Chivalrously and gallantly

It is proper to mention that Mr. Brodie chivalrously entered the lists as a provisional combatant, pending the arrival of Mr. Schumoff, who was hourly expected from St. Petersburgh; and although he was unfortunate in being cast to play against so practised an antagonist, he sustained his place gallantly, and was not ingloriously defeated. Howard Staunton, “The Chess Tournament”, Londra, Harrison and son, 1852, p. 15