Excerpt from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6: January, 1896And Their Latest Developments. With comparisons of chess Openings of the past century and the present, not dealt with in existing works. By H. E. Bird. With diagrams. 12mo, cloth, To the chess expert Mr. Bird's book is indispensable. This book is a study of tabooed Openings, showing their mer1ts. -new York World.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.