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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 

 WEEK. 



-Tret titer: UystlC Part. Boston; Cleveland, O.; 



i m ire " ' I ■■ a & ratogi ; iclp I : Montreal vs. 



I r Indianapolis vs. Louisvilie, at Louis- 

 ville; Auburn vs. Manchester, at Manchester; Champion City vs. Alle- 

 gheny, at. Springfield, O.; Arlington vs. Alaska of S. I., at Stapleton 

 Flats; Resolute vs. D&Gance; WitoKa fa. HajmaSer, at l.uusingburg 

 /uty 28.— Bnnnlng m eting at Saratoga. Cricket as above. 

 Boston vs. St. Louis, at St. Louis; Hartford vs. Chicago, al 

 Caicago; Manchester vs. Bed Cap, al a vs. Lowell, at 



Lowell ; Kochester vs. 8ts lit Buffalo ; Putnam vs. Lafay- 



ette, at Prospect Pari;; Eon vs. Mohawk, at Tottenviile. B. I.; Ala.ska of 



(v"esl iv ttofca ra. Hartford (amateurs) at 



Regatta of tiie Beverly Yachl ' ttb, oS Swajnptcott, Mass. 

 llaudicap games of ScotUsJ American Club. 



■■■'■. io.. i .'■-.] 1 1 ■ ,, :.. e al Saratoga. Prize shoot of 



aganset Gun Club, ai Newport. I:, i. Base «l Manchester vs, 

 Miuneapolis, at. Minneapolil : I Le ?S. Syracuse I ■■■ I, al Erie, Pa.; In- 

 (liauuiiolls vs. Boston, at Indi.mapolis; Witoka vs. Wittcrliiiry, at Wa,- 

 ■■i i ii, 



',,,';/ 3l.« Trolling: Westminster, Md.; Kccnc, N. fl.; Bnfc 



,'tilo. N. V-i Froeport, l". Running meetings: Saratoga, N. Y.; Parker 



City, Pa. Base ball; Chicago vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati; St. I, 



. rtlle, at Louisville ; Indianapolis vs. Boston, at Indianapolis. 



, iti l Trottfng - ■■■in, ii-. gunning meetings as above. 



Cricket: Montreal vs. Port Hope. Regatta or the Newburgh Yacht 



Club. 



ThvnScty, Aug. 2.— Trotting as above ; also at Jefferson, O. Banning 



;ii,ove. Cricketl Montreal vs. Port Hope. Base ball: Chica- 



", , innati, at, Cincinnati ; St. Louis vs. Louisville, at Louisville. 



THE GAME OF CHESS. 



WITH regard to the origin of the game of chess Ave are 

 milch in the dark. Although it was handed down to 

 us from the Saracens it is by no means probable that they were 

 The original inventors of it. According to some it was origi- 

 nated by the celebrated Grecian hero Diomodes ; others say 

 that Hie two Greek brothers Ledo and Tyrrhene were the in- 

 ■at'ly pressed by hunger sought to 

 nusement. It is certain, however, 

 3ient standing, and in former ages 

 rt of Europe. But of late years it 

 trely, on accorlnt of the study and 

 ;ht required to play if. To-day it 

 people of Iceland with whom study 

 amusement. 



;ticed by the greatest warriors and 

 of years was deemed as essential 

 stock and waist belt, as inculcating 

 iples. Tbereis nogame so peculiarly 

 ve read that Tamerlane was a de- 

 votee of the game and engaged in its playing during the very 

 time of the decisive battle with Bajazet, the Turkish emperor, 

 who was defeated and taken prisoner. It is also related of Al 

 Arnin, the caliph of Bagdad, that he was engaged at chess with 

 his freedman Kutliar, at the time when Al Mamun's forces 

 were carrying on the seige of that, city with so much vigor that 

 it was on the point of being carried by assault. Dr. Hyde, 

 quotes an Arabic history of the Saracens in which the Caliph 

 is said to have cried out when warned of his danger, " Let me 

 alone, for I see checkmate against Kuthar! " We are told that 

 Charles 1. was wrdpped up in this game when the news was 



To rjtra t Yip.EF.si'OMjiiHTS. — We earnestly request our cor- 

 respondents and contributors to remember that in writing for 

 the printer only one side of the paper should be used. Wo 

 hive now on hand a considerable number of communications 

 i mot be used until they have been copied, and when 

 our copyist will have time to I ike them in hand is one of the 

 things " no fellow can find out. 



The destruction of life and property by lightning, during the 

 past, month, has exceeded that for a similar length of time for 

 many years. The reported disasters of this nature are confined 

 ■ill occur in all p LI 



ventors. and that being gn 

 alleviate it s pangs by this at 

 that it is a game Of very niv 

 was fashionable Jrj every pa 

 has fallen into disrepute eat 

 intense application of thoiij 

 is a great favorite with the 

 is a pastime and thought ai 

 Chess was formerly pra, 

 generals, and for a aumbei 

 to the military man as the 

 strategical ideas and princ 

 interesting as Chess, and , 



brought of the 



English ; but s 



intelligence, that ht 



posure, so that 



received had g 



King Jo' 



,1 intention of the Scots to sell him to tin 



tilt 



per 



s he discomposed by this alarming 

 nied the game with the utmost eom- 

 could have known that the letter he 

 in htm information of anything remarkable. 

