B. The rook takes the pawn*. 48 W. The rook takes the pawnt. B. The rook at the king's rook's second square. 49 W. The pawn two steps. B. The pawn one step. 50 W. The rook at its king's rook's second square. B. The king at his knight's second square. 51 W. The pawn one move. square. B. The king at his knight's third 52 W. The king at the black queen's bishop's third square. B. The king at his knight's fourth square. 53 W. The pawn one move. B. The king at the white king's knight's fourth square. 54 W. The pawn advances. B. The rook takes the pawn, and playing afterwards his king upon the rook, it is a drawn game, because his pawn will cost your rook. FIRST BACK GAME. Beginning at the third Move of the Queen's Gambit. 3 W. THE king's pawn one move. his; B. The king's bishop's pawn two steps‡. If he did not take your pawn, you must have taken and that would have given you the game. + If instead of taking his pawn, you had taken his rook, you had lost the game. Moving of this pawn must convince you, that it had been better to push your king's pawn two steps, because his pawn obstructs the union of your king's and queen's pawns in front. 4 W. The king's bishop takes the pawn. B. The king's pawn one move. 5 W. The king's bishop's pawn one move.. B. The king's knight at his bishop's third square*. 6 W. The queen's knight at her bishop's third square. B. The queen's bishop's pawn two stepst. 7 W. The king's knight at his king's second square. B. The queen's knight at her bishop's third square. 8 W. The king castles on his own side. B. The king's knight's pawn two steps. 9 W. The queen's pawn takes the pawng. B. The queen takes the queen. 10 W. The rook retakes the queen. B. The king's bishop takes the pawn. 11 W. The king's knight at his queen's fourth square. B. The king at his second square. 12 W. The queen's knight at her rook's fourth square. B. The king's bishop at his queen's third square. 13 W. The king's knight takes the knight. B. The pawn retakes the knight. * He playeth this knight to hinder your king's and queen's pawns from assembling. This is pushed again with the same design, to prevent the centre pawns from uniting in front. He playeth this pawn to push that of his king's bishop upon your king's pawn in case of need, which would cause an entire separation of your best pawns. § If instead of taking this pawn you had advanced your own, the adversary would then have attacked your king's 14 W. The king's bishop's pawn one step*. B. The knight at his queen's fourth square. 17 W. The king at his bishop's second square. B. The queen's bishop's pawn one move. 18 W. The knight at his queen's bishop's third square. B. The queen's bishop at his third square. 19 W. The knight takes the knight.. B. The pawn retakes the knight. 20 W. The king's bishop at his king's second square. B. The queen's rook at its king's knight's square. 21 W. The queen's bishop at his third square. B. The king's knight's pawn takes the pawn. 22 W. The bishop takes the rookt. bishop with his queen's knight, to compel you to give him check; and in this case, he, playing his king at his bishop's second square, had gained the move upon you, and a very good situation for game. * You advance this pawn to prevent your adversary from putting three pawns in front, which he would have done by pushing only his king's pawn. + If you had retaken his pawn with your knight's pawn, he would have pushed his queen's pawn upon your bishop, and afterwards would have entered your game with a check of his rook, sustained by his queen's bishop; and if you had taken this pawn with your king's pawn, he might have done the same; which would have given B. The pawn takes the king's pawn giving check. 23 W. The king retakes the pawn. B. The rook takes the bishop. 24 W. The king's bishop at his third square. B. The king at his third square. 25 W. The king's rook at its queen's second square. B. The queen's pawn gives check. 26. W. The king at his bishop's second square. B. The queen's bishop at the white king's fourth square. 27 W. The queen's rook at its king's square. B. The king at his queen's fourth square. 28 W. The king's rook at its king's second square. B. The rook at its king's square. 29 W. The king's knight's pawn one move. B. The bishop takes the bishop. 30 W. The rook takes the rook. B. The pawn takes the pawn. 31 W. The king's rook's pawn one move. B. The queen's bishop's pawn one move. 32 W. The king's rook at the black king's rook's square. B. The queen's pawn one move. 33 W. The king at his third square. B. The king's bishop gives check at his queen's bishop's fourth square. 34 W. The king at his bishop's fourth square, having no other place. him a very good game, because one of his pawns being then passed (that is to say, a pawn that can be no more stopped but by pieces) will infallibly cost a piece to hinder the making of a queen. B B B. The queen's pawn one move, and wins the game*. SECOND BACK GAME. Beginning at the third Move of the Queen's Gambit. 3. W. THE king's pawn two steps. B. The queen's knight's pawn two steps. 4 W. The queen's rook's pawn two steps. B. The queen's bishop's pawn one step. 5 W. The queen's knight's pawn one step. B. The gambit pawn takes the pawnt. 6 W. The rook's pawn takes the pawn. B. The queen's bishop's pawn takes the pawn. 7 W. The king's bishop takes the B. The bishop covers the check. B. The bishop takes the bishop. 9 W. The queen retakes the bishop, and gives check. B. The queen covers the check. *The loss of this game shews the strength of two bishops against the rooks, particularly when the king is placed between two pawns. But if instead of employing your rooks to make war against his pawns, you had, on the thirty-first move, played your rook at the black queen's square; on the thirty-second move brought your other rook at your adversary's king's second square; and on the thirty-third move sacrificed your first rook for his king's bishop; you had made it a drawn game. It is of the same consequence in the attack of the queen's gambit to separate the adversary's pawns on that side, as it is in the king's gambit to separate them on the king's side. |
