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Back to topThe Major Tactics of Chess: A Treatise on Evolutions; The Proper Employment of the Forces in Strategic, Tactical, and Logistic Planes (Paperback)
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This, the second volume of the Chess Strategetics chess tricks. Its purpose is to elucidate those processes upon which every ruse, trick, artifice, and stratagem known in chess play, is founded consequently, this treatise is devoted to teaching the student how to win hostile pieces, to queen his pawns, and to checkmate the adverse king. All the processes herein laid down are determinate, although the opponent becomes invotved in any one of them, he ahould lose the game. Each stratagem is ilIustratire of a principle of Tactics it takes the form of a geometric proposition, and in statement, setting and demonstration, is mathematically exact. The student, having once committed these plots and counter plots to memory, becomes equipped with a technique whereby he is competent to project and to execute any design and to detect and foil every machination of his antagonist.