Black.

15. Q. takes P.
16. Q. B. to R. 3d.
17. Q. R. to K. sq.
18. B. takes B.
19. K. to R. sq.

20. Q. takes Q. B. P
21. Q. to Q. Kt. 5th. (b)
22. Q. to K. 2d. (c)
23. Q. to K. B. 3d.
24. B. to Kt. 2d.
25. Q. to K. 4th.
26. R. takes R.
27. K. R. P. one.
28. Q. B. P. two.
29. R. to K. 3d.
30. Q. to K. Kt. 4th.
31. R. to K. Kt. 3d.
32. Q. to K. 4th.
33. R. to K. B. 3d.
34. R. to K. B. 5th.
35. R. to K. B. sq.
36. R. to K. sq.
37. Q. B. P. one.
38. B. takes K. P.
39. B. to Kt. 2d.
40. R. takes Q.

And after a few more moves the game, by mutual con. zent, was abandoned as drawn.

NOTES TO GAME XV.

(a) A desirable move on account of its conformity with one of he first principles of a chess-player, which is, to concentrate his orces in the centre of the board; and a necessary one on account of the support thereby provided for K. B. P. in the event of the forced removal of K. R.

(b) If Rook capture Q. B. P., Black takes Kt. with R.

(c) With young players the propensity to attack Q. is nearly as

great as the other propensity to check K. on all occasions in the present instance if Black attack Q. with B., he is compelled to lose an exchange, to avoid that peculiar form of mate known as Philidor' legacy, e. g.:

White.

23. Kt. to K. B. 7th, check.
24. Kt. to R. 3d, check.

25. Q. to Kt. 8th, check,

26. Kt. mates.

Black.

22. B. to Q. Kt. 2d.
23. K. moves (if).

24. K. moves.

25. R. takes Q.

(d) Disagreeable results would be likely to attend the capture of

Rook's Pawn, thus :

24. Kt. takes R. P.

25. If Rook take R. mate en-
sues in three moves, there-
fore, K. R. to Q. sq.

26. R. to K. sq.

27. K. to R. sq.

24. R. takes K. P.

25. B. to K. 7th.

26. Q. to B. 7th, check.

27. B. to K. B. 6th, and Black wins in a few moves.

(e) If Q. to K. 2d, Black captures K. P. with R., and White could not possibly save the game.

LESSON III.

In the game forming this Lesson, first player at his 3d move plays K. B. to Q. Kt. 5th, a move formerly considered weak play, but which may be adopted with safety. The following examination of this move is from Walker's Art of Chess-Play.

FIRST REPLY.

White.

Black.

3. K. B. to Q. B. 4th.

In

ine game that follows, extracted from the Chess-Player's Chronicle, it will be seen that Staunton deprecates this move. Jaenisch and Bilguer prefer K. Kt. to B. 3d.—(See Second Reply.)

4. Q. B. P. one (best, see A). 4. K. Kt. to K. 2d.

5. Castles.

6. Q. P. two.

7. P. takes P.

8. Q. P. one.

9. B. to Q. R. 4th.

10. Q. P. advances.

11. P. takes P. (best).

5. Castles.

6. P. takes P.

7. K. B. to Q. Kt. 3d.

8. Q. R. P. one.

9. Q. Kt. home.

10. K. Kt. to Kt. 3d (best). 11. Q. takes P.

12. Q. Kt. to B. 3d, with rather better position.

Black can, however, vary some of the preceding moves, and the result should be an even game.

4. B. takes Kt. 5. If you take K. P. playing Q. to Q. 5th. once Q. B. P. one, the Q. P. one (best). 6. Q. B. to K. 3d. 7. Castles.

Variation A.

4. Q. P. takes B. with Kt., he gets a good game by Ponziani makes you play now at answer to which is Q. to Q. 6th.

5. Q. B. to Kt. 5th.

6. Q. to her 3d.

7. Q. R. to Q. sq.

8. Q. Kt. to Q. 2d. The game is even.

Jaenisch now

erroneously plays for Black, K. Kt. to K. 2d, not seeing that you would not reply as he supposes with Q. Kt. to Q. Kt. 3d, but with Q. Kt. to Q. B. 4th, winning a piece.

SECOND REPLY.

4. Q. P. one.-To take Kt.

gives no advantage.

5. Castles.

6. Kt. takes Kt.

7. Q. B. P. one

3. K. Kt. to B. 3d.

4. K. B. to Q. B. 4th.

5. Q. Kt. to Q. 5th.

6. B. takes Kt.
7. B. to Q. Kt. 3d.

The following game on this mode of playing the Knight's Opening, extracted from the Berlin Schachzeitung, and pub. lished in the Chess-Player's Chronicle for Jan., 1847, was played between Messrs. Heydebrandt and Hanstein:

15. K. Kt. to his 5th sq. (ƒ) 15. Q. B. to K. B. 4th.

White.

27. Q. to her B. 6th. (i)
28. Q. takes Q. P., check.
29. Q. R. to B. 6th. (m)
30. Q. to her 6th.
31. R. takes B.

32. Q. takes R.

33. Q. to K. B. 6th, check.
34. R. takes Q.
35. K. B. P. one.
36. Q. R. P. one.
37. R. takes R.
38. K. to B. 2d.
39. K. to his 3d.
40. K. to B. 4th.
41. K. to Kt. 4th.
42. K. to B. 4th.
43. K. to Kt. 4th.
44. K. to B. 4th.
45. K. Kt. P. two.
46. P. takes P.

47. Q. R. P. one. (r)
48. Q. R. P. one.

49. K. to his 3d, and the

battle.

Black.
27. K. R. to K. sq. (k1
28. K. to R.
sq. (1)
29. B. to K. 5th. (n)
30. B. takes Kt. (0)
31. K. R. to K. 3d.
32. Q. takes R.

33. Q. takes Q.
34. R. to Q. Kt. sq (p)
35. B. to Q. 4th.
36. R. to Kt. 3d. (q)

37. P. takes R.

38. K. to Kt. 2d.
39. K. to B. 3d.
40. B. to Q. B. 3d.
41. B. to K. sq.
42. B. to K. Kt. 3d.
43. K. R. P. two, check
44. B. to K. B. 4th.
45. B. to K. Kt. 3d.
46. B. takes P.

47. B. to K. sq.

48. P. takes P. (s)

game was resigned as a drawn

NOTES.

(a) The question whether B. to Q. Kt. 5th or to Q. B. 4th is the better move at this point for the first player, is nearly as old as the present mode of playing chess. Lopez considered Q. Kt. to B. 3d, as recommended by his predecessor Damiano for the 2d move of the defence, a bad one, on account of this very move of K. B. to Q. Kt. 5th. His variations show, however, that he had but imperfectly analyzed the consequences. The Italian players, and with them the succeeding German, English, and French authors, considered K. B. to Q. Kt. 5th, a weak move, and unanimously declared for K. B. to Q. B. 4th; many players of the present time, and some of the most recent works-amongst others Le Palamède, for March, 1846—join in this opinion. The analyses of the authors are, however, very incomplete; and we are indebted to the labors of Mr. Mayet in Bilguer's