The Life of Philidor, Musician and Chess-playerE. H. Butler & Company, 1863 - 156 psl. |
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10 psl. - Whether he had never tried to play by memory, without feeing the board ?— Philidor replied, that as he had calculated moves, and even whole games at night in bed, he thought he could do it, and immediately played a game with the Abbe Chenard, which he...
12 psl. - We fhall add to this account, a circumftance of which we were eye-witnefles : In the middle of one of his games, a falfe move was defignedly made, which after a great number of moves he difcovered, and placed the piece where it ought to have been at firft.
114 psl. - ... Mar•echal Ferrant had then been produced in Paris more than two hundred times. f But, of courfe, it is as a Chefs-player, that Philidor holds a place among the privileged few, whofe claim to be the Primarii — " the foremoft men of all the world," in their refpective fpheres — has been fettled by an action, on the part of their fellow-men, as authoritative as it is indefinable — by a tacit admiffion of fupremacy, a general and fpontaneous act of homage. In his own day he ftood, in the...
25 psl. - Janffen introduced hioi to all the celebrated players of the time. Sir Abraham was not only the beft chefs-player in England, but likewife the beft player he...
6 psl. - Philidor might poflibly have been admitted earlier than drift rule allowed, prefers to infer that the Motett was never written. Andre Philidor makes the Motett to have been written at twelve, and the King's prefent to have been ten louis, I* performed at Paris at the Concert Spirituel, which were favourably received by the public as the productions of a child, who was already a Mafter and Teacher of Mufic.
10 psl. - Philidor then finding he could readily play a fingle game, offered to play two games at the fame time, which he did at a coffee-houfe...
12 psl. - Polifh Draughts there ever was, or ever will be. This is among the moft extraordinary examples of ftrength of memory, and imagination.
33 psl. - The King saw him play several times at Potsdam, but did not play with him himself: there was a Marquis De Varennes, and a certain Jew, who played even with the King, and to each of these Philidor gave a knight, and
26 psl. - Abraham, befides the common game, delighted in playing at a more complicated one, invented by the late Duke of Rutland. At this game, the board is 14 fquares in...