Download or read book The Games of the Match at Chess written by Athenæum Committee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Games of the Match at Chess: Played by the Chess Players of the Athenaeum, Philadelphia, and the New-York Chess-Club, Between the Years 1856 and 1857, With Variations and Remarks In the month of February, 1856, a proposal was made, by the New York Chess Club, to the amateurs who frequent the Athenaeum in Philadelphia, to play a Match at Chess by correspondence. The pro posal was accepted and it was agreed, that the Match should consist of two games, to be played simultaneously, each party to have the White pieces and the move in one of the games. The Athenaeum players fixed, by general consent, upon a committee for conducting the games, on their part. It was composed of the following gentlemen Mr. 'p. Randolph, Mr. H. P. Montgomery, Mr. W. G. Thomas, Mr. L. Elkin, Mr. A. E. Dougherty, and Dr. S. Lewis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.