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The Chess Lover: Chess Pawn Endings Example 2

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Articles and posts about the game of chess, its rules, strategies, and history. Articles are excerpted from vintage sources including a 1911 encyclopedia and from "Chess Fundamentals" by José Raúl Capablanca, 1921. Saturday, September 8, 2012. Chess Pawn Endings Example 2. Which governs this ending as well as all the Pawn-endings already given, and which will be explained more fully later on.). This ending, apparently so simple, should show the student the enormous difficulties to be surmounted,.

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The Chess Lover: January 2012

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Articles and posts about the game of chess, its rules, strategies, and history. Articles are excerpted from vintage sources including a 1911 encyclopedia and from "Chess Fundamentals" by José Raúl Capablanca, 1921. Monday, January 23, 2012. Chess Pawn Endings Example 1. 1 K - Q 7, K - Kt 1; 2 K - K 7, K - R 1; 3 P - B 6, P × P. If 3.K - Kt 1; 4 P - B 7 ch, K - R 1; 5 P - B 8 (Q) mate. 4 K - B 7, P - B 4; 5 P - Kt 7 ch, K - R 2; 6 P - Kt 8 (Q) ch, K - R 3; 7 Q - Kt 6 mate. Thursday, January 19, 2012.

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The Chess Lover: March 2010

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Articles and posts about the game of chess, its rules, strategies, and history. Articles are excerpted from vintage sources including a 1911 encyclopedia and from "Chess Fundamentals" by José Raúl Capablanca, 1921. Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Monday, March 1, 2010. First Move and Odds. The pawn gives check in the same way as he captures, viz. diagonally. One king cannot give check to another, nor may a king be moved into check. The Board, Pieces and Moves. The king, queen, rooks and bishops may capture any f...

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The Chess Lover: Chess Pawn Ending Example 3

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Articles and posts about the game of chess, its rules, strategies, and history. Articles are excerpted from vintage sources including a 1911 encyclopedia and from "Chess Fundamentals" by José Raúl Capablanca, 1921. Thursday, September 13, 2012. Chess Pawn Ending Example 3. Here white can win by advancing any of the three Pawns on the first move, but it is convenient to follow the general rule, whenever there is no good reason against it, of advancing the Pawn that has no Pawn opposing it.

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August 2008

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Adapted from "My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman, 1916" and "Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience", 1914. Monday, August 25, 2008. Two Entire Packs of Cards. Deal out twenty-five cards in five rows, each containing five cards. The object is to compose the number fourteen with any two cards taken either from a perpendicular or from a horizontal row. The knave counts eleven, the queen twelve, and the king thirteen. Thursday, August 21, 2008. Vintage Card Games: The Fifteen.

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Babette

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Adapted from "My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman, 1916" and "Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience", 1914. Sunday, August 17, 2008. Two Entire Packs of Cards. The foundations follow suit. Vacancies in the garden are not to be refilled. Each row of cards in the garden blocks the preceding one, but on the removal of cards in the lower rows those above them are released. The garden may be taken up twice and re-dealt exactly in the same manner and observing the same rules.

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Snip, Snap, Snorum

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Adapted from "My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman, 1916" and "Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience", 1914. Monday, August 11, 2008. Snip, Snap, Snorum. Snip, Snap, Snorum. This is a first-rate game and very exciting. Any number of players may take part in it, and the whole of the fifty-two cards are dealt out. Each player has five counters, and there is a pool in the middle, which is empty at the commencement of the game. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Mill

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Adapted from "My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman, 1916" and "Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience", 1914. Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Two Entire Packs of Cards. All cards in the wings are available. The five foundations do not follow suit. Note—The four families on the centre ace each begin with ace and end with king. It is better to play cards from the talon rather than from the wings. Vacancies in the wings must be immediately refilled from the pack or talon.

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Vintage Card Games: The Fifteen

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Adapted from "My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman, 1916" and "Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience", 1914. Thursday, August 21, 2008. Vintage Card Games: The Fifteen. Two Entire Packs of Cards. Only cards in the seventh or lowest row are available, until by their removal those above them are released. No card can at any time be used that has any other below it. Note—There is one exception to this rule, in case the game cannot be opened. See below. There is no re-deal.

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La Belle Lucie

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Adapted from "My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman, 1916" and "Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience", 1914. Tuesday, August 12, 2008. The uppermost card of each packet is alone available, until by its removal it releases the one beneath. The foundations must follow suit. Deal out the entire pack in packets of three cards dealt together and placed as in tableau. The last packet, however, will contain but one card. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Snip, Snap, Snorum. Chess...