Chess Player's Chronicle, 第 6 巻

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R. Hastings, 1846
 

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157 ページ - An extremely light brass spring, which is screwed to a block of ivory or hard wood, and which has no connexion with the metallic parts of the clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the wire of the electromagnet ; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electro-magnet. A constant voltaic battery, consisting of a few elements...
156 ページ - We can only further briefly allude to two of the most important modifications of his invention which Professor Wheatstone has made for specific purposes : — 1. By substituting for the paper disc on the circumference of which the letters are printed a thin disc of brass cut from the circumference to the centre, so as to form four-and-twenty springs, on the extremities of which types or punches are placed, and adding a mechanism, the detent of which, acted on...
224 ページ - He was a man of genius, as well as a good soldier; and, having contemplated some time on the subject, he invented the game of chess, as well for an amusement to his men, in their vacant hours, as to inflame their military ardour, — the game being wholly founded on the principles...
157 ページ - In the electro-magnetic clock, which was exhibited in action in the Apartments of the Society, all the parts employed in a clock for maintaining and regulating the power are entirely dispensed with. It consists simply of a face with its second, minute and hour hands, and of a train of wheels which communicate motion from the arbor of the...
224 ページ - ... his men in their vacant hours, as to inflame their military ardour, the game being wholly founded on the principles of war. The stratagem succeeded to his wish. The soldiery were delighted with the game, and forgot, in their daily contests for victory, the inconveniences of their post.
223 ページ - This advantage has the name of Nripakrishta, or recovered by the King ; and the Naukakrishta seems to be analogous to it, but confined to the case of ships. Fourthly, " If a Pawn can march to any square on the opposite extremity of the board, except that of the King or that of the Ship, he assumes whatever power belonged to that square ; and this promotion is called Shatpada, or the six strides.
157 ページ - ... the messages with scarcely a minute's instruction. The electro-magnetic clock of Professor Wheatstone is another of those singular inventions, and one which, though it may be less useful, is certainly not less ingenious and surprising than his telegraph. The object of the inventor was to enable a single clock to indicate exactly the same time in as many different places, distant from each other, as may be required. A standard clock in an observatory, for example, would thus keep in order another...
191 ページ - It will appear, however, that the Chinese pieces far exceed the proportion of ours, which occasions the whole force of the contest to fall on them, and thereby precludes the beauty and variety of our game, when reduced to a struggle between the pawns, who are capable of the highest promotion, and often change the fortune of the day. The posts of the Ping arc marked in front.
190 ページ - Brahmins were neither mistaken touching the board, which has a river in the middle to divide the contending parties, nor in the powers of the king, who is entrenched in a fort, and moves only in that space in every direction ; but, what I did not...
254 ページ - My enquiries teach me that in this instance also a name has been formed from a quality ; and that in modern Persian rookh means facing or bearing in a direct line ; and applied to the rookh at chess, and its moves, is very appropriate ; at the same time I have...

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