Chess

the most. purely intellectual of all games of skill, the origin of -which has been much disputed, but probably arose in India 5,000 years ago, and thence spread through Persia and Arabia, to Europe and America. The game has undergone many modifi¢ations during its diffusion throughout the world, but retains marked traces of its Oriental origin. The game is played by two persons on @ board which ‘consists of 64 squares, arranged in 8 rows of 8 squares each, alternately black and white. Hach Hake es ae Aiea WR a 2 CHESS. player has two sets of pieces of opposite colors of 16 men each, and of yarious powers, according to their rank. These sets of men are arrayed opposite each other, and attack, defend, and capture like hostile armies. The superior officers occupying the first row on each side are called pieces, the inferior’ men, all alike, standing on the row immediately in front of the pieces, are called pawns. The che men being placed, the players begin the engagement by moving alternately; each aiming to gain a numerical superiority by capturing his opponent’s men, as well as such advantages of position as may conduce to victory. a TCG. A v Sw: Chester, a city and port of entry in Chester county, Pa.; on the Delaware river and the Philadelphia, Wil. mington & Baltimore and other rail. roads; 15 miles S. of Philadelphia: is the oldest city in the State—settled in 1643 by Swedes; has an ex: cellent harbor, one of the most note‘ ship-building plants in the world, and manufactories of cotton and wooler goods; and is the seat of the Croze1 Theological Seminary (Bapt.). Pop