It is always unwise to underrate an antagonist, and there is no use talking, Alfred Tennyson will make the discovery in sadness, sooner or later, that chess, after all, is like buckwheat cakes at breakfast. Both demand pretty much an undivided devotion from their votaries and are apt to get it, too if we are not more careful than we want to be.
Saint Paul Daily Globe 2/8/1885 (Vol VII No 39) (https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn90059522/1885-02-08/ed-1/seq-6)