Second Regular Party,
Reading edition
VARIANT FROM THE FIRST PARTY, AT THE SECOND MOVE OF THE BLACK.
1.
W. The king’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The same.
2.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
3.
W. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
B. King’s bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.
4.
W. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.(a)
B. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
(a) Though stationing the pieces before the pawns must not be wantonly engaged in, I think this play is necessary in the present situation, to keep the advantage of the move; nevertheless, you might at the fourth move push your king’s bishop’s pawn two squares: such a game, though it embarks in danger, is calculated to disconcert a mere observer of routine, to whom some advantage is given.
5.
W. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
B. The king castles.(b)
6.
W. Queen’s rook’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The same.(c)
7.
W. The king castles.
B. Queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.(d)
8.
W. The bishop takes the bishop.
B. The pawn takes the bishop.
(b) If, instead of castling, he had played his queen’s bishop to your king’s knight’s fourth, you might have played your queen to her knight’s third, which would have given you the game; but should he play the same bishop to his king’s third, take him with yours, and afterwards play your queen to her knight’s third.
(c) If he had not adopted counterplay, his king’s bishop must have been forced by your pawns.
(d) Had he played this bishop to your king’s knight’s fourth, you must have pushed your queen’s pawn; and, varying again, if he take your king’s knight with his bishop, you take with your knight’s pawn, the better to bring your rooks into play, as they then have an approach to the pawns that cover the adverse king.
9.
W. The queen at her knight’s 3d.(e)
B. The queen at her bishop’s square.
10.
W. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
B. The king’s pawn takes the pawn.
11.
W. The pawn takes the pawn.
B. The bishop at his queen’s knight’s 3d.(f)
12.
W. Queen’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. The same.
13.
W. Queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.
B. King’s knight at the adverse king’s knight’s 4th.
(e) Your queen attacks two pawns, which your adversary can only sustain by placing his queen at her bishop’s square; this situation may take place in the first moves of a party, and very frequently your adversary finds himself unable to sustain the two pawns at once.
(f) If he had played his bishop to your queen’s knight’s fourth, your must have sustained your king’s pawn with your queen.
14.
W. King’s rook’s pawn 1 square.(g)
B. The knight takes the bishop.
15.
W. The pawn takes the knight.
B. King’s rook’s pawn 1 square.(h)
16.
W. King’s knight’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The same.
17.
W. King’s rook at its bishop’s 2d.
B. The queen at her 2d square.
(g) You thus force the knight to retreat or to take, which is better than suffering him to hover over the pieces, to make a capture at his own discretion.
(h) He plays this pawn to hinder your knight from attacking his king’s pawn, as otherwise he would be forced to defend it with his rook, which would afford you time to double your rooks on the file of your king’s bishop. It is proper to observe, that in almost every case, whoever commands an opening with double rooks, must have the advantage; it is therefore an established maxim not to yield up these passes.
18.
W. Queen’s rook at its king’s bishop’s square.
B. The king at his knight’s 2d.(i)
(i) So situated, the white must have chiefly in view to oblige the adversary to push his king’s pawn a square, so that he may place a knight, sustained by two pawns, at the fourth square of the adverse king’s bishop, which ought to decide the game in his favour: the black will, in opposition, seek the means of doubling the two rooks, and bring the queen’s bishop’s pawn into play, by pushing him two squares.