The Chess Players Companion Comprising A New Treatise On Odds And A Collection Of Games Contested By The Author With Various Distinguished Players During The Last Ten Years Including The Great French Match With Mons St Amant

Author : Howard Staunton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527944855
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The Chess-Player's Companion written by Howard Staunton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds, and a Collection of Games Contested by the Author With Various Distinguished Players During the Last Ten Years No odds were yielded, and in accordance with the practice of other authors, he commenced with the analytical examination of the first moves in attack and'defence, illustrating them as he proceeded by examples from the contests of distinguished players. In this, on the contrary, his attention has been chiefly directed to the exposition of openings where one party gives odds; and he has attempted to diversify the prescriptive routine in books of the kind by beginning with the games which have been actually played, and leading the student through them to the more laborious, though to many not less attractive, task of theoretical analysis. With this object, he has 'brought together the majority of recorded games con tested by him' during the past ten years with the leading players of the time. These comprise many eminently structive examples where a Rock or a Knight are given, and a large and varied collection at the favourite odds of the Pawn and Two Moves, and the Pawn and Move. In addition to the games at odds are many notable parties upon even terms, including those of the celebrated French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.