Project Gutenberg 2005-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 310 Staunton, Howard 1810 1874 The blue book of chess : $b teaching the rudiments of the game, and giving an analysis of all the recognized openings Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Peter Barozzi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Blue Book of Chess" is an instructional manual on the game of chess that was written in the early 20th century. The work aims to teach beginners the fundamentals of chess, focusing on simplifying the complexities of various openings and strategies through analyzed games. At the start of this manual, the preface outlines its purpose as a resource for those learning chess, indicating that many learners have been overwhelmed by the variety of tactics available, particularly regarding openings. It highlights the importance of understanding the power and moves of chess pieces, with illustrations to demonstrate these concepts. The initial chapter discusses the arrangement of the pieces and the chessboard, defining technical terms and providing the fundamental rules of chess to ensure a solid foundation for new players. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Chess GV Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Sports/Hobbies/Motoring 1200458 1201529 2024-09-07T09:16:42.361219 2023-09-07T10:44:29.087196 text/html text/html 1065022 2020-12-12T06:44:35 text/html; charset=us-ascii 457754 2020-12-12T06:44:35 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 342864 2024-09-07T09:17:16.025592 application/epub+zip 352120 2024-09-07T09:16:49.583211 application/epub+zip 256405 2024-09-07T09:16:45.920199 application/epub+zip 1763760 2024-09-07T09:17:29.139520 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 611859 2024-09-07T09:17:11.012593 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 613564 2022-09-08T05:02:26.842363 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 679708 679604 2024-09-07T09:16:34.818268 2023-09-07T10:44:21.634107 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 679688 2020-12-12T06:44:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 140809 2020-12-12T06:44:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18068 2024-09-07T09:17:29.374503 application/rdf+xml 13939 2024-09-07T09:16:46.570214 image/jpeg 3648 2024-09-07T09:16:46.258209 image/jpeg 515054 2024-09-07T09:16:42.566234 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia