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The following is an e-text of "Chess Strategy," second edition, (1915) by Edward Lasker, translated by J. Du Mont. This e-text contains the 167 chess and checkers board game diagrams appearing in the original book, all in the form of ASCII line drawings. The following is a key to the diagrams: For chess pieces, R = Rook Kt = Knight B = Bishop Q = Queen K = King P = Pawn Black pieces have a # symbol to the left of them, while white pieces have a ^ symbol to the left of them. For example, .#B is the. | Chess Strategy Produced by John Mamoun mamounjo@ Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreaders website. INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION The following is an e-text of Chess Strategy second edition 1915 by Edward Lasker translated by J. Du Mont. This e-text contains the 167 chess and checkers board game diagrams appearing in the original book all in the form of ASCII line drawings. The following is a key to the diagrams For chess pieces R Rook Kt Knight B Bishop Q Queen K King P Pawn Black pieces have a symbol to the left of them while white pieces have a A symbol to the left of them. For example B is the Black bishop while AB is the white bishop. Kt is the black knight while AKt is the white knight. This will let the reader instantly tell by sight which pieces in the ASCII chess diagrams are black and which are white. Those who find these diagrams hard to read should feel free to set up them up on a game board using the actual pieces. CONTENTS TRANSLATOR S PREFACE AUTHOR S PREFACE PART I I. INTRODUCTORY I. Rules of the Game II. Notation II. HINTS FOR BEGINNERS Elementary Combinations Simple Calculation Complications III. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHESS STRATEGY Introductory Balance of Attack and Defence Mobility IV. THE OPENING Development of the Pieces On Losing Moves Examples of Practical Play Pawn Play Pawn Skeleton The Centre A. King s Pawn Games B. Queen s Pawn Games C. Irregular Openings V. THE END-GAME End-games with Pieces Pawn Endings Mixed Endings END-GAMES FROM MASTER-PLAY Teichmann-Blackburne Berlin 1897 Ed. Lasker-Rotlewi Hamburg 1910 Blackburne-Schlechter Vienna 1898 Bird-Janowski Hastings 1895 Steiner-Forgacz Szekesfehervar 1907