chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

10 ALTCE CHESS
ILICE c[Ess, an unorihodo! gatue inyenied in priest. but while $avelling in Poland dnovered
1954 by the EnBlish compGer vemon Rylands cness. He went to live in vionna, opoated the reR(
Pa o.(1897 1974) a.d named afier rhe p.incipal fo. a tine, won a. imporlatrl nalcn, and became
characreri. Lewis Carroll's lr?tough he Lookinq- chess tulor to the Emperor's $ns and b.olbe6. A
gl6s. Two boardsandone setolnenarerequired. big shong nan, he gaided respecl lor his dnecl and
Every time a man is noved on one board it is honesl nanner. He served as quartemaste.
transtered (lhrough lhe niror) to the other board accountant in tbc Austrian army ftom 179810 i 816.
asilithadthereconpletcditsmovciamovereeds andafte.hh reti.enenr became the strcngeslchcss
to be legal only on lhe board lron which the moved maler in Vienna, shere be nade a living fron
nan departs, but the square on the other board to che$ lesonsandsla*e 8ames. Like DESCEAELLB
*hich the nan is lraNtered nust be unoc.upied; a and BoURDoNNA]S hc dicd of dropsy.
Allgaiels mosl oulslanding wo.k was Nc,c
orher board. 'l he game sta.is lrom lhe ARMY with theorctuch-plaktische AnweisaE zum khachsPiel
man on one board cannot capture a man on the
all ihe men otr oneboard. Sone exanples folloN. (1795). He Published revised edilions in 1802.
,NtlJ5 . l8ll "nd
l8'o, rnd .e\eral orher edirionr were
2.4.whirc\.tr dmove,\tegnt ti\hn p;btnhed aher hn dedrh. fhe 6Rl \).remrttr
king'..lnigtr h.s beeo tr.nrleEed r. 1 nn rhe ireane in rhe Cerman taltuaee. rt ont;rtu mrh
other board '
userut playinS advne anij n"aniopenings lariations
lNc3d5 2g3e6 3 Bh3 Oxd2 (!his is not check) 4 wirh derailed annotations. Allgaicr stres*s his
Be3. Black cansave his qEefl o.ly by movin8it lo prcfcrc.@ for a kingt side maiodty ol Pawns. a
92.
shared by his co.tempo.aries (Theideadat,
"ieN
1d4e5 2dre5Bc7 3Oxd7Qd4 413 Bh4 na!e. A
cbcck f.om a line-piece can neler be mer by lhc
inlerposidon of a oan on the samc board while 5
Kdl, (d2. or KO Nould lea,e Whire s king in
check afier tra.sferal. This is an Alice male' ol
lhe kind required by problemists: rlrcHrs a.e
guarded on the otncr board.
other things being equal, a queen\ side najonty
mjght be prcfcrablc was nol moolcd until the
18,10s.) In l8ll lhe openings we.e p.inted i.
rrbnlarf.m ,n inn.varion thrthrssin.e he.ome
cuslonary: in 1819 he a.alysed the gambilnamed
aftcr him and the Alckhine Defcncc. Although lhis
bookwas.ot widely read in England andFrance il
was rightly regarded in several parts of Europe as
lhe best lexlbook ol its rioe.
ALLDGORIES, storics osrensibly about chess but
ained at otber targets. Medieval chess MoMLms ALLGAIER GAMDIT, 618, in the (rcis c^Mdr
freqtrenlly took this fom. A lamous political A@pled, tine played;round 1780 by rhe Edglish
allegory pas a play, G4n. ar Cip's by Thomas man aorler. afie. whom it is omeiimcs nairea.
Middleton. Acld at thf Glote ih*tre in about wh ite sac.ifices a knighl in the hope of obl aining a
1624,theplaytookll,500hninedays,.8rea1sum strone atrack. Angai;r was the drst ro publisti a
ror rheiires, before,t aasslppEssed by ordsol deraiied anatysis,
"which appeared ifl tlie lourth
James l. Ihe althor ol this vciled_altack on the edition ofhis book, t8t9i6'; yeaE later his main
Roman Caiholic Chuch a.d ihe Spmish_ qown lne was .etuted by tbe sonNt ;EFENCE, 622. Some
was imprisoned, and he obliined his treedon by dme aierwards ihe wArER ArAc(, 619, and
peiitiotritrg the king:
A HaE 6s ganc, coin'd only foi deligh.,
wE pray d ,eirt rhe Black house and the $lite.
The white house *oni vet ill rhe Blach dorh bru!.
Thcy had .hc po*cr ro pul nc in rie bl8
Use bnl yonr Royal hand. rvill *t Be tee.
'Tis bnl rhe rcnoving oI a ron-rh.as dc.
(Sce aho .Essolr, a.Hrcs ^MouEUx,
cBrA
RoM^NoRUM, and rNN@ENr MoMIn.)
ALLEN, GEORGE (1808-76), Amcrican
professor or Greek who arore The Lif. of Pnilidot,
muicion ond ch*eptalet lB58). A repnnt ol the
second Anencan ednion (1863) N6 published in
1971. Alle. had an cxcelle.t chess lib.ary. which
was acquned by lhe Library Company oi Pbil
adelphia, and he contnbured scholarly itens to
vanous ches periodicals. He sssrand-ncphcwor
Etnan Allcn. bero olrhe American revolutio..
ALLGAIER, JOTL{NN BAPTIST (176}1823).
player and auihor. He was born in southern
Germ2nv and iniende{l rn hemme, a2iholi.
621, save new lite 10 rhe
Camhit, wnich, howevcr, has ncrcr bccn so
populd as Wlire s alternariye cboice. ihe n$Ek-
AI-LIES, two or noie playes in odsultadon
taking either the white or black pieces.
ALL-PLAY.ALL, or Amcrican tourraoenl, a
co.test in whicb each contestant plays every olher
contcstanl once, twice (a doubleiound touriamen!),
or more dmes. It sd once thought that
snch a system woDld not vork becausc as soon as a
player was out ol the ruming he wo d not play at
full srrenslh or even at all. This happened in rhe
6rt inlernarional tournamenr of ihis kind. wnich
beg in London on 28 July l85li
quicklyronselenganes and took the only
^NDERSSEN prize, a
gold or silvercu, valued al l00guineas, while the
othe. competitom played a mer€ handtul of Camcs
belseen tbenselves. Nevertheless. knock-out
lourn.menrs, ihen tashionable, were soon
supcncdcdbyall-day-all elerls,sbichwere faner