Fourth Regular Party,
Reading edition
Variant from the First Party on the Third Move of the Black,
WITH ONE BACK GAME;
On the Fifth Move of the White.
1.
W. The king’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The same.
2.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. The same.
3.
W. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
B. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
4.
W. Queen’s pawn 2 squares.(a)
B. The pawn takes the pawn.
(a) You might push this pawn only one square, but then your situation would be the same, as that already shewn in the first variation.
5.
W. The pawn takes the pawn.(b) ☜
B. The king’s bishop gives check.(c)
6.
W. The queen’s bishop covers the check.
B. The bishop takes the bishop.
7.
W. The queen’s knight takes the bishop.
B. Queen’s pawn 2 squares.(d)
8.
W. The king’s pawn takes the pawn.
B. The knight takes the pawn.
9.
W. The queen at her knight’s 3d.(e)
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
(b) Instead of taking, you might push the king’s pawn a square, which would not be amiss against a player to whom some advantage is given. The subject of a back game.
(c) Had he removed his bishop to his queen’s knight’s third, he would have committed himself, and conspired to establish your pawns in the centre.
(d) Had he not played in this manner, he would have given you time to occupy the centre with your pawns.
(e) You might give check with your queen at your king’s second square, but this move would enable your adversary to educe his queen’s bishop; besides, the king and queen are, generally, not to be placed on the same line, especially when the file is left open by the exchange of each party’s pawn.
10.
W. King’s knight at his king’s 2d.
B. The king castles.
11.
W. The king castles with his rook.
B. King’s knight at his queen’s knight’s 3d.(f)
12.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s 3d.
B. Queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.
13.
W. The queen at her bishop’s 2d.
B. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
14.
W. King’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.(g)
B. The same.(h)
(f) He plays this with a view, either to get out his queen’s bishop, or to remove your king’s bishop.
(g) You push this pawn to break the chain of pawns that cover his king.
(h) As he has pushed his king’s bishop’s pawn two squares, you must endeavour to post one of your knights at the adverse king’s fourth square, from whence he cannot be removed but by an exchange, and an exchange will unite your pawns in the centre.
15.
W. Queen’s knight at his king’s bishop’s 3d.
B. Queen’s knight at his queen’s 2d.
16.
W. Queen’s knight at the adverse king’s 4th.
B. Queen’s knight at his king’s bishop 3d.(i)
17.
W. Queen’s rook at its queen’s square.
B. King’s knight at his queen’s 4th.
18.
W. The queen at her 2d square.(k)
B. Queen’s rook’s pawn 2 squares.
19.
W. King’s knight at his queen’s bishop’s 3d.(l)
(i) He will not concentre your pawns by taking your knight.
(k) This move is necessary, to prevent his knight from occupying your king’s third square.
(l) I should think the white has the better game, on account of the place where the queen’s knight stands; however, such an advantage, unaccompanied by any other, is not decisive: the black must not take the knight before he has displaced one of the pawns that sustain the knight, which may be done by changing the queen’s bishop’s pawn for the adverse queen’s pawn, and then both games will be even.
FIRST BACK GAME,
On the Fifth Move of the White.
5.
W. The king’s pawn 1 square.
B. The queen at her king’s 2d.(a)
6.
W. The queen’s bishop’s pawn takes the pawn.
B. The King’s bishop gives check.
7.
W. The queen’s bishop covers the check.(b)
B. The king’s bishop takes the bishop.
8.
W. The queen’s knight takes the bishop.
B. Queen’s pawn 1 square.(c)
(a) Had he withdrawn his knight, that move alone would have given you the game.
(b) You might cover check with your queen’s knight, placing him at his bishop’s third, and if he then played his king’s knight to your king’s fourth, you would not be without means of sustaining your centre; in that situation, his best play would be to push his queen’s pawn two squares.
(c) Had he pushed this pawn two squares, your centre would have been safe.
9.
W. The queen at her king’s 2d.(d)
B. The queen’s pawn takes the pawn.
10.
W. The queen’s pawn takes the pawn.
B. King’s knight at his queen’s 2d.
11.
W. King’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.
B. King’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
12.
W. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. The king’s bishop’s pawn takes the pawn.(e)
(d) If your king’s bishop’s pawn had been played two squares, he might have broken your pawns, by pushing his queen’s bishop’s pawn to the full extent.
(e) The black player has succeeded in breaking the white central pawns. The design of this back game is to prove, how dangerous it is, when two pawns stand on a front line in the centre, to advance one, before your adversary offers to change. You should wait the offer, and then the pawn may be pushed safely. If, even after you had incautiously assailed the knight with your pawn, instead of pushing his queen’s and his bishop’s pawn one square only, he had advanced either of them two squares, offering to change, your centre would have remained safe.