Excerpt from Synopsis of Chess Openings: A Tabular AnalysisThe tables are so arranged that each column contains the moves of a sin gle variation. The moves are expressed as fractions; the move of the first player, whom we invariably call White, being above the line, and the move of the second player, Black, below.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.