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Excerpt from The Minor Tactics of Chess: A Treatise on the Development of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic PrincipleN this contribution to the literature of chess the authors have attempted to present the elements of a new theory of playr They have confined themselves, in the main, to the exposition of that part of the System which governs the opening of a game; by suggestion, however, if not by definite statement, they hope to have laid before the reader at least the spirit of the complete theory. Leibnitz pronounced chess'an exact sci ence, Petroff placed it on a level with the integral calculus, and the great 'anderssen declared that its intricacies were more abstruse than the most pro found mathematics; the a'uthors of the new theory, agreeing with this trio of distinguished scholars, are tempted to go still further, and to assert, even at the peril of being considered somewhat visionary, not only-that Chess is a real.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.