6. Wh. The Q. Pawn 2 sq. Bl. The Queen at her K. B. 3d sq. 7. Wh. The K. Pawn one sq. Bl. The Q. Pawn takes the Pawn. 8. Wh. The Q. Pawn takes the Pawn. 9. Wh. The Q. Bishop takes the Gambit's Pawn. Bl. The Q. Bishop at the wh. K. Kt. 4th sq. 10. Wh. The Q. Knight at his B. 3d sq. 11. Wh. The Q. Knight at his K. 4th sq. and must win the game. every way when tolerably well performed; three pawns well conducted cannot be less than equivalent to a piece: But the sure way to succeed in the attack is, when the check is given with the bishop at the fourth move, to remove your king to his own bishop's place, and not push the pawn as Cunningham directs. This makes it impossible for your adversary to preserve the gambit's pawn, which it will be always in your power to take, and to preserve continually the attack upon him. 278 THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT, OTHERWISE THE GAMBIT OF ALEPPO, WITH SIX BACK GAMES. 1. Wh. THE Q. Pawn 2 sq. Bl. The same. 2. Wh. The Q. B. Pawn 2 sq. Bl. The Pawn takes the Pawn. 3. Wh. The K. Pawn 2 sq. (a) (a) If you had pushed this pawn but one square, your adversary would have shut up your queen's bishop for at least half the game; this the first backgame will shew. A certain author (otherwise a very good player, who delights chiefly in this queen's gambit) teaches to push this pawn only one square; but this will convince him and others that it is better to push it two; nevertheless, I will agree, that by pushing it only one, you may sometimes deceive a bad player, but this does not justify the move. Bl. The same. (b) 4. Wh. The Q. Pawn one sq. (c) 5. sq. Wh. The Q. Knight at his B. 3d 6. Wh. The K. B. Pawn one sq. Bl. The K. Bishop at his Q. B. 4th 7. sq. Wh. The Q. Knight at his R. 4th sq. (e) ✅ (b) Had he sustained the gambit's pawn, he had lost the game. This will be seen by a second back game. But if he had neither pushed this pawn, nor taken the gambit's pawn, you must have pushed your king's bishop's pawn two squares, and your game would have been in the best of situations, for having then three pawns in front. (c) If you had taken his king's pawn, you had lost the advantage of the attack; as see the third back game. (d) If he had played any thing else, you must have pushed your king's bishop's pawn two squares; and then your pieces would have had entire liberty to attack. (e) If, instead of playing your knight in order to take his king's bishop, or make him remove it from that line, (according to Rule G. 12) you had taken the gambit's pawn, you had lost the game again. This must be shewn by a fourth back game. Bl. The K. Bishop takes the K. Knight. (ƒ) 8. Wh. The Rook takes the Bishop. 9. Wh. The Knight at his Q. B. 3d sq. 10. Wh. The K. Bishop takes the Gambit's Bl. The Pawn takes the K. B. Pawn. 11. Wh. The K. Kt. Pawn takes the Pawn (i) (f) Had he played his bishop at your queen's fourth square, you must have attacked it with your king's knight, and taken it the next move. : (g) If he had pushed his queen's knight's pawn two squares in order to sustain his gambit's pawn, you will be convinced by a fifth back game that he had lost the party; and if instead of either of these two moves, he had chosen to take your king's pawn, your taking his pawn would have hindered him from taking yours again with his knight, because he would have lost the game by your afterwards giving him check with your queen. (h) Should you take his king's bishop's pawn with yours, you would lose the game. (2) In taking this pawn, you give an opening to your rook upon his king, and this pawn serves likewise for a Bl. The Q. Bishop at his K. B. 4th sq. 12. Wh. The Q. Bishop at his K. 3d sq. 13. Wh. The Queen at her 2d sq. 14. Wh. The Q. Bishop takes the Knight.. 15. Wh. The King castles on his Queen's side. Bl. The King at his R. sq. 16. Wh. The K. Rook at the bl. K. Kt. 4th sq. 17. Wh. The Queen at her K. 3d sq. 18. Wh. The Knight at his K. 4th sq. better guard to your king; it stops also the course of your adversary's knight; and though you have at present a pawn less, you have the best of the game by the situation. |