THIRD GAMBIT,
Reading edition
WITH THREE BACK GAMES:
The First on the Second, the Second on the Third, and the Third on the Eleventh Move of the Black.
1.
W. The king’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The same.
2.
W. King’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.
B. Queen’s pawn 2 squares.(a) ☜
3.
W. The king’s pawn takes the pawn.
B. The queen takes the pawn.(b) ☜
(a) If he had pushed this pawn but one square, it would have entirely changed the game; therefore, I make it the subject of a back game.
N. B. It is the best way of playing it, in order to avoid the snares of your adversary in the Gambit, when you receive the advantage of a piece.
(b) He might take your king’s bishop’s pawn with his king’s pawn; the basis of a material change, and the subject of a back game.
4.
W. The pawn takes the pawn.
B. The queen takes the pawn and gives check.
5.
W. The bishop covers the check.(c)
B. King’s bishop at his queen’s 3d.
6.
W. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. The queen at her king’s 2d.
7.
W. Queen’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.
8.
W. The king castles.
B. Queen’s knight at his queen’s 2d.
9.
W. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
10.
W. Queen’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
(c) So situated, the game must appear equal: but on a minute balance the advantage is in your scale, because on your left wing you have four connected pawns, whilst your adversary’s pawns are in divisions of three and three, and all separated from the centre.
11.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s 3d.
B. The king castles with his rook.(d) ☜
12.
W. Queen’s bishop at the adverse king’s knight’s 4th.(e)
B. King’s rook’s pawn 1 square.
13.
W. Queen’s bishop at his king’s rook’s 4th.
B. The queen at her own square.
14.
W. Queen’s knight at his king’s 4th.(f)
B. King’s bishop at his king’s 2d.
(d) It was indifferent to him whether he castled on the king’s or on the queen’s side. After the manœuvre of castling, I have already given a general rule for impelling your pawns, against his covering pawns; however, for illustration, I shall give a back game on that duplicate move.
(e) This would have been wrong had he not castled on his king’s side, because by pushing his king’s rook’s pawn, he had forced your bishop to retire; but, at present, it is your interest to excite him to push the pawns that cover his king, to prepare a breach for the attack.
(f) If he had not removed his queen, to replace her with the king’s bishop, the play of this knight would have perplexed his game.
15.
W. The queen at her king’s 2d.
B. The queen at her bishop’s 2d.(g)
16.
W. The knight takes the knight.
B. The knight takes the knight.
17.
W. The bishop takes the knight.
B. The bishop takes the bishop.
18.
W. The queen at her king’s 4th.
B. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
19.
W. The knight at the adverse king’s 4th.
B. The bishop takes the knight.(h)
(g) If, instead of playing his queen, he had taken your knight, you must have taken his knight with your queen; forcing him to derange his pieces, by manœuvering to save the mate, with which he would be threatened.
(h) If, instead of taking, he had withdrawn his bishop, you would then have taken his king’s knight’s pawn with your knight, and that would have given you the game.
20.
W. The pawn takes the bishop.
B. Queen’s rook at his queen’s square.(i)
21.
W. King’s rook at the adverse king’s bishop’s 3d.
B. The queen at her 2d square.(k)
22.
W. The king’s rook takes the king’s knight’s pawn, and gives check.
B. The pawn takes the rook.
23.
W. The queen takes the pawn, and gives check.
B. The king at his rook’s square.(l)
(i) If he had attacked your queen with his bishop, instead of playing his rook, you would have taken his bishop with your king’s rook; this, by making an opening upon his king, would have given you an easier attack.
(k) If he had not played his queen to this square, you must have taken his bishop with your rook, and that would have secured the game.
(l) If, instead of withdrawing his king, he had covered him with his queen, you must have taken his bishop, giving him check; and you would have been left on the right wing with two pawns and a bishop against a rook only, added to a good attack, which, improved, would be sufficient to win the game; but, as he has played his king instead of his queen, you cannot do better than make an end of the party by a drawn game, with a perpetual check.
24.
W. The queen takes the pawn, and gives a perpetual check.
FIRST BACK GAME,
TO THE THIRD GAMBIT,
On the Second Move of the Black.
2.
W. King’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.
B. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
3.
W. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. Queen’s bishop at the adverse king’s knight’s 4th.
4.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. Queen’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
5.
W. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
B. The bishop takes the knight.
6.
W. The queen takes the bishop.
B. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
7.
W. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
B. Queen’s knight at his rook’s 4th.
8.
W. The king’s bishop gives check at the adverse
queen’s knight’s 4th.
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
9.
W. The bishop at his queen’s rook’s 4th.
B. Queen’s knight’s pawn 2 squares.
10.
W. The bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 2d square.
B. King’s bishop at his king’s 2d.
11.
W. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
B. The king’s pawn takes the queen’s pawn.
12.
W. The pawn takes the pawn.
B. The king castles.
13.
W. Queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.
B. Queen’s knight at the white queen’s bishop’s 4th.
14.
W. Queen’s knight at his queen’s 2d.
B. The queen’s knight takes the pawn.
15.
