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THE
SECOND MEETING
was held at Wakefield on the 8th
of November, 1841, whither, on the appointed day, came the athletae of
Yorkshire to contend under the presidency of the Rev. E. C. Tyson.
M.A. Thirty-six players .entered the lists; among whom was Mr. Rhodes,
the acknowledged champion of the county. The chess boards were put
into requisition from ten until six o’clock, at which latter hour,
the party consisting of more than fifty, adjourned for dinner. Mr. F.
W. Cronhelm, of Halifax, occupied the vice-chair. In proposing “Success
to the Yorkshire Chess Association,” he took occasion to descant on
the resemblance which existed between chess manoeuvres and military
tactics. Among other points, he noticed that in chess, as in war, the
attack should be made on the opponent’s weakest point; that, as in
ancient times, Scipio had rendered himself immortal by carrying the war
into the enemy’s country, so in the counter attack at chess, the player
had often a powerful resource, and that he might also, according to his
temperament, adopt the wary policy of a Fabius, or the brilliant and
impetuous attacks of Marcellus. Among other speakers was the Rev. R. Garvey,
who observed that he had formerly belonged to a philosophical society in
which science was treated like play; he had joined the Chess Association
instead, and in it he beheld play really turned into science.
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