I was just having a look at chessgames games of the day. Have a quick peak at this...
Franklin Knowles Young v L Dore
Not too shabby. "Who is this Franklin Knowles Young fella then?" i think to myself. So i click through to his profile page and get this description...
Franklin Knowles Young was born in Boston and died in Winthrop, Massachusetts. He was an American author who tried to apply battlefield principles to the chessboard in a number of books. They were full of incomprehensibilities such as, "The normal formative processes of a Logistic Grand Battle consist, first, in Echeloning by RP to QR4 and then in Aligning the Left Major Front Refused en Potence by the development of QKtP to QKt5, followed by Doubly Aligning the Left Major Front Refused and Aligned by developing QRP to QR5." His books have been the subject of ridicule from the time they were published until the present day.
Obviously the guy had no redeeming features! JEEEEEZ...
31 May 14
Originally posted by MarinkatombI read The "Grand Tactics of Chess" when I was a young man. It was a difficult read to say the least. But I believe I learned from it.
I was just having a look at chessgames games of the day. Have a quick peak at this...
Franklin Knowles Young v L Dore
[pgn][Event "Boston"]
[Site "Boston"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Franklin Knowles Young"]
[Black "L Dore"]
[ECO "C21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "43"]
1. e4 e5 2. ...[text shortened]... lished until the present day.[/i]
Obviously the guy had no redeeming features! JEEEEEZ...[/b]
31 May 14
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Originally posted by ChessPraxishttp://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_grand_tactics_of_chess.html?id=ZXUCAAAAYAAJ
I read The "Grand Tactics of Chess" when I was a young man. It was a difficult read to say the least. But I believe I learned from it.
"The Grand Tactics of Chess: An Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the Practical Application of These Laws and Principles to the Movement of Forces: Mobilization, Development, Manoeuvre, and Operation"
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I MUST find a copy of this!! 😵
EDIT: Here's an Edward winter article on him...
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/young.html
EDIT II: Wow, i've found one of his books as an ebook. Check out the description..
"Written in 1898, the stated purpose of this book is to elucidate those processes upon which every ruse, trick, artifice, and strategem known in chessplay, is founded; consequently, this treatise is devoted to teaching the student how to win hostile pieces, to queen his pawns, and to checkmate the adverse king. All the processes are determinate, and if the opponent becomes involved in any one of them, he should lose the game."
Who talks like that? I mean seriously...
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=6938
31 May 14
Originally posted by TommovichYou can say that again! Check out this quote..
Franklin Knowles Young wrote several books around the turn of the century, which can be read for free at https://archive.org/
I've just had a quick look and can't say I've seen any other instructional chess books quite like them...
Quote: "Note, the pawn, having the move, advances along its front offensive to that point were it's logistic symbol and it's geometric symbol intersect"
Yes, that's definitely the most economical way to explain what a pawn fork is, LOL!
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31 May 14
Originally posted by MarinkatombIndeed! How about this from The Major Tactics of Chess:
You can say that again! Check out this quote..
Quote: "Note, the pawn, having the move, advances along its front offensive to that point were it's logistic symbol and it's geometric symbol intersect"
Yes, that's definitely the most economical way to explain what a pawn fork is, LOL!
"Pawn and Knight versus Knight"
"Whenever a point of junction is the vertex of a mathematical figure formed by the union of the logistic symbol of a pawn with an oblique, diagonal, horizontal or vertical from the logistic symbol of any kindred piece; then the given combination of two kindred pieces wins any given adverse piece."
Phew! And it's like this all the way through the book...
Still, this book is a gem, and if I'm lucky enough to find a copy in my local second-hand bookshop I shall be a happy man.
31 May 14
Originally posted by TommovichLOL, amazing! There is a copy on amazon.com... 😉
Indeed! How about this from The Major Tactics of Chess:
"Pawn and Knight versus Knight"
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"Whenever a point of junction is the vertex of a mathematical figure formed by the union of the logistic symbol of a pawn with an oblique, diagonal, horizontal or vertical from the logistic symbol of any kindred piece; then the ...[text shortened]... and if I'm lucky enough to find a copy in my local second-hand bookshop I shall be a happy man.
31 May 14
Originally posted by MarinkatombGrampy Bobby 😕
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_grand_tactics_of_chess.html?id=ZXUCAAAAYAAJ
"The Grand Tactics of Chess: An Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the Practical Application of These Laws and Principles to the Movement of Forces: Mobilization, Development, Manoeuvre, and Operation"
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I ...[text shortened]... n any one of them, he should lose the game."[/i]
Who talks like that? I mean seriously...