The Chess-Players Handbook: A Popular And Scientific Introduction To The Game Of Chess (1872)

By Howard Staunton

Book Overview

The Chess-Players Handbook: A Popular And Scientific Introduction To The Game Of Chess (1872) is a comprehensive guide to the game of chess written by Howard Staunton. The book is designed to be accessible to both beginners and advanced players, and provides a thorough introduction to the rules and strategies of chess. Staunton, a renowned chess player and writer, covers all aspects of the game, including the opening, middlegame, and endgame. He also provides detailed explanations of various tactics and strategies, and offers advice on how to analyze and improve one's play. The book includes numerous diagrams and illustrations to help readers visualize the various positions and moves discussed. Additionally, Staunton provides a history of the game of chess, including notable players and famous games throughout history. Overall, The Chess-Players Handbook is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their understanding and skill in the game of chess.Exemplified In Games Actually Played By The Greatest Masters.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1167024850
• ISBN13: 9781167024856
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Synopsis

"He achieved fame by winning a celebrated match against the French champion St Amant, gave his name to a set of chessmen that has become standard, edited the first English chess magazine and by his originality and enthusiasm brought about the first International Chess Tournament. This remarkable man was Howard Staunton, the only British chess master of whom it could be said that at one time he was the world's leading player." "In 1847 came Staunton's first and greatest work on chess, the Chess-Player's Handbook. It was at once an immense success and remained so throughout his lifetime and long after. In between the years 1847 and 1935 it was republished 21 times." Harry Golombek.

good book on classical chess

This is a good book on classical chessHoward Staunton was one of the best players Europe had to offer and here he first gives you on how to play teaches the game from the beginning and then goes into opening play.This book concentrates mostly on the opening He gives a brief history of each opening and then goes onto moves and then goes to variations and subvariatons and on and onHe even gives around 10 or more games for each opening and each variation and even explains onto what happens in the game It is quite interesting and develops your skill very as I dont play in USCF I cant give you my rating but it has effected my play a lotWarning:This book has descriptive notation (P-k4) so it might throw you off the trail for it did to me in first Butall in all it is a real good book and if it were to be in modern algebric notation then I would give it 5 stars