The Game of Chess: A Play in One Act

STAGE GUILD PLAYS THE GAME OF CHESS
THE STAGE GUILD PLAYS & MASQUES
A PLAY IN ONE ACT
BY KENNETH SAWYER GOODMAN
NEW YORK VAUGHAN & GOMME MCMXIV
Copyright 1914 by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman All rights reserved
Notice: Application for permission to perform this play in the United States should be made to The Stage Guild, Railway Exchange Building, Chicago; and application for permission to perform it elsewhere should be made to Mr. B. Iden Payne, The Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, England. No performance of it may take place without consent of the owners of the acting rights.
THE GAME OF CHESS was first produced by B. Iden Payne under the auspices of the Chicago Theatre Society at the Fine Arts Theatre, November 18th, 1913, with the following caste:

The Scene is a wainscoted room in the house of ALEXIS. High windows at the back left; at the right back is a double door giving into an ante-room; against the right wall is a couch; in the left wall near the back is a small door; nearer the audience, on the same wall a chimney breast with a carved mantel; under the window, at the back, another couch and several chairs give the room a luxurious air. ALEXIS and CONSTANTINE are playing chess at a small table in front of an open fire. There is a large table in the centre of the stage with fruit, a flagon of wine and glasses.
ALEXIS. You seem to have lost your cunning, Constantine.
CONSTANTINE. Wait!