[Event "British Chess Championship"]   [Site "Stratford-Upon-Avon"]   [Date "28.08.1925"]   [Round "11"]   [White "Atkins, HE"]   [Black "Saunders"]   [Result "1/2-1/2"]   [Annotator ""]   [Variant ""]   [ECO "E90"]       1.d4   {  To show our simple skill,   That is the true beginning.}   1...Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d6   {  ... to climb steep hills   Requires slow pace at first.}   4.e4 Bg7   {  To be direct and honest is not safe.}   5.Nf3 Nc6 6.h3   {  ... to be forestalled ere we come to fall.}   6...0-0 7.Be3 Nd7   {  ... retire into your trenches.}   8.Qd2 e5 9.d5   {  My purpose, is, indeed, a horse of that colour.}   9...Ncb8   {  There is no virtue like necessity.   The better part of valour is discretion.}   10.Bh6   {  By the pricking of my thumbs   Something wicked this way comes.}   10...f5   {  Though this be madness,   yet there is method in't.}   11.Bxg7   {  The ripest fruit falls first.}   11...Kxg7   {  . . . would be rid of such an enemy.}   12.exf5 gxf5   {  ... food for powder, food for powder}   13.Be2 a5 14.g4   {  Playing the mouse in absence of the cat.}   14...Nc5 15.gxf5 Bxf5 16.0-0-0 Nba6 17.Rdg1+   {  Sits the wind in that corner ?}   17...Kh8   {  Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;}   18.Qe3 Qf6 19.a3   {  Instinct is a great matter;   I was a coward on instinct.}   19...Bg6 20.Rg5   {  Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.}   20...Nb4   {  Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps ...   ... to the noble mind   Rich gifts wax poor   when givers prove unkind.}   21.Nh4   {  When I shun Scylla, your father,   I fall into Charybdis, your mother.}   21...Nb3+   {  Stand not upon the order of your going,   But go at once.}   22.Kd1   {  My grief lies onward and my joy behind.}   22...Bc2+   {  Courage mounteth with occasion}   23.Ke1   {  Something is rotten in the state of Denmark}   23...Be4   {  Cassio, I love thee;   But never more be officer of mine.}   24.Qxe4   {  ... it goes much against my stomach}   24...Qxf2+   {  Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive.}   25.Kd1   {  One woe doth tread upon an-   other's heel, So fast they follow.}   25...Rf4   {  The Gordian knot of it he will unloose.}   26.Rf1   {  Hoist with his own petar.}   26...Qd4+   {  Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.   There is a tide in the affairs of men,   Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;   Omitted, all the voyage of their life   Is bound in shallows and in miseries.}   27.Qxd4   {  What's gone and what's past help   Should be past grief}   27...Rxd4+ 28.Ke1   {  . . . to fear the worst oft cures the worse.}   28...Nc2+ 29.Kf2   {  True hope is swift,   and flies with swallow's wings.}   29...Rxh4   {  If it were done when 'tis done,   then 'twere well It were done quickly.}   30.Kg3   {  ... naked as I am, I will assault thee.}   30...Rf4 31.Rxf4   {  Off with his head!}   31...exf4+ 32.Kxf4   {  ... there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.}   32...Ncd4 33.Rg2 Rd8   {  Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.}   34.Bg4 h6 35.Bd1 Nc5 36.Rd2 Rf8+ 37.Kg4   {  The eagle suffers little birds to sing.}   37...Rg8+   1/2-1/2