Inside Out Library

De Witt's American chess manual. Containing full instructions for young players (1880)

Chadwick, Henry, 1824-1908, ed · New York, De Witt · leaf 47

An illustration from De Witt's American chess manual. Containing full instructions for young players, 1880, leaf 47
or, Guide to Beginners. 33 One grand principle, you will observe in these cases to be, that your adversary's King must be forced, not only into one of the four corners of the board, but to one of those two corner squares which your Bishop commands. The following illustration [see Diagram No. IX.)… … WHITE. serve to exhibit the process by which adverse King may be so compelled ; but in order to perfect yourself in such maiv

Chess

Internet Archive · The Library of Congress · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from De Witt's American chess manual. Containing full instructions for young players

More like this