Guillaume Le Breton Deschapelles

An unplanned trip to a wintry Vermont has prevented me from finishing
the work I had planned for this issue. Instead, I took the time to
copy a chapter from 'CHESS & CHESS-PLAYERS : consisting of Original
Stories and Sketches' by George Walker...

'The sceptre of chess, in Europe, has been for the last century, at
least, wielded by a Gallic dynasty. It has passed from Legalle to La
Bourdonnais, through the grasp, successively, of Philidor, Bernard,
Carlier, and Deschapelles. It is of the last-named potentate we are
about more particularly to speak, -- he being in every respect one of
the most extraordinary creations of the past or present day.'

...You can find the article, published in 1850, at...

Deschapelles : The Chess-King
http://mark_weeks.tripod.com/chw02b01/chw-2b01.htm

...I'll be back in two weeks with another site review.

Bye for now,
Mark Weeks

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