 J. chess when the deputies from Rouen came 

 to acequiiint him that their city was beseiged by Phillip Au- 

 gustus, Imthe would not hear them until lie had finished his 

 game. 



The following remarkable anecodote is related by Dr. Robert- 

 son in his " History of Charles V. i John Frederick, Elector 



lies, was con- 

 . him While at 

 ■tier. After a 

 •ctions on the 



■ . i. :•• IgS 



nish the game, 

 iwever, put to 



of Saxiiny, haviug been taken prisoner by ( 'hr 

 demned to death. The decree was intimated fci 

 chess with Ernest of Brunswick, his fell, e.v pris 

 short pause, and giving utterance to some reft 

 irregularity and injustice of the Emperor's pi 

 turned to his antagonist, whom he challenged to 1 

 He played with his usual ingenuity and attenlio 

 beaten Ernest, expressed all the satisfaction that is c 

 felt on gaining such victories. He was not, howev 

 death, but set at liberity after five years confinement." 



We are informed in the Chronicles of the Moorish Kings 

 of Granada, that in 1896, Mehemed Balba seized upon the 

 crown to the prejudice of the true heir, his elder brother, and 

 that his life was one continual round of disasters. His wars 

 with Castile were invariably unsuccessful, and his death was 

 occasioned b.y a poisoned vest. Knowing his death to be in- 

 evitable, he dispatched an officer to the fortress of Salobrena 

 to put his brother Juzaf to death lest that prince's adherents 

 should form any obstacle to the succession of his son. The al- 

 e-aide found the prince playing at chess with an alfaqui or 

 priest. Juzaf begged hard for two hours respite, which was 

 denied him; at last, with great reluctance, the officer permitted 

 him to finish the game ; but before it was completed a mes- 

 senger arrived with the news of the death of Mehemed, and 

 the unanimous election of Juzaf to the crown. We have also a 

 curious anecdote of Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, who, having 

 been accustomed to amuse himself at chess witli his wife, and 

 being constantly vanquished by her, a mutual hatred took 

 place, which became so violent that when the Count was 

 taken prisoner at the battle of Bovines she suffered him to 

 remain a lorn?, time in prison, though she could easily have 

 procured his release. 



In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries voluminous 

 works were written upon the game of Chess. Sarasin wrote an 

 express treatise on the different opinions of the originof the Lat- 

 in schacchf, whence the French etliccM and our chess is formed. 

 Menage was also very full upon the same topic. Lcunclavius 

 took it lo come from l/sbodheg, famous Turkish robbers; Sis- 

 tnoud from the German deacJie, "Theft," and that from- 

 eatoiilus. lie argued chess was the same with the hiduk Iqtru no 

 ul&rumoi the liomuns. This opinion avbs also countenanced 

 by Vassius and Salmisius, who derived the word from cahulns, 

 as used for lalrunouius. Telosanus derived it from the He- 

 brew scaofi, vallam't et mat mortmis ; whence cheek, and check- 

 mate. Fabricus says; "A celebrated Persian astronomer, one. 

 Sehatrenseha, invented the game of chess, and gave it his own 

 name, ivhich it still bears in that country." Nicod derived it 

 from fcheiv/i/e, or xeque, a Moorish word for lord, king and 

 prince. Bocharl adds, that acach is originally Persian, and 

 thai ii'' mat in that language sign dies that the King is 

 dead. These latter opinions— of Kicod and Bochart— were 

 also held by Scriverius and appear the most probable. 



There is, in the British Museum, a small treatise on ches3, 

 written, as supposed, about five hundred years ago, at the end 

 of which is a representation of a round chess-board, with 

 directions for placing the men upon it. In this the knight can 

 cover the sixty-four squares on the board in as many moves. 

 The board is divided into these six ly-four parts by four pan, 



centric, circles, having an empty space in the middle; and 

 each of these is divided into sixteen sections. No. one is j 

 in the outermost circle ; No. two in the third circle counting 

 inwards in the division to the fight hand of the former ; No. 

