PREFACE TO NEW REVISED EDITION.
The following work is designed for those who are learning the noble game of Chess.
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
The chief aim of the Editor of these pages has been to avoid this fault, by simplifying the openings, and by giving to the student chiefly such moves as are recognized to be the best, both in attack and defence. By playing over carefully the illustrative games, the learner will also see, at each opening, the variations made by experienced players in accordance with circumstances. As great a variety of actually played games has been given as was possible in a work of such limited scope. To this end the games of the distinguished players of different nations have been introduced, classified according to the different openings; and thus the reader will find the combined genius and skill of the old heroes like Philidor, Morphy, Staunton, Anderssen, Harrwitz, Evans, Montgomery and Cochrane, together with such recent masters as Lasker, Steinitz, Schlechter, Pillsbury, Marshall, Tarrasch, Janowsky, Tchigorin, and many other players of world-wide celebrity. The basis of this work is Staunton's "Chess Player's Handbook;" but other standard books have been drawn upon to fit it to be a manual for the beginner of to-day.
In order to insure perfect accuracy, all the lessons and games have been carefully gone over on the board after being put in type.
NAMES OF PLAYERS.
| ANDERSSEN, [91], [93], [98], [165], [206], [207], [212], [214]. | MARACHE, [94], [110]. |
| BIERWIRTH, [200]. | MARSHALL, [190]. |
| BLEDOW, [132], [140]. | MEAD, [92]. |
| BOUCHER, [57]. | MEEK, [110]. |
| BUCKLE, [86]. | MONTGOMERY, [80], [184], [201], [206], [208], [209]. |
| CAPDEBO, [79]. | MORPHY, [57], [58], [59], [60], [65], [91], [94], [98], [200], [203], [206], [207], [210], [211], [212], [214]. |
| CHENEY, [85]. | NEW YORK, [108], [109], [202]. |
| CLEMENTS, [204]. | PERIGAL, [178]. |
| COCHRANE, [72], [111], [125], [166]. | PETROFF, [66], [73]. |
| DANIELS, [126]. | PHILADELPHIA, [108], [109], [202]. |
| DER LAZA, [96], [140], [141], [159]. | PHILIDOR, [60]. |
| DESCHAPELLES, [111]. | PILLSBURY, [67], [188]. |
| DESLOGES, [180]. | PINDAR, [201]. |
| EVANS, [114], [135], [136], [166]. | POPERT, [85], [122], [141]. |
| GHULAM CASSIM, [161]. | POTIER, [65]. |
| HARRWITZ, [58], [59], [79], [86], [113], [210], [211]. | PRETI, [203]. |
| HENDERSON, [114]. | ROUSSEAU, [131]. |
| HILLEL, [93]. | SCHLECHTER, [188]. |
| HORWITZ, [80], [83], [114], [132]. | SCHULTEN, [132]. |
| JAENISCH, [73]. | ST. AMANT, [84], [136], [137]. |
| JANOWSKY, [190]. | STANLEY, [131]. |
| JONES, Dr., [208], [209]. | STAUNTON, [72], [80], [83], [84], [113], [122], [125], [162], [179]. |
| KIESERITZKY, [180]. | STEINITZ, [99], [213]. |
| KIPPING, [165]. | SZEN, [159]. |
| LA BOURDONNAIS, [124], [161], [177], [178]. | TARRASCH, [199]. |
| LASKER, [99], [199]. | TCHIGORIN, [67]. |
| LEWIS, Dr., [204]. | THOMPSON, [206]. |
| LEWIS, Mr., [158]. | VON BILGUER, [132]. |
| McADAM, [184]. | WALKER, [126], [137]. |
| McCABE, [80]. | ZUKERTORT, [213]. |
| McDONNELL, [124], [161], [177], [178]. |
CONTENTS.
| Chapter I. | Introduction | [Page 7] |
| The Chess-Board and Men—Moves and Powers of the Pieces and Pawns—Notation Used to Describe their Movements—Technical Terms of Chess—Illustrations of Technical Terms—Relative Value of the Chess Forces—The Chess Code, or, Laws of the Game—General Rules and Observations—Maxims and Advice for an Inexperienced Player—Preliminary Game. | ||
| II. | King's Knight's Opening | [51-115] |
| Damiano Gambit, [52]; Philidor's Defence, [54]; Petroff's Defence, [61]; Counter Gambit in the Knight's Opening, [68]; The Giuoco Piano, [74]; Captain Evans's Gambit, [88]; The Two Knights' Defence, [95]; The Knight's Game of Ruy Lopez, [97]; The Queen's Pawn Game, or Scotch Gambit, [101]; The Queen's Bishop's Pawn Game in the King's Knight's Opening, [116]. | ||
| III. | The King's Bishop's Opening | [116-137] |
| The Two Kings' Bishops' Game, [116]; McDonnell's Double Gambit, [120]; The Lopez Gambit, [121]; The King's Knight's Defence in King's Bishop's Opening, [127]; Counter Gambit in the King's Bishop's Opening, [128]; The Queen's Bishop's Pawn's Defence in the King's Bishop's Opening, [130]; Queen's Bishop's Pawn's Opening, [134]. | ||
| IV. | The King's Gambit | [138-184] |
| The King's Gambit proper, or King's Knight's Gambit, [138]; The Cunningham Gambit, [142]; The Salvio Gambit, [144]; The Cochrane Gambit, [146]; The Muzio Gambit [152]; The Allgaier Gambit, [162]; The King's Rook's Pawn Gambit, [164]; The King's Bishop's Gambit, [166]; The Gambit Declined, [180]. | ||
| V. | The Queen's Gambit | [185-191] |
| The Gambit refused, [188]. | ||
| VI. | Irregular Openings | [192-214] |
| The French Game, [192]; The Sicilian Game, [193]; The Wing Gambit, [194]; The Centre Counter Gambit, [195]; The Fianchetto, [196], Steinitz Gambit, [213]. | ||
| VII. | Endings of Games | [215] |
| Chess Problems | [248] |