Chess Player's Chronicle (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Chess Player's Chronicle<br><br>Scene - The Philidorian Chess Rooms.<br>(Time, 1 o'clock p.m.)<br><br>Professor Long is sipping a cup of coffee and rending the Era. Doctor MacIvor is sitting at a Chess-board, playing over a game between Morphy and Thompson, from the last number of the American Chess Monthly, which is lying before him. At the other end of the room, Messrs. Behnes and Sartorius are busy over a game.<br><br>The Professor. Doctor, if you go on in that way, studying Morphy's games, I shall have no chance whatever against you. You ought to have invited me to go over the games with you; let us have fair play, and study them together next time.<br><br>The Doctor. It was not with the intention of improving my play that 1 looked over the game; I only wanted to see if that Mr.Thompson, to whom Morphy gives a Knight, is a strong player; but I am convinced, by what I have seen of his games, that he is not so strong as I am, and I would not mind to play a match with him for a good stake. He makes very few blunders, but a great many weak moves, which shows want of Chess talent, and I think any of our first-rate London players could give him the Knight, Harrwitz could, with ease, so could Bibd, Falkbeer, Campbell, and others.<br><br>The Professor. Is it true that the American Chess Monthly changes I have heard it reported.<br><br>The Doctor. It changes editors, at any rate, for it announces that Messrs. Fiske and Morphy retire; although the latter, it seems, only gave his name to the paper. They do not say, however, who will be its future able conductors. You do not know, perhaps, that Anderssen has also retired from the Berlin Schachzeitung; there appears to have been a quarrel between Anderssen and Max Lange, but I do not exactly know what it was about.<br><br>The Professor. The close of the year brings a good many changes in the Chess world.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.