 three is placed in the outermost circle in the division to Hd 

 right hand of two j fourin the third circle counting inward to 

 the right hand of three ; and thus alternately from the first to 



the third, and f roca the third in the first circle, till the t 



is completed by sixteen on the I bird circle to the left hand of 

 one. No. seventeen is then placed on the division of the in- 

 nermost circle to the right hajfjd of one-; eighteen on the second 

 i ig inward to the right of seventeen; and thus alter- 

 nately from the fourth to the second, and from tne second lo 

 the fourth circles, until lue round is completed by thirty-two, 

 airecthj I lelow No. one. No thirty-three is then placed on the 

 third circle directly to the right hand of No. two ; thirty-four 

 on the fourth circle to the right hand of four ; and thus alter- 

 nately between the third and fourth circles, until the round is 

 again completed by forty-eight on the fourth circle, directly 

 beneatn thirty-three. The numbers are now placed in a retro- 

 grade fashion; fifty on the outer circle iu that division im- 

 mediately to the right hand of on? ; fifty-one on the third 

 circle, to the left hand of two, and directly below No. thirty- 

 two j fifty-two is then placed on the outer circle, immediately 

 to the left of one : fifty-three on the third circle, directly to the 

 left of sixteen, and thus alternately on the first and third 

 circles, until the last round is completed by sixty-four between 

 the numbers three and live. 



J On this round board,suppose the black king to be placed in No. 

 forty-eight on the fourth circle, the queen stands on No. seven. 

 teen to his left, the bishops in thirty-three and two, (he knights; 

 eighteen and forty-seven, the castles in three and fifty .: llm 

 pawns on nineteen, four, forty-nine, sixty-four, and on forty. 

 me, thirty-two, and one. The white king will then 

 i twenty-five, opposite to the black queen ; the white 

 forty, opposite to the black king, and so on. In 

 3 a board of this kind it will be found, that the 

 power of the castle is double to that in the common game, and 

 that of the bishop only one-half; the former having sixteen 

 squares to range in, and the latter only four. The king can 

 castle only one way, and it is very diiliciilt to bring lite game 

 to a conclusion. 



A very complicated game was invented by a Duke of Rut- 

 land during the last century. In this the board has fourteen 

 Si ,n : ils breadth, uud only ten iii height, making in all 

 one hundred and forty ; and there are fourteen pawns on each 

 side, which may MOVG either one, two, or three squares the first 

 time. The other pieces were the king, queen, two bishops, 

 two knights and a ormcneS mgik uniting the move of the king 

 die, and roof:. On I he other side of the king was a 

 wdiose move united that of the castle and knight, 

 is, a single knight, a crowned castle, and t. rook, 

 le the pawns arc of little use, rather encumbering 

 the board than otherwise: and th,' knights lose much of their 

 value, which consequently renders the game more defcetiv 

 and less interesting than the common one. 



six, fifty. i 

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playing i 



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In this 



Ira Painb. — This renowned shot has returned from his 

 English trip, arriving July 17th per steamer "Queen" from 

 London. 



Mr. Paine desires to return thanks, througli the columns of 

 the Fobxst and Stream asd Rod and Gcn, for the many 

 courtesies of which he was a recipient, ; notably from the 

 members of the Irish Team and Dublin Gun Club. The latter 

 challenged Mr. Paine to shoot thirty birds at thirty yards rise 

 with Mr. Donnellan for £50. The match was won by the 

 American champion with the greatest of ease. Several other 

 matches were offered by the club, but were of necessity re- 

 fused, Mr. Paine having already engaged passage in the Queen 

 for July 4th. In all his matches, Paine used a superb breech 

 loader made by Stephen Grant, of London. He brought with 

 him also a handsome two year old thoroughbred stallion, by 

 Boseerucian out of Gamos. 



A New Belt,— A. A. Case, of Ghetopa, Kansas, leader of 

 the frish team in their chicken bunt in 1871, and one of the 

 best shots and moat practical sportsmen in the West, bas in- 

 vented and patented a game belt which surpasses all previous 

 appliances for the easy carriage of game. It is a belt so adjust- 

 ed as to evenly distribute the weight over the shoulders and 

 and back II has four hooks on the rear on which. 

 can be hung as much game from snipe and quail to ducks and 

 grouse as a. man can carry. In the front are pockets for am- 

 munition which is convenient, and the game hangs in the rear 

 out of the way. It is the Excelsior Game Belt ; the price is 

 $4, and particulars can be had of the patentee. This is the 

 second bell, patented by Kansas gentlemen, Mr. N. S. Goss, 

 of Neosho, having some two years since contrived a very ex- 

 cellent belt. 



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The SeonTSMAX's Gazetteer.— The "Gazetteer" duly 

 came to hand; and to say that I am delighted with the book 

 Only faintly expresses my appreciation of it. How you have 

 been able to gather so much valuable matter together is almost 

 a mystery to me: it cirtainiy speaks well for your industry 

 and knowledge of the subjects discussed. For the size, and 

 valuable information Contained, the price, I think, is remark- 

 ably low, and 1 would no; he without it for double the price. 

 Every sportsman and everybody interested in sporting matters 

 should have a copy, and I "shall take great, pleasure in reeom- 

 • to my iifin-, friends. H. C. Yaki:o\v,M. D., 



WaaMflfftto,, Julj/ 20, 1871, P S. A. 



