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Excerpt from The Chess Tournament: A Collection of the Games Played at This Celebrated Assemblage, Illustrated by Copious Diagrams, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory Advantages of a Congress of Chess-pie ers.-the importance of fine games. - Anomalous character of the was of Chess. -italian play. The law relative to fifty moves. - False moves. - Castling at odds. Benefit of some fixed system of notation. - Limitation of time ex pended upon p...

Excerpt from The Great Schools of England: An Account of the Foundation, Endowments, and Discipline of the Chief Seminaries of Hearing in EnglandThe present compilation was intended in the first instance to consist of little more than a reprint of some articles on our chief Public Schools, which appeared a few years since in a leading newspaper. The publication of the Evidence given before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Revenu...

Excerpt from The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds, and a Collection of Games Contested by the Author With Various Distinguished Players During the Last Ten Years No odds were yielded, and in accordance with the practice of other authors, he commenced with the analytical examination of the first moves in attack and'defence, illustrating them as he proceeded by examples from the contests of distinguished players. In t...

Excerpt from The Chess-Player's Text Book: A Concise and Easy Introduction to the Game, Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Instructive SituationsBeing intended only for beginners, they are divested as much as possible of whatever might appear perplexing or repulsive and the examples for study presented in the order conceived to be the most natural and easy for apprehension.To profit fully by these examples the learner will do well, when he is...

Excerpt from The Chess Tournament: A Collection of the Games Played at This Celebrated Assemblage, Illustrated by Copious Diagrams, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory Advantages of a Congress of Chess-pie ers.-the importance of fine games. - Anomalous character of the was of Chess. -italian play. The law relative to fifty moves. - False moves. - Castling at odds. Benefit of some fixed system of notation. - Limitation of time ex pended upon p...

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Excerpt from The Chess-Player's Handbook Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns and for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different colour to those of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an i...

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Excerpt from Chess Praxis, a Supplement to the Chess Player's Handbook: Containing All the Most Important Modern Improvements in the Openings, Illustrated by Actual Games, A Revised Code of Chess Laws, And a Collection of Mr. Morphy's Matches, &C., , In England and France A lar e assembly of En lisia amateurs at Manchester in 1853, under the me o the Northern and Midland Counties Chess Association, ' again brought the matter under considerati...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

A supplement to the Chess Player's Handbook, containing all the most important modern improvements in the openings, illustrated by actual games, a revised code of chess laws, and a collection of Mr. Morphy's matches, &c., , in England and France. This is a reprint of the 1891 edition of "Chess Praxis" by Howard Staunton. This book contains so much valuable information about chess and chess players that it has never gone out and never will go o...

The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise On Odds, and a Collection of Games Contested by the Author with Various Distinguished Players during the last ten years including the Great French Match with Mons. St. Amant, to Which Are Added a Selection of new and instructive problems. This is the third in a series of three books by Howard Staunton, who is considered to have been the best player in the world at that time. The current b...

Excerpt from The Chess Player's Chronicle for 1848: Containing Upwards of Three Hundred and Fifty Games and Problems by the Most Eminent Players B. Herr and 0. W. Bell, Captain J. And Donaldson, Mr. Bird, H. And C. F. Smith, Messrs. Bledow, Dr. And Hanstein, Herr Bodcn, 8. Mr. And Amateur Bnown, J. And E. Williams, Messrs. Buckle and Harrwitz, Messrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...

Excerpt from The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds, and a Collection of Games Contested by the Author With Various Distinguished Players During the Last Ten Years No odds were yielded, and in accordance with the practice of other authors, he commenced with the analytical examination of the first moves in attack and'defence, illustrating them as he proceeded by examples from the contests of distinguished players. In t...

Excerpt from The Great Schools of England: An Account of the Foundation, Endowments, and Discipline of the Chief Seminaries of Hearing in EnglandThe present compilation was intended in the first instance to consist of little more than a reprint of some articles on our chief Public Schools, which appeared a few years since in a leading newspaper. The publication of the Evidence given before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Revenu...

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