TEACHING WILLIE CHESS.
Sir George Newnes gives many amusing c'jess anecdotes m his sprightly little weekly Tit-Bits. In a recent issue the following morceau : — Paterfamilias, with a laudable desire to keep Willis at .horn© at night, offered to teach him to play chess. The boy was delighted, and the game began. " Put the little ones, pawns, all along tho front, and the big ones behind, as I show you." " I think that is cowardly. The big ones ought to be in front. Ma says " " Oh, but that's the rule. JTow, see — no, put that rook in the corner." " Rook— what's a rook?" " It's a kind of bird." "Well, that ain't a bird. It look's like a castle." " Call it a castle, then — and put the knight next " " Why is that called a knight ? It looks like a horse's head." " And then the bishop," went on paterfamilias, ignoring the question, " so. And then " " Why is the bishop's ll iead split in two, pa?" " Oh, that is his hat, a cardinal's hat." " But I thought he was a bishop?" " A cardinal is also a bishop. Now don't talk so much, Willie. Then you put the king and queen " " The queen is bigger than the king, pa." "Well, so she is — who said she wasn't?" said paterfamilias, with a trace of impatience in his tones ; • " and then another bishop so." " Why are there two bishops, pa'" " Because the rules say so. Now, I shall move first." "What! After all that trouble are you going to move them again?" " Say, Willie, I believe my 'head is aching. I shall show you the rest some other time," said paterfamilias, as he swept the pieces into the box.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 66
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282TEACHING WILLIE CHESS. Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 66
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