The chess-player's manual; A complete guide to chess containing the laws of the game according to the revised code laid down by the British Chess Association in 1862 - Softcover

Gossip, George Hatfield Dingley

9781130813456: The chess-player's manual; A complete guide to chess containing the laws of the game according to the revised code laid down by the British Chess Association in 1862

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ISBN 10: 1130813452 ISBN 13: 9781130813456

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...R to R 2 14. P to K B 4 And Black's game is again to be preferred. GAME THE SECOND. (rillLlDOR'S DEFENCE.) This move is noticed by Philidor, and for a long time was considered to be Black.s strongest defence; but of late years so many different attacks have been invented, that it has somewhat fallen into disfavour, and a growing tendency is observable to prefer P to Q 3, or B to K Kt 2. 6. B to Q B 4 6. P to Q 4 or (A.) 7. P takes P 7. B to Q 3 Black may play here 7. B to K Kt 2, a move which Herr Zukertort thinks he may make without disadvantage (see "Westminster Papers "); but the " Chess Player's Chronicle," p. 355, says it is a weak move, which must lead to certain loss on account of White's rejoinder, 8. P to Q 6. We cannot agree with the "Chess Players' Chronicle," on account of the following continuation:--P to Q 6 Q Kt takes K B P-" 10 B takes R (eh) n P takes P 12 Q to K 2 K takes B.QtoK2(ch). Q takes Q (ch) 13 K takes Q Kt to Q B 3, and Black has the advantage. 8. P to Q 4 8. Kt to K E 4 or (B.) Mr. Wisker gives the following opinion of this defence (see "Westminster Papers," February, 1873):--"The style of defence of which this and the three preceding moves are the essentials, was once deemed irresistible. Its popularity dated from the match between Messrs. Lowenthal and Harrwitz, in which the former employed it with decisive success, and it lived in favour long after the publication of Staunton's "Praxis." It is now as completely exploded as the Sicilian opening or the "Damiano Gambit." The Editor of the "Chess Players' Chronicle," however, entertains a diametrically opposite opinion (" Chess Player's Chronicle," June, 1873, p. 263). We believe that, althou...

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