not only in the play thereof, but also in action ofpublick government, both in peace and warre, wherein bothCounsellors at home and Captaines abroade may picke out of thesewodden pieces some prettie pollicie both how to govern theirsubjects in peace, how to leade or conduct lively men in the fieldin warre: for this game hath the similitude of a ranged battell, as by placing the men and setting them forth on the marchmay very easily appeare.
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