Ebook: Battles Royal of the Chessboard

Many collections of games have been made in which the bril­liancies which are beyond the average player are beautifully displayed. We admire them but cannot relate them to our own play over the board. We watch the defeated master in the ineluctable toils, but our own opponents wriggle out of our best laid schemes and as like as not we then have to struggle to avoid defeat ourselves; we seek to attain supremacy only to find our opponent securing the ascendancy on some other part of the board. This is chess as we know it and as we have to play it.