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The major tactics of chess: a treatise on evolutions; the proper employment of the forces in strategic, tactical, and logistic planes

Young, Franklin Knowles, 1857- · 1898 · Boston, Little, Brown and company · 12 pictures

A chess treatise by Franklin Knowles Young, published in Boston by Little, Brown and company in 1898, aimed at serious players studying tactics and the deployment of forces. The pictures are plain line-engraved chessboard diagrams with black and white pieces on hatched squares, showing endgame positions with rooks, kings, pawns and knights. A designer could take from them a strong checkerboard hatching pattern and the stark, schematic look of printed game notation.

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Internet Archive · University of California Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library