Stamma, Philippe. Essai sur le jeu des échecs. View Watchlist >
The Hague, Antoine van Dole, 1741
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Stamma, Philippe. Essai sur le jeu des échecs. Où l'on donne quelques Règles pour le bien jouer, & remporter l'avantage par les Coups fins & subtils, que l'on peut appeller les Secrets de ce jeu. Par...Stamma, Natif d'Alep en Syria. A La Haye, chez Antoine van Dole, M.DCC.XLI (The Hague, Antoine van Dole, 1741). With 1 titlepage in red and 2 fold-out diagrams after pages 16 and 18. 160 pages. Van der Linde I, 379; L/N 422. Kieler Schachkatalog 1176.
Philipp Stamma was a renowned Syrian chess master of the 18th century. As early as 1737, he published his collection of endgame studies. His greatest achievement is the invention of a shorthand notation, which, in a slightly improved form, is still used today. "For the first time it was possible to place the move and its reply on a single line, and to introduce order and ease of reference for the unattractive record of older works" (Murray, p. 848).
Condition: Contemporary binding. From David DeLucia's Chess Library.
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