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... round, the blitz may thunder and scream, but the little group, in its own enchantment, dresses and dines extravagantly, plays chess in the topmost room and works out its own problems, even the most tragic ones, with wit and elegance. I mustn't forget to add ...
... SECOND A lunch-time scene at The Gambit, Budge Row, a restaurant in the heart of the City of Londo-i which caters specially for chess players. Three rows of tables stretch from one end of the room to the other, and while the players absent- mindedly sip their ...
... her now would be murder Baron Kokesfalva watches the young man Toni and his daughter Edith (LILLI PALMER) during a game of chess. Edith hopes she ivill get better, to marry Toni, but it is only when it is too late that he realises how much he really loved ...
... printing. Chess is a game that must be learnt young and requires an immensity of experience. Text-books can help, particu larly in the initial stages, but later on their value is doubtful. Kenneth Harkness and Irving Chernev, of the American Chess Review ...
... CONTRIBUTION TO CHESS (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) Mr. Morley tells us all about the idea, explaining with zest the frolicsome outflanking movements that are now open to the knight and the new possibilities for escape open to the harassed king. Chess, however ...
... to under stand, a chess player of respectable but not phenomenal ability. (So, at least, says the book's wrapper the author is still more modest.) His contri bution to chess is, that he has designed and demonstrates the uses of a chess-board with twelve ...
... amounts to a study of the science of chess, as a base for the history of British chess- playing. At the same time, he so clearly words what he has to say that the book should be comprehensible for the ignoramus. Chess, Mr. Matthews says, is the pure form ...
... point at all costs and drive it home by every neatly- arranged incident. The pattern is as square and black-and-white as a chess-board, and I found myself longing for .something irrelevant or picaresque to happen, something which would make me feel that ...
... novel. ESSENCE OF LONDON Mrs. Robert Henrey, whose book London is reviewed on this page by Vernon Fane DISPERSING A CELEBRATED CHESS COLLECTION Mr. Alexander Hammond, who has spent the past forty years gathering together his 300 sets, now valued at over £20 ...
... seems to stale. WINNING CHESS (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.), bv Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld, is a well-devised plan of operations for the beginner wishing to improve his game It breaks down the monster combinations of chess into simple, basic, easily ...
... believe in little Miss Marple, who solves this crime under the nose of a Scotland Yard man. Yet for those who belong to the chess-problem school of detective-novel readers, who like their problems teasing and yet soluble, it will be a satisfying entertainment ...
... here we step across the border into thrillerdom, where motives may be machine- made and human beings step to and fro on the chess-board according to their pre-ordained characteristics. It is very good of its kind, this story of the violent outcome of a ...