BOOK V. THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT ACCEPTED.-THE QUEEN'S GAM. THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT. LESSON I. THE Queen's Gambit, or as it was sometimes called, the "Aleppo Gambit," from its having been the favorite game of Stamma, of Aleppo, is a very sound and instructive method of opening the game; less brilliant, because less hazardous, than the gambits on the King's side, but especially improving to the student, from the nicety and correctness of play on both sides which it demands. We find it noticed as early even as Damiano and Lopez, and to have been subsequently examined by Salvio, Gianutio, and Carrera-by Stamma (who eulogizes it as the best of all openings), by Cozio, Philidor, Lolli, Ercole del Rio, Sarratt, Lewis, La Bourdonnais, Petroff, Jaenisch, Walker, the German " Handbuch," the "ChessPlayer's Chronicle," and admirably illustrated in the games between McDonnell and La Bourdonnais. These moves form the Queen's Gambit. But the best authorities have decided that it is unadvisable for Black to take the Pawn, and that his most prudent play is 2. K. P. one, (see Lesson II). The refusal of the gambit is in accordance with the example of Salvio; but in declining it he proposes a less recommendable move, namely, 2. Q. B. P. two. (See Salvio, Ed. 1723, p. 104.) 3. K. P. one. 3. K. P. two. Your move of 3. K. P. one is that adopted in La Bourdon |