A Primer of Chess

Contents

001 Introduction

Part One

003 1 The Game, the Men, their Moves, and the Object of the Game
003 The game
004 The moves
007 Check and checkmate
008 Stalemate
008 Castling
010 Chess notation
011 Taking "en passant"

013 2 The Way to Learn and to Improve Your Game
014 Simple mates
018 Simple endings, pawn promotion
020 Two pawns against one pawn
023 Relative value of the pieces

025 3 The Openings from an Elementary Point of View
030 The middlegame
037 The endgame

042 4 Main Rules and Ethics of the Game

Part Two

044 Introduction

048 1 The Endings
052 A classical ending
053 Obtaining a passed pawn
054 How to find out which pawn will be first to queen
055 The opposition
057 The relative value of knight and bishop
062 How to mate with a knight and bishop
063 Queen against rook

066 2 The Middlegame
070 Centre squares
071 Pawn formations
073 Castled pawn formation
075 Type positions and combinations
078 Valuation of position in the middlegame

086 3 The Openings
091 Ruy Lopez
095 King's Gambit
096 King's Bishop Gambit
097 Centre Game
097 Centre Gambit
098 Queen's Gambit
111 Synthesis of general theory

Part Three

114 Illustrative Games
115 1 Dr E.Lasker-J.R.Capablanca, 10th game, Havana 1921
119 2 J.R.Capablanca-Dr E.Lasker, 11th game, Havana 1921
122 3 J.R.Capablanca-Dr M.Vidmar, London 1922
124 4 J.R.Capablanca-E.D.Bogoljubow, London 1922
127 5 J.R.Capablanca-E.D.Bogoljubow, Moscow 1925
129 6 J.R.Capablanca-Dr M.Vidmar, New York 1927
132 7 J.R.Capablanca-R.Spielmann, New York 1927
133 8 A.Nimzowitsch-J.R.Capablanca, New York 1927
137 9 A.Nimzowitsch-J.R.Capablanca, New York 1927
140 10 J.R.Capablanca-A.Rubinstein, Berlin 1928
143 11 J.R.Capablanca-Dr M.Euwe, match, Holland 1930
146 12 J.R.Capablanca-Dr M.Euwe, match, Holland 1930