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

348 TELEPHONE CTIESS
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Game played by .clcgmDh, 9 Apnl 1345 , b€ rwccn S k u nton a0 d Ke n kdy near Ponsmourh a.'l nve or sn' opponent
in London The game lEred eishi hous.
Tbe 68r games using si8nals.r sea were between
rhe ships Barham and Wellesler on a pa$agc from
lndia 10 London in 1853.
Thc 6st eledric telegraph natch \ras in 1844
between washi.stonand B.lrinore, jusrlinkedby
the n6t Anencan telegraph line, In 1858 srAUNroNoferedtorlayMoRpnybyibeneNtansallantic
cable. Fortunately the challenSe arived ailer
Morphy had lefi lor England, for the cable failed
after a nonth and was not su.cesfnlly replaced
until1866. Stau.ton, a keen advocale ollelegraph
chess, was one of the players i. the first Eurcpean
same played in that way {hen he and an ally, in
cosporr, played a lead oI opponents in Londoni
April 18.15.
Thecarliestgame ptayed by neans of subnanne
cable was between Liverpool che$ club and
Dublid Libiary Clubin t!61. Thesasc Liverpool
club look part in the li6t inrercontinenlaL nalch,
playi.gcalcurtain1880 1tthiswasnotplayedata
snting, lhe tele8raph being used io repla@ the
nail. The a8e of the CABLE MArcr had adved a.d
at Iirsl there were confliding rransmission codes
until GRrNcMUl! Nor^noN becane standard.
TELDPEONE CHESS. games lor vhi.h the moves
are transmittcdbytclephone, Nually wilh lhe line
betNeen opponents open thoughout the gane(s).
The 6rst such sane documentcd was played i, Jan
1878 between F. Tbompson and J. Cooper sepa
ralcd by the three miles heNeen Belper and
Mi lford i n D e.byshire In March 188,1arelephone
natch was played belween Cardiff ahd Swansea.
Theorganizational problems are similar lo lhose in
TELECRApH .Hrss $hich is aore popular perhaps
because the printed evidene oI the noves linik
TEMPo (pl.lempi). rhe nnir oinME (1) Tolosea
iempo is !o play in n moves that shich could be
played in .-1 noves. Oc€sionally the loss oI a
tenpo is unimportant but lar more oflen ir is
dFadvantageoa The loss ot lhree rLmpi. uhich
mar hdppen 'n
a badly mishandled openinE, n
usually rcgarded as equivalenl lo 1he loss of a
To LosE A rEMrc does nor m
MovE, an endgame naneulre in which a player
inlentionally and to his advantage thrusts the move
(i.c. the rum to play) upon his oppone.t.
TIMPO-MOVE, a move of a pawn thal is nade or
beld in reseNe lor ihe purpose oilosing the movel
loosely, any other nove thardoes nol carry a diecl
tbreat. Tempo moves with p
fealurc of pawn endi.gs bul ra.ely si8li6ca.t in
olher kinds oI endgane. There nay be a linited
number oI such noves, lor the pasns may
evenluallv become blocked A player should
consene his own tenpo-moves and if possible
reduce the nunber available to his opponent.
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