Chess Sparks SHORT AND BRIGHT GAMES OF CHESS J. H. EllisCHESS SPARKS SHORT AND BRIGHT GAMES OF CHESS COLLRETRD ARD ARRANGED J. WW. ELLIS, M.A. "Those oft ure stratagems which errors seen, Nor is ft Homer noda, but we that dream Kasay on Critiien. “Little sticks kindle fire, great sticks put it out LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895,PREFACE. A srattkemust, of couse, be brief as well as bright, and so these Chess Games are limited to tweuty moves before a winning position is obtained. It may be thought that such games cannot be worth utten- tion, because they must be necessurily more or less badly played. ‘his may be partly truc, but it is equally true that the length of a game affords no proof of the soundness of the play. A fume without any mistake on either side is generally dull and Uninteresting. Moreover, it may be just as useful, and some- times nearly as difficult, to detect the error in a short game as in a long one. ‘Some of these games are given merely as amusing curiosities, but a large proportion of them have been played by first-class players in important ‘Tournaments aud Matches, Many ate old friends, such as Anderssen’s two immortal games, which no chess player will ever find tiresome; and though nearly all have been previously printed, many have been gathered from sources not readily accessible, : ‘The first player is always denoted by White, and the second player by Black ; and the Diagrams are always placed with the white pieces at the bottom. The Chronicle of ‘Tournaments and Matches was compiled for my own use, before meeting with Bachmann's Schach- chronik in the third part of his Geistreiche Schach-partien, published at Ansbach in 1894, ‘This is a very comprehensive record of chess events, beginning at 8000 15. and including the publication of most of the principal books on chess. ‘There is also a short summary of Tournaments in the Article on Chess in the Ninth Kdition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, by Mr. W.N. Potter, but it ouly extends to the year 1876, and does not include any Matches. LEE 29 ConLincHam GanpEns, SW.