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A Complete Guide to the Game of Chess, from the Alphabet to the Solution and Construction of Problems. By H. F. L. Meyer. (Griffith and Farran.)—This is rather a fantastic guide to chess, inasmuch as it gives now names to almost all the pieces, in order that they may be symbolised by the successive letters KLM N 0. Thus K is King, L stands for Lady Queen, M (the rook) for Monument, N (the bishop) for Neighbour (because he is neighbour to King or Queen), and 0 (the knight) for Overleaper. We see no particular gain in the use of these letters for the pieces, certainly none sufficiently great to compensate for this fantastic nomenclature, which renders the book at first strange and useless to the student who has not mastered this nomenclature. Otherwise, Mr. Meyer seems a skilful player, and a good teacher, of this delightful game.
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