Chess History and Reminiscences

By Bird, H. E.

Book Id: WPLBN0000635444
Format Type: PDF eBook:
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Chess History and Reminiscences
Author:	Bird, H. E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: This little work is but a condensation and essence of a much larger one, containing the result of what can be discovered concerning the origin and history of chess, combined with some of my own reminiscences of 46 years past both of chess play and its exponents, dating back to the year 1846, the 18th of Simpson?s, 9 years after the death of A. McDonnell, and 6 after that of L. de La Bourdonnais when chivalrous and first class chess had come into the highest estimation, and emulatory matches and tests of supremacy in chess skill were the order of the day.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Chess Strategy, 1 -- Edward Lasker, 1 -- INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E?TEXT EDITION, 2 -- TRANSLATOR'S Preface, 3 -- AUTHOR'S Preface, 4 -- PART I, 5 -- Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 5 -- I. RULES OF THE GAME, 5 -- II. NOTATION, 8 -- Chapter II. HINTS FOR BEGINNERS -- ELEMENTARY COMBINATIONS, 9 -- Chapter III. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHESS STRATEGY, 15 -- Chapter IV. THE OPENING, 18 -- IRREGULAR OPENINGS, 46 -- Chapter V. THE END?GAME, 47 -- END?GAMES FROM MASTER PLAY, 73 -- II. FROM A GAME ED. LASKER?ROTLEVI (HAMBURG, 1910), 74 -- III. From a game Blackburne?Schlechter (Vienna, 1898), 76 -- IV. FROM A GAME BIRD?JANOWSKI, 79 -- V. FROM A GAME STEINER?FORGACZ (SZEKESFEHERVAR, 1907), 80 -- VI. FROM A GAME CHAROUSEK?HEINRICHSEN (COLOGNE, 1898), 81 -- Chapter VI. THE MIDDLE GAME, 82 -- PART II. ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES FROM MASTER TOURNAMENTS, 92 -- GAME No. 1, 92 -- GAME No. 2, 94 -- GAME No. 3, 96 -- GAME NO. 4, 98 -- GAME No. 5, 101 -- GAME No. 6, 103 -- GAME NO. 7, 105 -- GAME NO. 8, 107 -- GAME No. 9, 110 -- GAME No. 10, 113 -- GAME No. 11, 116 -- GAME No. 12, 119 -- GAME No. 13, 122 -- GAME No. 14, 124 -- GAME No. 15, 127 -- GAME No. 16, 130 -- GAME No. 17, 131 -- GAME No. 18, 135 -- GAME No. 19, 138 -- GAME No. 20, 142 -- GAME No. 21, 143 -- GAME No. 22, 145 -- GAME No. 23, 147 -- GAME No. 24, 149 -- GAME NO. 25, 151