METHOD
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OF GIVING CHECK-MATE WITH A KNIGHT AND A BISHOP.
Situation of the White.
The king at his 4th square.
The queen’s knight at his square.
The king’s bishop at his square.
Situation of the Black.
The king at his bishop’s 3d.
1.
W. The bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.(a)
B. The king at his knight’s 3d.
2.
W. The king at his bishop’s 4th.
B. The king at his bishop’s 3d.
(a) The mate must be given in the corner which is of the colour on which the bishop moves; and when the adverse king retires to the corner, differently coloured, the stroke is effected, by a gradual process of eighteen or twenty moves.
3.
W. The knight at his queen’s bishop’s 3d.
B. The king at his knight’s 3d.
4.
W. The knight at his king’s 4th.(b)
B. The king at his rook’s 3d.
5.
W. The king at the adverse king’s bishop’s 4th.
B. The king at his rook’s 2d.(c)
6.
W. The king at the adverse king’s bishop’s 3d.
B. The king at his rook’s square.(d)
7.
W. The knight at the adverse queen’s 3d.
B. The king at his rook’s 2d.
(b) The office of the knight is, to exclude the adverse king from the squares which are out of the bishop’s field.
(c) If he had played his king to his rook’s fourth, you must have given check with the bishop at your king’s second; and should he then pass his king to that quarter of the board which has a corner square of your bishop’s colour, you will mate him in a few moves.
(d) If he had moved to his rook’s third, you must have played your bishop to your king’s second, to oblige his king to seek shelter in the black angle, whence your knight will soon dislodge him.
8.
W. The knight at the adverse king’s bishop’s 2d.(e)
B. The king at his knight’s square.(f)
9.
W. The bishop at his queen’s 3d.
B. The king at his bishop’s square.
10.
W. The bishop at the adverse king’s rook’s 2d.
B. The king at his square.
11.
W. The knight at the adverse king’s 4th.
B. The king at his bishop’s square.(g) ☜
12.
W. The knight gives check at the adverse queen’s 2d.
B. The king at his square.
(e) From this position, the mate is forced in about eighteen or twenty moves.
(f) The knight prevents his king from returning to the corner. Your object is, to exclude him with the knight from the black squares, and with the bishop from the white ones.
(g) He might have played his king to his queen’s square; which is traced to its consequences in a back game.
13.
W. The king at the adverse king’s 3d.
B. The king at his queen’s square.
14.
W. The king at the adverse queen’s 3d.
B. The king at his square.
15.
W. The bishop gives check.
B. The king at his queen’s square.
16.
W. The bishop at the adverse king’s bishop’s 2d.
B. The king at his queen’s bishop’s square.
17.
W. The knight at the adverse queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. The king at his queen’s square.
18.
W. The knight gives check at the adverse queen’s knight’s 2d.
B. The king at his queen’s bishop square.
19.
W. The king at the adverse queen’s bishop’s 3d.
B. The king at his queen’s knight’s square.
20.
W. The king at the adverse queen’s knight’s 3d.
B. The king at his queen’s bishop’s square.
21.
W. The bishop gives check.
B. The king at his queen’s knight’s square.
22.
W. The bishop at the adverse queen’s 2d.
B. The king at his queen’s rook’s square.
23.
W. The knight at the adverse queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. The king at his queen’s knight’s square.
24.
W. The knight gives check at the adverse queen’s rook’s 3d.
B. The king at his queen’s rook’s square.
25.
W. The bishop gives check-mate.
BACK GAME,
On the Eleventh Move of the Black.
11.
W. The knight at the adverse king’s 4th.
B. The king at his queen’s square.
12.
W. The king at the adverse king’s 3d.
B. The king at his queen’s bishop’s 2d.
13.
W. The knight at the adverse queen’s 2d.(a)
B. The king at his queen’s bishop’s 3d.
14.
W. The bishop at his queen’s 3d.(b)
B. The king at his queen’s bishop’s 2d.
15.
W. The bishop at his king’s 4th.
B. The king at his queen’s square.
16.
W. The king at the adverse queen’s 3d.
B. The king at his square.
(a) It is to be observed, that the knight does not change the direction of his moves, whether the black player adopt the course of the game or the back game.
(b) If you had given check with your bishop, he would have passed his king into the other corner; and your attack would have been eluded.
17.
W. The bishop gives check.
B. The king at his queen’s square.
18.
W. The bishop at the adverse king’s bishop’s 2d.
B. The king at his queen’s bishop’s square.
19.
W. The knight at the adverse queen’s bishop’s 4th.(c)
(c) It is needless to proceed. The position induced by the back game, is that of the seventeenth move of the game.