Chess (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Chess The game of Chess has of late years become so popular among all classes in this country, that any statement of its attractions is almost super¿uous. Coming to us as it has, invested with every dignity and importance that antiquity can give, it has kept pace for more than five centuries with the most rapidly advancing civilization. Never forgotten in any country where it has once set foot, it has only been neglected when art, science, and every intellectual pursuit have been neglected also. It has been for centuries the favourite recreation Of the greatest minds, it has emancipated itself from every social restriction and surmounted every national custom and prejudice, it has survived every political change and every distraction of fashion, and is, today, more widely known and practised than any other game in the world. Who, in View of these facts, and making the slightest claim to culture, can afford to neglect it? 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.