CONTENTS.

Lesson.

BOOK I.

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE GAME.

I. The names of the Pieces.-How to set up the Men.-Names of the

Squares.-Exercises

II. The Moves

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III. On the Manner in which the Chess-men take each other.

IV. Checking the King.-Check-mate.-A Chess Problem explained.

-Various kinds of Check.-Simple Check.-Check by Discovery.

-Double Check.-Perpetual Check.-Drawn Games.-Various

kinds of Mate.-Stale Mate.-Fool's Mate.-Scholar's Mate.-

Smothered Mate

V. Method of Check-mating with the Queen

VI. Method of Check-mating with both Rooks

VII. Method of Check-mating with one Rook

VIII. Castling. Some peculiarities of Pawn-play.-Taking "en

passant."-Centre Pawns.-Doubled Pawns.-Passed Pawns.—

Isolated Pawns.-Advancing a Pawn to Queen.-Problem illus -

trative of Queening a Pawn.-Forking with Pawn or Knight.-

The Exchange

IX. Gaining the Opposition.-A King and Pawn against a King

X. Pawns against Pawns

XI. On the Power of Single King to stop Pawns

XII. The Laws of the Game

BOOK II.

THE KING'S BISHOP'S OPENING.

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I. Opening the Game.-Powers of the Pieces at the commencement.

-K. P. two sq.; why a good Opening move.-The Regular Open-

ings Classified.-Elementary Analysis of the King's Bishop's

Game, White having first move.-Defence, Black having first

move

II. King's Bishop's Opening continued.-Game I. from Tomlinson's

Amusements in Chess.-Game II. from Philidor's Analysis.-

Game III. Philidor's Game with Comments from the " Traité

des Amateurs"

III. Games in Actual Play.-Games I. and II. between Messrs.

Withers and Williams of the Bristol Chess Club.-Game III. be-

tween Walker and Cochrane.-Game IV. in the Match between

Stanley and Rousseau.-Game V. between La Bourdonnais and

M'Donnel.-Game VI. between New-York and Norfolk.-Game

VII. between two strong players at Goode's Chess Rooms, Lon-

don.-Games VIII., IX., X. and XI. Allgaier's Variation in the

Defence of the Bishop's Opening.-Game XII. between Mayet

and Heydebrandt.-Game XIII. between St. Amant and four

players at the Douai Chess Club.-Walker's Closing Remarks

on the Bishop's Opening.-Game XIV.

IV. Fifteen Problems in Two Moves

THE MONKEY AND THE GASCON CHESS KNIGHT.

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BOOK III.

THE KING'S KNIGHT'S OPENING.

1. Elementary Analysis; White having First Move
Defence; Black having First Move

II. Walker's Deductions from Examination of K. Kt.'s Opening.—

Games in Actual Play.-Leading Game.-Game I. between

the Clubs of Westminster and Paris.-Game II. La Bourdonnais

and M'Donnel.-Game III. Stanley and Rousseau.-Game IV.

won by Popert.-Game V. won by St. Amant.-Game VI. Staun-

ton and St. Amant.-Game VII. Calvi and Kieseritzkij.-Game

VIII. Staunton and Horwitz.-Game IX. won by Jaenisch.-

Game X. Cochrane and Popert.-Game XI. St. Amant and

Cochrane.-Game XII. Clubs of Berlin and Breslau.-Game

XIII. Boncourt and Kieseritzkij.-Game XIV. Staunton and

Horwitz.-Game XV. Stanley and another strong player

III. First Player at his 3d move plays K. B. to Q. Kt. 5th.-

Analysis and Game in Actual Play between Heydebrant and

Hanstein

IV. The Queen's Pawn-Two Opening.-Leading Moves.-In Act-

ual Play: Games I., II., and III., in correspondence between

the London and Edinburgh Chess Clubs.-Game IV. Cochrane

and Popert.-Game V. Perigal and Daniels.-Game VI. in cor-

respondence between the Washington and New-York Chess

Clubs.-Game VII. from Walker's Thousand Games in Actual

FOURTEEN PROBLEMS IN THREE MOVES

HOW A WORLD was Won, or a GAME OF CHESS IN 1492

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BOOK IV.

STAUNTON'S ANALYSIS OF THE KING'S GAMBIT, EXEMPLIFIED IN GAMES
ACTUALLY PLAYED BY THE GREATEST MASTERS.

VIII. The King's Bishop's Gambit .

IX. Deviation from the Standard Methods of Defence in the King's

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