The Chess Player Illustrated with Engravings and Diagrams (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Chess Player: Illustrated With Engravings and Diagrams
The Tables and Games in the following pages hare been carefully culled from various European works on Chess, and which have been highly approved of, as giving the plainest rules for understanding the principles of the game.
Most of the examples and diagrams have been used with great success in the instruction room by eminent teachers, and the variety of games as differently accomplished by celebrated players, embrace perhaps, every point questioned by any of the admirers of the game.
The historical remarks are from the best sources, and although not very difuse or laboriously extensive, may be found interesting, and of sufficient extent to gratify the taste for enquiry, among the general mass of readers on this subject.
The novice will find in the plates, the first correct position of the Chess-board and Men; and from that starting point, a gradual unfolding of every game, clearly elucidated in the plainest language, with the aid of diagrams; and with a little attention to the explanations, the moves and power of the dignified pieces and that of the pawn, will be readily understood, and as freely brought into practice for a scientific amusement, and as a beneficial gymnasium for the mind.
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