The laws and practice of chess
Subtitle: together with an analysis of the openings, and a treatise on end games
By: by the late Howard Staunton ; edited by Robert B. Wormald
Edition: A new edition.
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Chess
Table of contents: title: Some account of the origin and history of the game of chess; title: The chess-board and chess-men. Pawns and movements of the latter. Recommendations to a beginner. Simple checkmates; title: Notation of the moves; title: Technical terms in chess-playing; title: Relative worth of the chess-men; title: General rules and recommendations for a learner; title: Simple checkmates; title: Regulations for playing; title: Preparatory games; title: The king's bishop's opening; title: Knight's defence to the king's bishop's opening; title: The Greco-counter gambit; title: Queen's bishop's pawn defence; title: Petroff's defence; title: The Giuoco Piano; title: The Evan's gambit; title: The Scotch gambit; title: The two knight's defence; title: Staunton's opening; title: Knight's game of Ruy Lopez; title: Philidor's defence; title: Greco-counter gambit in the king's knight's game; title: Centre gambit; title: The Vienna opening; title: King's bishop's gambit; title: The king's gambit; title: Salvio-Cochrane gambit; title: Muzio gambit; title: Alligaier-Kieseritzky gambit; title: Cunningham gambit; title: King's gambit refused; title: The Queen's gambit; title: The French game; title: Sicilian game; title: The centre counter gambit; title: Queen's bishop's pawn's opening; title: The inverted sicilian; title: The Holland game and Fianchetto.