CHESS OPENINGS. BY ROBERT B. WORMALD, B.A. + "UT NIVEUS NIGROS, NUNC UT NIGER ALLIGAT ALBOS." LONDON: RICHARD SIMPSON, 10, KING WILLIAM STREET, 1864. PREFACE. I AM fully aware that this little volume can advance but slight pretensions to originality. My object has been simply to give, so far as might be compatible with my limited space, the latest results of the theory of the Openings as established by the best authorities, and with this view I have availed myself without scruple of the more elaborate works of Staunton, Der Laza, Jaenisch, Max Lange, and others, to whom I take this opportunity of expressing my obligations. At the same time, being fully conscious of the importance of actual play as the ultimate test of theoretical analysis, I have drawn largely upon the valuable collection of games recorded in the pages of the German Schachzeitung, the "Chess Players' Chronicle," and the various English and foreign newspapers and periodicals in which Chess now forms a prominent feature. In every instance I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to derive my information directly from the fountain head; and although I have occasionally ventured to differ from the conclusions of my predecessors, I have the satisfaction of feeling that my dissent has been in all cases founded upon careful |