Letters on Chess: Containing an Account of Some of the Principal Works on that Celebrated Game, with Copious Extracts and Remarks

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Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1848 - 134 páginas
 

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Página 86 - Philidor himself notes also, being of opinion that an entire collection of the games he has played without looking over the chess board would not be of any service to amateurs, he will only publish a few parties which he has played against three players at once, subjoining the names of his respectable adversaries in order to prove and transmit to posterity a fact of which future ages might otherwise entertain some doubt.
Página 52 - KP two squares 2 K. Kt. to B. third 2 Q. Kt. to B. third 3 KB to QB fourth 3 KB to QB fourth 4 QBP one square 4 K.
Página 126 - White. 1. KP two sq. 1. KP two sq. 2. KBP two sq. 2. P. takes P. 3. K. Kt. to B. third. 3. K. Kt. P. two sq.
Página 33 - WHITE. BLACK. 1. KP two sq. 1. KP two sq. 2. KB to QB fourth. 2. KB to QB fourth. 3. QBP one sq. 3. Q. to King's second.
Página 51 - KP two squares 2 Q. Kt. to B. third 3 KB to QB fourth 4 K. Kt. to B. third 5 P takes P.
Página 95 - THE KING'S BISHOP'S OPENING. (So called because the first player places his King's Bishop at QB fourth square, on the second move.) WHITE. BLACK. 1. KP two sq. 1. KP two sq. 2. KB to QB fourth. 2. KB to QB fourth. 3. QBP one sq. 3. Q. to King's second. 4. QP one sq. 4. QP one sq. 5. K. Kt. to B. third. 5. K. Kt. to B. third.
Página 51 - KP two squares 2 K. Kt. to B. third 3 KB to QB fourth 4 QBP one square , 5 QP two squares 6 P.
Página 48 - QP one sq. 8. K. Kt. to Q. third. 8. P. to KB sixth. 9. P. takes P. 9.
Página 86 - PIIILIDOIl being of opinion that an entire collection of the games he has played without looking over the chess,board would not be of any service to amateurs, he will only publish a few parties which he has played against three players at onc,e, subjoining the names of his respectable adversaries, in order to prove, and transmit to posterity, a fact, of which future ages might otherwise entertain aome...

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