The Minor Tactics of Chess: A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle

Franklin Knowles Young (1857-?) and Edwin Cull Howell

Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1899

Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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122+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece, diagrams, appendix and index. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4") bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover with pictorial chess boards. (Betts: 11-2) Later edition. Originally published in 1894. Prefaced by a brief, but complex, introduction to the elements, this is chiefly an exposition, in mathematico/military language, of "ideal" pawn and piece configurations and the type of plan which should develop from each. With seventeen illustrative games. Condition: Spine ends and corners rubbed, corners gently bumped, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy issued without jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS001421

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Title: The Minor Tactics of Chess: A Treatise on ...

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co, Boston

Publication Date: 1899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 4th Edition

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