Chess Fundamentals

Sept. 1, 1934

LIST OF CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTER I
First Principles: Endings, Middle-game and Openings
	PAGE
1. Some Simple Mates	[3]
2. Pawn Promotion	[9]
3. Pawn Endings	[13]
4. Some Winning Positions in the Middle-game	[19]
5. Relative Value of the Pieces	[24]
6. General Strategy of the Opening	[25]
7. Control of the Centre	[28]
8. Traps	[32]
CHAPTER II
Further Principles in End-game Play
9. A Cardinal Principle	[35]
10. A Classical Ending	[37]
11. Obtaining a Passed Pawn	[40]
12. How to find out which Pawn will be the first to Queen	[41]
13. The Opposition	[43]
14. The Relative Value of Knight and Bishop	[50]
15. How to Mate with Knight and Bishop	[59]
16. Queen against Rook	[62]
CHAPTER III
Planning a Win in Middle-game Play
17. Attacking without the aid of Knights	[68]
18. Attacking with Knights as a Prominent Force	[71]
19. Winning by Indirect Attack	[75]
CHAPTER IV
General Theory
20. The Initiative	[77]
21. Direct Attacks en masse	[78]
22. The Force of the Threatened Attack	[82]
23. Relinquishing the Initiative	[89]
24. Cutting off Pieces from the Scene of Action	[94]
25. A Player's Motives Criticised in a Specimen Game	[99]
CHAPTER V
End-game Strategy
26. The Sudden Attack from a Different Side	[111]
27. The Danger of a Safe Position	[120]
28. Endings with one Rook and Pawns	[122]
29. A Difficult Ending: Two Rooks and Pawns	[127]
30. Rook, Bishop and Pawns v. Rook, Knight and Pawns (A Final Example of preserving Freedom whilst imposing restraint.)	[138]
CHAPTER VI
Further Openings and Middle-games
31. Some Salient Points about Pawns	[143]
32. Some Possible Developments from a Ruy Lopez (showing the weakness of a backward Q B P; the power of a Pawn at K 5, etc.)	[146]
33. The Influence of a "Hole"	[150]
PART II
ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES
GAME.
1. Queen's Gambit Declined (Match, 1909) White: F. J. Marshall. Black: J. R. Capablanca.	[159]
2. Queen's Gambit Declined (San Sebastian, 1911) White: A. K. Rubinstein. Black: J. R. Capablanca.	[163]
3. Irregular Defence (Havana, 1913) White: D. Janowski. Black: J. R. Capablanca.	[169]
4. French Defence (St. Petersburg, 1913) White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: E. A. Snosko-Borovski.	[174]
5. Ruy Lopez (St. Petersburg, 1914) White: Dr. E. Lasker. Black: J. R. Capablanca.	[181]
6. French Defence (Rice Memorial Tournament, 1916) White: O. Chajes. Black: J. R. Capablanca.	[189]
7. Ruy Lopez (San Sebastian, 1911) White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: A. Burn.	[197]
8. Centre Game (Berlin, 1913) White: J. Mieses. Black: J. R. Capablanca.	[201]
9. Queen's Gambit Declined (Berlin, 1913) White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: R. Teichmann.	[209]
10. Petroff Defence (St. Petersburg, 1914) White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: F. J. Marshall.	[215]
11. Ruy Lopez (St. Petersburg, 1914) White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: D. Janowski.	[221]
12. French Defence (New York, 1918) White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: O. Chajes.	[225]
13. Ruy Lopez (New York, 1918) White: J. S. Morrison. Black: J.R. Capablanca.	[231]
14. Queen's Gambit Declined (New York, 1918) White: F. J. Marshall. Black: J.R. Capablanca.	[238]

PART I

CHAPTER I

First Principles: Endings, Middle-Game and Openings