The Modern Chess l74strucio7^ 



A FEW OF THE COMMENTS ON PART I. 



" Steinitz's long expected work is at last before the public, and we may honestly say that, taking 

 the First Part as an average of the whole, it surpasses anticipation. To avow that the analytical 

 result of the author's thirty odd years of laborious industry smashes up every preconceived idea 

 of Chess Openings and the theory of the game in general, would involve an amount of research 

 utterly beyond our present scope or field, for there are about fifty solid pages devoted to Kuy 

 Lopez and its modern developments alone, but it is fair to state right away that this is, in our 

 opinion, the first part of an altogether original and unique campaign upon the accepted theory of 

 the intricacies of chess, and perhaps the first attempted complete treatise on the game in any 

 language, since that of Howard Staunton. . . . The book has a noble appearance, the paper 

 and type being eminently suitable, and the 170 diagrams well placed and clearly printed." — Balti- 

 more Sunday News, Baltimore, Md. 



Part I. of this great work has just made its appearam e ; and may now be had of all booksellers 

 in England and America. . . . Our readers should ortkr it without delay of their nearest 

 bookseller or direct of the publishers (27 King William Street, Strand, London). The book is in 

 every way worthy of the unrivalled powers and reputation of its illustrious author. It must, as 

 we ventured to predict, make an epoch in the history of the game; and the foundations are therein 

 laid for raising the game to the rank of a science, a position to which up to now it has not in our 

 judgment a just claim. . . . We would earnestly exhort each of our readers to procure a 

 copy for themselves. Chess is one of the most inexpensive as it is one of the most intellectual 

 amusements; and the amateur who would grudge the price of this work does not deserve the 

 name of a chess-player. With such a book for careful study and the opportunity of moderate 

 practice with strong opponents, few need despair of becoming fine chess-players. . . . Apart 

 from the merit of the subject-matter, it is by far the clearest and best work on Chess, both in 

 arrangement and typography, that we have ever seen." — Hereford Times, Hereford (Eng.). 



" The book is a marvel of cheapness, and it is the ablest treatise ever published upon the game 

 in this or any other age. Its author has the advantage of being, at the same time, the greatest 

 theorist, analyist, and player in the world. No professional or amateur can afford to be without 

 the work." — St. Paul Pioneer and Press, St. Paul, Minn. 



" We have seen Part 1., which is a handsome volume of 236 pages and is bound in cloth 

 extra, gilt, and typographically is far superior to any chess work which we have seen. 'We con- 

 gratulate the author, unquestionably the greatest chessist past or present, on the reception that his 

 book has met with, and wish him continued health and vigor to complete the great undertaking 

 which has been so successfully commenced." — Tlie Globe, St. John, N. B. 



" It is bound to be appealed to as a guide and standard for many years. If we may quote 

 ourselves: ' There is no science known among men in which knowledge is so little absolute as in 

 chess' ; and Mr. Steinitz recognizes this truth in his anticipations for the future of his most care- 

 fully elaborated conclusions. It is the glory of chess that it is conservatively progressive, and 

 this crowning work of our greatest living master gives us a comprehensive and reliable view of its 

 present attainments, and lays a broad and intelligible platform from which safely to ascend to 

 higher jilanes. Never was great chess master so tolerant of rivals or so catholic in his treatment 

 of mooted points. Of originality there is a refreshing abundance; of useless dogmatism, very 

 little ; of personal pomposity, none. And yet, as no man has or ever had a greater right to do. no 

 master treatise was ever more largely illu'^trated from the author's own practical experience." — 

 Neiv York Clipper. 



