The minor tactics of chess; a treatise on the development of the forces in obedience to strategic principle
A chess instruction manual by Franklin K. Young and Edwin C. Howell, published by Little, Brown in Boston in 1901 for club players studying opening development. The figures are line-drawn boards with hatched dark squares, small silhouetted pieces, and dotted lines lettered a, b, c to trace lines of attack, giving designers ready-made grids, diagram notation, and piece icons.








