William Lewis Chess Probl.Pdf

CHESS PROBLEMS

being a selection of original positions; to which are

added others, extracted from rare and valuable

works forming together one hundred ends of games;

won or drawn by brilliant and scienti c moves; to

which are added the names of the authors.

W. Lewis

teacher of chess

[ 1827 ]

An Electronic Edition

Anders ulin, Malmö · Preliminary edition

PREFACE

Ends of Games or Positions won or drawn by masterly moves, have

always been considered by the best Chess players and writers as emi-

nently useful, if not absolutely necessary towards forming the nished

player; and though many excellent ones have already been published,

yet I am not without hopes that the following work will be favourably

received by the Chess world, as it contains forty-eight original posi-

tions, besides others extracted from authors little known even to the

good Chess player, none of them having been copied from Stamma’s

Work, the Stratagems of Chess, Sarratt’s Treatise, or the Oriental Chess.

I have endeavoured as much as possible to select such Positions as

are instructive as well as amusing; accordingly, the reader will observe,

that there are many in which the White, though unable to checkmate

in a given number of moves, can yet acquire such a superiority as to

have a winning game. Such positions are generally the most improv-

ing. Among those in which the number of moves is xed, will be found

many in which as the White is not exposed to an immediate check-

mate, it by no means follows that he must give check every move: such

positions are more di cult than those in which from the situation of

the pieces it is evident the Black must be checked every move.

I defer for the present publishing the Solutions, that the reader may

solve the Problems without being tempted to refer to the Key. ey

will however be printed in the course of the present year; and though

in such a work it is next to impossible to be perfectly accurate, yet I

believe very few errors will be found. In some perhaps the checkmate

may be delayed for a move or two by a useless sacri ce, an instance of

which occurs in the Forty- fth Situation, in which the mate cannot be

given in less than ten moves.