Chessbook - Lewis, Szachy
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CHESS PROBLEMS
being a selection of original positions; to which are
added others, extracted from rare and valuable
works forming together one hundred ends of games;
won or drawn by brilliant and scienti c moves; to
which are added the names of the authors.
by
W. Lewis
teacher of chess
[ 1827 ]
An Electronic Edition
Anders ulin, Malmö · Preliminary edition
PREFACE
Ends of Games or Positions won or drawn by masterly moves, have
always been considered by the best Chess players and writers as emi-
nently useful, if not absolutely necessary towards forming the nished
player; and though many excellent ones have already been published,
yet I am not without hopes that the following work will be favourably
received by the Chess world, as it contains forty-eight original posi-
tions, besides others extracted from authors little known even to the
good Chess player, none of them having been copied from Stamma’s
Work, the
Stratagems of Chess,
Sarratt’s
Treatise,
or the
Oriental Chess.
I have endeavoured as much as possible to select such Positions as
are instructive as well as amusing; accordingly, the reader will observe,
that there are many in which the White, though unable to checkmate
in a given number of moves, can yet acquire such a superiority as to
have a winning game. Such positions are generally the most improv-
ing. Among those in which the number of moves is xed, will be found
many in which as the White is not exposed to an immediate check-
mate, it by no means follows that he must give check every move: such
positions are more di cult than those in which from the situation of
the pieces it is evident the Black must be checked every move.
I defer for the present publishing the Solutions, that the reader may
solve the Problems without being tempted to refer to the Key. ey
will however be printed in the course of the present year; and though
in such a work it is next to impossible to be perfectly accurate, yet I
believe very few errors will be found. In some perhaps the checkmate
may be delayed for a move or two by a useless sacri ce, an instance of
which occurs in the Forty- fth Situation, in which the mate cannot be
given in less than ten moves.
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