W. King’s knight’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The queen’s knight returns to the white queen’s bishop’s 4th.
16.
W. The knight takes the knight.
B. The pawn takes the knight.
17.
W. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
B. The knight at his queen’s 2d.
18.
W. King’s rook’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The queen gives check.
19.
W. The king at his queen’s square.
B. The queen at the white queen’s rook’s 3d.
20.
W. Queen’s rook at his bishop’s square.
B. The queen takes the queen’s rook’s pawn.
21.
W. The queen at the black king’s rook’s 4th.
B. Queen’s rook at his knight’s square.
22.
W. King’s pawn 1 square.
B. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
23.
W. The queen at her king’s 2d.
B. Queen’s rook at the white queen’s knight’s 2d.
24.
W. King’s rook’s pawn 1 square.
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
25.
W. The king’s rook’s pawn takes the pawn.
B. The king’s bishop’s pawn takes the pawn.
26.
W. The king’s rook takes the pawn.
B. The king takes the rook.
27.
W. The queen gives check at the adverse king’s rook’s 4th.
B. The king where he can.
28.
W. The queen taking the pawn gives check
—makes the following move.
SECOND BACK GAME,
TO THE THIRD GAMBIT,
On the Third Move of the Black.
3.
W. The king’s pawn takes the pawn.
B. The king’s pawn takes the pawn.
4.
W. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. The queen takes the pawn.
5.
W. Queen’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The queen gives check at the adverse king’s 4th.
6.
W. The king at his bishop’s 2d.
B. King’s bishop at his king’s 2d.
7.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s 3d.
B. The queen at her bishop’s 3d.
8.
W. The queen’s bishop takes the pawn.
B. Queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.
9.
W. The queen at her king’s 2d.
B. The queen at her own 2d.
10.
W. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
11.
W. Queen’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
12.
W. King’s rook’s pawn 1 square.
B. The king castles.
13.
W. King’s knight’s pawn 2 squares.
B. King’s bishop at his queen’s 3d.
14.
W. King’s knight at the black king’s 4th.
B. The bishop takes the knight.
15.
W. The pawn takes the bishop.
B. King’s knight at his king’s square.
16.
W. Queen’s rook at his queen’s square.
B. The queen at her king’s 2d.
17.
W. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
B. Queen’s knight at his queen’s 2d.
18.
W. The queen at the black king’s rook’s 4th.
B. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
19.
W. The queen at the adverse king’s rook’s 3d.
B. The queen gives check.
20.
W. The king at his knight’s 3d.
B. The queen’s knight takes the king’s pawn.
21.
W. The knight at his king’s 4th.
B. The queen at the adverse queen’s 4th.
22.
W. The knight gives check at the adverse king’s bishop’s 3d.
B. The knight takes the knight.
23.
W. The pawn takes the knight.
B. The game is lost, the mate being forced.[30]
THIRD BACK GAME,
TO THE THIRD GAMBIT,
On the Eleventh Move of the Black.
11.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s 3d.
B. The king castles on his queen’s side.
12.
W. King’s rook at his king’s square.
B. The queen retires to her king’s bishop’s square.
13.
W. The queen at her rook’s 4th.
B. The king at his queen’s knight’s square.
14.
W. Queen’s bishop at his king’s 3d.
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.
15.
W. Queen’s pawn 1 square.
B. Queen’s bishop at the adverse king’s knight’s 4th.
16.
W. Queen’s knight’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The bishop takes the knight.
17.
W. The pawn takes the bishop.
B. Queen’s rook at his bishop’s square.
18.
W. The knight at the adverse queen’s knight’s 4th.
B. Queen’s rook’s pawn 1 square.
19.
W. The knight takes the bishop.
B. The queen takes the knight.
20.
W. Queen’s rook at his knight’s square.
B. Queen’s knight at his king’s 4th.
21.
W. King’s bishop at his king’s 2d.
B. King’s knight at his queen’s 2d.
22.
W. The queen at the adverse queen’s rook’s 4th.
B. The queen gives check at her king’s knight’s 3d.
23.
W. The king at his rook’s square.
B. The queen returns to her 3d square.
24.
W. The pawn takes the pawn.
B. The knight takes the pawn.
25.
W. Queen’s rook at the adverse queen’s knight’s 3d.
B. The queen at her king’s bishop’s square.
26.
W. King’s rook at his queen’s knight’s square.
B. The knight from his king’s 4th to his queen’s 2d.
27.
W. The queen’s rook takes the rook’s pawn.
B. The knight takes the rook.
28.
W. The queen takes the knight.
B. The queen’s rook at his bishop’s 2d.
29.
W. The queen’s pawn 1 square, and wins the game.
If, at the 28th move, the king, instead of the rook, be placed at the bishop’s second, the game may be protracted, though the mate cannot be finally eluded.—The practice of forbearing to involve the king in the conflicts of the field, is a necessary part of good play; but a mechanical habit of leaving him inactive, without reflecting whether a sally would or would not promote his defence, must be kept from insinuating into the player’s manner.