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CHAPTER 1 THE BOARD AND THE GAME
CHAPTER 2 THE INDIVIDUAL PIECES AND THE THEORY OF CHECKMATE
CHAPTER 3 THEORY OF CHECKMATE-DETERMINATE CHECKMATES
CHAPTER 8 PROBLEMS, POSITIONS, AND SOLUTIONS
| Determinate Checkmates | 84 | |
| King and two Bishops against King | 85 | |
| King, Knight, and Bishop against King | 85 | |
| Examples | 89-90 | |
| Pawns and Pieces | 91 | |
| Pawn against Queen | 93 | |
| Knight and Pawn | 94 | |
| Bishop and Pawn against Knight | 96 | |
| " " " " Bishop | 98 | |
| " " " " Rook | 99 | |
| Bishop against Rook and Pawn | 99 | |
| Rook and Pawn | 101 | |
| Rook and Pawn against Queen | 104 | |
| Queen against Queen and Pawn | 108 | |
| King and Pawn | 109 | |
| King against King and Pawn | 112 | |
| Exchanging | 118 | |
| Guarding -- Examples | 119-124 | |
| Winning the Piece -- Examples | 124-136 | |
| Winning the Position -- Examples | 137-142 | |
| The Openings | 143 | |
| Damiano Gambit | 146 | |
| Greco " | 148 | |
| Queen's Bishop's Pawn | 149 | |
| Petroff's Defence | 149 | |
| Guioco Piano | 151 | |
| Two Knights' Game | 151 | |
| Knight's Game of Ruy Lopez | 152 | |
| Scotch Opening | 153 | |
| Evans Gambit | 154 | |
| Philidor's Defence (to K. Kt.'s Opening | 156 |
| The Lopez Gambit | 158 | |
| Lewis' Counter-Gambit | 159 | |
| The Counter-Gambit | 160 | |
| King's Knight's Defence | 161 | |
| The Italian Defence | 161 | |
| McDonnell's Double-Gambit | 162 | |
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| King's Bishop's Gambit | 163 | |
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| King's Knights Gambit | 164 | |
| The Cunningham | 166 | |
| Salvio | 168 | |
| Cochrane | 168 | |
| Muzio Gambit | 169 | |
| "Defeat" of the Muzio | 172 | |
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| Allgaier Gambit | 175 | |
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| Queen's Gambit | 176 | |
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| Sicilian Opening | 178 | |
| French Game | 179 | |
| Central Gambit | 180 | |
| Centre Counter-Gambit | 180 | |
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| Plan or Method | 185 | |
| Geometrical Illustration | 186 | |
| Illustrative Chess Positions | 188-190 |
| Outlines of Dispositions | 191 | |
| Applications to Games | 192-196 | |
| Continuations of the Principles and Applications | 196-228 | |
| Problems, etc. | 232 | |
| Solutions of Problems | 267 | |
| Solutions of Positions | 277 | |
| Appendix | 280 |