BY
FRANKLIN K. YOUNG
Vol. I.
GRAND RECONNAISSANCE.
“He who first devised chessplay, made a model of theArt Militarie, representing therein all the concurrentsand contemplations of War, without omitting any.”
“Examen de Ingenios.”
Juan Huarte, 1616.
“Chess is the deepest of all games; it is constructed tocarry out the principal of a battle, and the whole theory ofChess lies in that form of action.”
Emanuel Lasker.
BOSTON
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.
1910
Copyright, 1910,
By Franklin K. Young.
Entered at Stationers’ Hall.
All rights reserved.
“Chess is the gymnasium for the mind—it does for thebrain what athletics does for the body.”
Henry Thomas Buckle.
George E. Crosby Co., Printers, Boston, Mass.
YOUNG’S CHESS WORKS
| Minor Tactics of Chess | $1.00 |
| An eminently attractive treatment of the game of Chess.—Scientific American. | |
| Major Tactics of Chess | 2.50 |
| In this book one finds the principles of strategy and logistics applied to Chess in a unique and scientific way.—Army and Navy Register. | |
| Grand Tactics of Chess | 3.50 |
| For the student who desires to enter the broader channels of Chess, the best books are by FRANKLIN K. YOUNG: his “Minor Tactics” and his more elaborate “Grand Tactics” are the most important productions of modern Chess literature.—American Chess Magazine. | |
| Chess Strategetics Illustrated | 2.50 |
| We know no work outside of the masterpieces of Newton, Hamilton and Darwin, which so organizes and systematizes human thought.—Chicago Evening Post. |
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