Contents

Chapter 1
First Principles
1. Simple Mates 1
2. Pawn Promotion 3
3. Pawn Endings 4
4. Some Winning Positions in the Middlegame 6
5. Relative Value of the Pieces 8
6. General Strategy of the Opening 9
7. Control of the Centre 9
8. Traps 11
Chapter 2
Endgame Principles
9. A Cardinal Principle 12
10. A Classical Ending 12
11. Obtaining a Passed Pawn 13
12. How to find out Which Pawn will be First to
Queen 14
13. The Opposition 14
14. The Relative Value of Knight and Bishop 16
15. How to Mate with a Knight and a Bishop 20
16. Queen against Rook 20
Chapter 3
Planning a Win in Middlegame Play
17. Attacking Without the Aid of Knights 22
18. Attacking with Knights as a Prominent Force 23
19. Winning by Indirect Attack 24
Chapter 4
General Theory
20. The Initiative 25
21. Direct Attacks en Masse 25
22. The Force of the Threatened Attack 26
23. Relinquishing the Initiative 27
24. Cutting Off Pieces from the Scene of Action 28
25. A Player's Motives Criticized in a Specimen
Game 30
Chapter 5
Endgame Strategy
26. The Sudden Attack from a Different Side 32
27. The Danger of a Safe Position 34
28. Endings with One Rook and Pawns 35
29. A Difficult Ending: Two Rooks and Pawns 36
30. Rook, Bishop and Pawns vs. Rook, Knight and
Pawns 38
Chapter 6
Further Openings and Middlegames
31. Some Salient Points about Pawns 40
32. Some Possible Developments from a Ruy Lopez
41
33. The Influence of a "Hole" 42
Chapter 7
Illustrative Games
Game 1 Marshall, F – Capablanca, J 1-0 45
Game 2 Rubinstein, A - Capablanca, J 1-0 46
Game 3 Janowski, D - Capablanca, J 1-0 47
Game 4 Capablanca, J - Znosko Borovsky, E 0-1 48
Game 5 Lasker, E - Capablanca, J 1-0 49
Game 6 Chajes, O - Capablanca, J 1-0 51
Game 7 Capablanca, J - Burn, A 1-0 53
Game 8 Mieses, J - Capablanca , J 0-1 54
Game 9 Capablanca, J - Teichmann, R 1-0 55
Game 10 Capablanca, J – Marshall, F 1-0 56
Game 11 Capablanca, J - Janowski, D 1-0 57
Game 12 Capablanca, J – Chajes, O 1-0 58
Game 13 Morrison, J - Capablanca, J 0-1 59
Game 14 Marshall, F - Capablanca, J 0-1 60