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

CABLE MATCII, a match in whi.h moves are
transmirted by elecdc telegraph and for whicn 1he
players are present throughout the playi.g sesion.
The most famous mat hes oi lhis kind were
hetween Great Bntai. and the USA. The nrst.
b.tween the Bntish Chess Club and the Manhartan
Chess Club in 1895, was mar.ed by inexpenence ol
the nediumi oiny aboul 22 moves were played in
each orthe ten camesi one pas agreed drawn and
the retcree Emantrel usER adjldicaled the otne6
as drawn. The series n regarded as taving begun
yith ihe 1896m.tch and as timcwcntbythe teams
cane to be looked upon as national sides. The
@mpctiton i.cluded hNur, P[LsBwr, and
SEO{^LIM IOI thc USA, A'(NS. BUCXBURTE,
UURN and MAsoN for Creal Brilain. Thheen
natches sere played. The senes ended wben
Britain won in three.otuecu(le yeas (i909-11)
and rerained the cup presented by sn ceorse
Newnes (1851-1910). In loral rhe s@re in Eames
was 64164. in natches one drawn and six Nins each.
A series of Anglo Ane.ican univesity nat.hes
was played 1899 1903, 1906-10, and 1924i each
side Non Iourand thrce Nere drasn. F.om 1926 to
1931 a series ol matches Nas played belween
London and a city ot rhe Uniled Statos. A match
belween the Houe ofCommons andthe Honse oI
Representativcs in 1897 was drawn (2i:2i).
cAFf DE LA RtcENcD, Paris. one of tnc mon
tanous meeling places for chesvplaye.s. In tbe
second halfofthe r&h ce.tn.y and the frst halJ ot
rhe 19lh it was f.equented by LEGALL, psrlrDon.
and SAiNr_AMANT as
well .s amateurs sucn as VoltaiE. Rouseau.
Robespiefe. FtuN(r-rN. and Napoleo.. Its lan
g.eat days were in tbe 1850s Nhen MoipHy played
ihere. Che ss con tinued ro be played cven aier lhe
Cif€ was relocared bul has not been encou.aged
since the Second World Wr. Lite Sidpson s in
l,ndon and ihe Cafe Doninik in Sl Peretrburg ils
glory sas in the 19th century.
CAISSA, the muse o! goddess of chess, origidally a
nynph in a poem of rhar nane composed in 1753 by
sir willian Jones (174G94). He modened his
pocm on vroat S.u..i,u ad6 in whicb the
nymph is called Sca@his. Mars, whose love for tnc
nymph is noheturned, persuades the eod ofstorr
to invent a came (chc$) thar misht soften her
hcart. Jones pnblhhed this and orher poens ofbn
youth i.1772i tater he eamed distinc(on asiurisl
and orientalist. AJter a description ofihcgamc the
A lovely Dryad rang'd the Thncian wild,
Her air enchatins, and bcr aspecr nild:
To.h6c ihc bou.ding ha ws all her joy.
AdverE from Hymen ed rbe Cwnanboy:
O er hils and vaUcF was hei beauty ram'd,
And faii caissa was rhe dmsel nam d.
CALABRTAN COI]NTER.GAMBII, 33?, GiVCN
byrcLE{o, naned alter c{E.o\ homeland,itwas
analysed in detail by {LGNER. This dubions
detcnce has had no place in mastcr chess lor nore
CALABRIAN GAMBIT, 604i the crEco c^MBIr.
CALVL IGNAZIO (1797 1872), llalian player
and composer. Duridg a stay of about 14yeds in
France as a political relugee hc became a leadine
player.t the cAFi DE r.A R6aEN.Ea.d drew anat h
with KrEsrRnzxr (+7:l ,l in 1845. His many
contributions to ae Pak-ale include openi.gs
analyses and his own @6posirions. Returning to
Italyin 18,18he joinedthe army,.oselorherank oI
major, retnedin 1862, and, putting to use his early
trainins in chemistry, becane a pharmacist.
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A versio. oI a study by Calvi ( Le Polomi.le. 1836)
sbowing. perhaps lor tbe 6st tine, 1wo diiferenl
lg8:NBxe3 2h8=B Nd4 3
Ne? B(D 4 Nds. and not 2 h8=O? Nd4 3 Ne?
Nc2+ 4 Bxc2 Bd4+ 5 Oxd4 stalemate.
CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS DEFENCE, 90. sone
times caled rhe Pillsbur! Variation, in the auElN s
GAMBr Declined. Black counlerattacks on lhc
queen\ side, Nhich cannot bedelendedbyWhile s
DARX BrsHop lor rhisisouiside the P wN-.E^rNon
lhe other side. Inhoduced by LAscR in a gane
against Alberi Beauregard Hodses (1861-19a4) in
1892 and Dlayed by prLLsBURy in the Nurcmbers