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A Guide to Chess and Checkers
A Guide to Chess and Checkers
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION
INTRODUCTION
THE HISTORY OF CHESS
THE HISTORY OF CHECKERS
PART I: THE GAME OF CHESS
I. THE RULES OF THE GAME
Board and men
The moves of the men
Special terms
Symbols for moves
Chess laws
II. ELEMENTARY TACTICS
Fundamental endings
Relative value of the men
How the different men cooperate
Sacrificing
III. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHESS STRATEGY
King's Pawn openings
Queen's Pawn openings
The middle game
IV. ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES
Game No. 1: Jackson Showalter vs. Edward Lasker,
Lexington, Ky., 1917
Game No. 2: Edward Lasker vs. Jose R. Capablanca,
New York, 1915
V. PROBLEMS
PART II: THE GAME OF CHECKERS
I. THE RULES OF THE GAME
II. ELEMENTARY TACTICS
III. THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS
The first position
The second position
The change of the move
The third position
The fourth position
The fifth position
IV. GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES
V. PROBLEMS
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION
The following is an e-text of "Chess and Checkers: The Way
to Mastership," by Edward Lasker, copyright 1918, printed in
New York.
This e-text contains the 118 chess and checkers board game
diagrams appearing in the original book, plus an extra chess
diagram that appears on the front cover of the book, all in
the form of ASCII line drawings. The following is a key to
the diagrams:
For chess pieces,
R = Rook
Kt = Knight
B = Bishop
Q = Queen
K = King
P = Pawn
Black pieces have a # symbol to the left of them, while
white pieces have a ^ symbol to the left of them. For example,
#B is the Black bishop, while ^B is the white bishop. #Kt is
the black knight, while ^Kt is the white knight. This will
let the reader instantly tell by sight which pieces in the
ASCII chess diagrams are black and which are white.
For Checkers pieces,
* = black single piece
o = white single piece
** = black king
oo = white king
Those who find these diagrams hard to read should feel free
to set up them up on a game board using the actual pieces.
PREFACE
The present world war has given great impetus to the game of
Chess. In the prison camps, in the field hospitals, in the
training camps and even in the trenches Chess has become a
favorite occupation in hours of leisure, not only because it
offers a most fascinating pastime, but mainly because it serves
beyond any doubt to develop what is now the most interesting
study for every soldier--the grasp of the principles underlying
military strategy and the ability to conceive and to carry out
military operations on a large scale.
Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Moltke, the great scientists of
war, had a decided liking for the game of Chess and owed to it
many an inspiration which helped them in laying out their
military plans. Indeed, no other game exists which offers such
complete analogies to war.
Two armies oppose each other on the Chess board, composed of
different units which may well be compared with infantry, cavalry
and artillery.
The success of the operations on the board, which represents the
battlefield, does not depend upon any element of chance, but
solely upon the ingenuity and the skill of the players who are
the commanders-in-chief of the forces.
Although a Chess game differs from a battle in that the material
strength of the opponents is equal, the order of events is the

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