Theory of Chess

Excerpt from The Theory of Chess: A Treatise, in Which the Principles and Maxims of This Game, or Rather Science, Are Clearly and Concisely Explained; As Concisely, at Least, as It Might Be Advisable to Attempt; Including Directions for Playing, Modelled and Arranged in an Original Manner With a view to obviate this effect, he set him self to consider, whether these objections to the common system might not be removed, without at all changing the principle of Chess; that is,-by a general or partial revision of name only. This led to an examination of parts. An immediate and accidental result was, that the game of Chess. 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.