Studies of Chess; Containing Caissa, a Poem, by Sir W. Jones a Systematic Introduction to the Game and the Whole Analysis of Chess, by A.D. Philidor - Tapa blanda

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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. 1817 Excerpt: ... White. Black. 1. Bishop to Qb4. (a) King to kn. 3. 2. King to B4. King returns to B3. (a) The mate must be given in a corner square of the colour on which the bishop moves; and when the adverse king retires to the angle differently coloured, the stroke is effected by a gradual process of eighteen 01 twenty moves. 3. Knight to Qb3. King to kn. 3. 4. Knight to K4. (b), King to R3. 5. King to adv. Kb4. King to R2. (c) 6i King to adv. Kb3. King to R. (4) 7. Knight to adv. Q3. King to. x, 8. Knighttotfcfo. KB2.(e) King to kn. sq. (f) 9. Bishop to Q3. King to B. 10. Bishop to adv. Kr2. King to 1. 11. Knight to adv. K4. King to B. (g) 12. Knight to adv.Q2,ckg. King to 1. 13. King to adv. 3. King to Q. 14. King to adv. Q3. King to 1. 15. Bishop gives check. King to Q. 16. Bishop to adv. Kb2. King to Qb. 17-Knight to adv. Qb4. King to Q. (6) The office of the knight is to exclude the adverse king from the squares which are out of the bishop's field. (c) If he had played to rook's fourth, you must have given check with the bishop; and should he then pass to that quarter of the board which has a corner square of your bishop's colour, you will mate him in a few moves. (d) If he had moved to rook's third, you must have played bishop to king's second, to compel him to the black angle, whence your knight will soon dislodge him. (e) From this position, the mate is forced in about eighteen or twenty moves. (/) The knight prevents his king from returning to the corner. The process is, to exclude him with the knight from the black squares, and with the bishop from the white ones. (g) In the Back Game, kirig to queens square. 18. Knight to adv. Qk2, King to Qb. chg. 19. King to adv. Qb3. King to Qk. 20. King to adv. Qk3. King to Qb. 21. Bishop gives check. King to Qk. . 22. ...