Download or read book The Chess Tournament written by Howard Staunton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chess Tournament: A Collection of the Games Played at This Celebrated Assemblage, Illustrated by Copious Diagrams, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory Advantages of a Congress of Chess-pie ers.-the importance of fine games. - Anomalous character of the was of Chess. -italian play. The law relative to fifty moves. - False moves. - Castling at odds. Benefit of some fixed system of notation. - Limitation of time ex pended upon play. - True use of Chem - Open games. - Obstacles in the way of a Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.