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. 1835 Excerpt: ...attacking, would, perhaps, do better to take the second Pawn; and then, retreating behind the lines of their camp, patiently await the assault of the enemy. Dismissing the Pawn and three moves, we come to the consideration of what may be termed a new description of Chess altogether. This is that remarkably curious game ...
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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. 1835 Excerpt: ...attacking, would, perhaps, do better to take the second Pawn; and then, retreating behind the lines of their camp, patiently await the assault of the enemy. Dismissing the Pawn and three moves, we come to the consideration of what may be termed a new description of Chess altogether. This is that remarkably curious game of odds so much played in Paris; and known there by the name of " La Partie des Pions;" or, THE GAME OF THE PAWNS. The inventor of this singular species of Chess was the celebrated M. de Legalle, Philidor's great initiator into the mysteries of our magic art. After the death of Legalle, this game was seldom played, until it was taken up some twenty years back by M. Le Breton Des Chapelles, the then first player of his time, though finally conquered by the now unrivalled La Bourdonnais. By Des Chapelles, this game 1 was considerably improved, and brought to high perfection; and it is a deserved favorite with the first-rate French players; though never, I believe, played in England until the visit of La Bourdonnais, in the summer of 1834. During that great Artist's stay here, he did me the favor to communicate the particulars of this curious variety of Chess, --a variety I had frequently heard mentioned by foreigners, though I had never had the good fortune to see it practised, --and M. de La Bourdonnais followed up his exposition of the theory, by playing a few games of this sort with me, in the Westminster Chess Club. I was struck alike with the beauty and novelty of many of the situations which arose out of these games, and feel great pleasure in now being enabled to give the Chess-world so complete a detail of the principles of the " Partie des Pions," that no one can be at a loss for further information on the theoretical...
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All Editions of A Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and His Contemporaries: Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts (1835)
