chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

ABBAAA DEFENCE.582, standard line, knosn
to porERro, iiBl published by HnschSilberschoidt.
1829, .nd played in lhe lournament Abbdia (now
Opatija) 1912iall8ames iD tbis event hadto begin
with rhe nNG's GAMB'r Accepted.
ABONYI GAMDIT, 690, the rENlrsoN GAMB",
tavourcd by the Hungarian mastei IsFAn Abonyi
(r88G1942).
aBRAHAMS VARIATION. 66 in the o!trENs
cAMur Declined. h the 1925 Llncashne CountY
Champuo\hrp thc Enelbh plcrcr CerdlLl AbrJ
hrms (l!07-8n1, pliyrng aCJinsr Hulmr\ inko'
duccd the nove ? . . . a5 and lhe gnme conrinued
8axb5Bxc3 9Bxc3nb5 10b3 Bb? 11bxc4b4
In rhis position it has yer 10 hc shown lhat White\
cenrral pawn nxioiily h oI more r(ount than
Bla.ks rwo passed paNns on the Oucen\ side.
Abrrhami playcd this lanation against hn coun
tyman William Winler (1898 1955) in 1929 and in
thc same year Wintcr played it againsl Notcboonr,
alter rhon il is sometines named.
The prccnmor, known lrom a l6tb cenlury
manuscript, vasPublishcd b,s Lqo in 160411d4
d5 2 c4 d&,1 3 c4 b5 ,l a,I.6 5 axbs cxb5 6 b3
b4 7 bxc,la5 8Bf,lNd7 I NA. Pietro CARRERA,
wriling in 1617. made his only criricisn ol Salvio's
analrsis in rhis variationr he suggesled 8 . . . Bd7
iasieid ora Nd?. or 9 Oa4 instead oI9 NA.
salvio nurscd his injured pride lor 17 yeais and
rhendcvotedachapleroiiis bookto a bitleratia.k
on Carera The.rgumenl wasPointless: all these
varialions give white a won g!ne.
ABU'L-FATII AHMAD, p[yer and author. lhe
suNivinx opies of his 1llh or l2th-ce.tury
manusc;pt- made in the Tadzhik languaee, indi
cate tnat he camelronSistnn, a land spanning thc
Alghan Iranian bordcri a l6th cenlury Pcnian
nanusoipt suggcsts he r.s an lndian. Three
copies ol hh manuscriPl were dkcovered in 1951.
theearlicst daiing from 1665i tNo areinBukh.raone
in sanartand, and tney may not accuratcly
renecl the original which was wiiitcn mo.e than
500 vca6 ea.iier. The contcnts include the usud
lege;ds oI the gamc\ origin, poeos, puzlcsi ten
opcnins systems (rA'BiY^r, and 287 MANSnB^r
A(ordrne ro Sorier sourks 127 of rhe man:nbar
.. nor ,; M' rk , H^r,.v ,f Cli?ss: bur thetr
style, judging lrom rhose Ln;{; oubidc Rusia. is
sinilar-which is nol snrprising lor the compiladon
was madc l.om the sane souras. lhe libraries ol
kfahan, Ray (near Tehran). and orher lslanic
cnies In 1024 Ab[ l-Qrsin Mahmnd rebuill
Ghazna (Afehanislai) as tbe caPiralol his newly
*on emprrr, and rhe srerr lbraries lere broughr
rhere$rih r rcn Jea6cnd \cre denro)ed whcn lhe
ciw Nas sacted-..1150. Abn'llath made his
coilcdio. in Ghazna and states thar he tftrelled to
India. Irao. and Klorasan, meetina none who
conld mat.lr him in plaY. IIe probanly comPosed
Iew mansnbat himsclfispecilically he laid claim lo
lbur. tbree of shich are based on $e work of
A study given by Ahn'l-fath (nansnba no. 233).
Thc pieces \ho\n rs quecn\ Jnd bishop\ dre
flNzlNs ind Fn\ re\pe.li!elv Whire Jru$\ bv
dnring thc black king round the board, a lavourite
ftemc (ofien usins kniphts rarher than a rook)
knosn as the sateNheel (ad dnhbiya). 1 Rg8+
Kd7 2Rd8+(c6 3Rd6+Kh5 'lRb6+ Kc4 5
Rb4+ Kd3 6Rd4+ Ke2 ?Rd2+KB 8RO+
(94 9Rt4+ (h5 10 Rh,l+ Kg6 11Rh6+ KO 12
Rl6+ Ke8 13Rl8+.Ii1...Kf? 2RA+ wirh
AcADtMtEs DEs JEUX, a Dame popular in the
17tb and l8thcenturicsforcompendiuosof i.door
ganes and amusements The besr known eqnivalent
in English is lro!.,et Gar.s 'rhe .ompile$
oftcn borrowed extensivcly irom lhe worts ol
ErLrDoR or Gnlco. such general books mly havc
historical lalue, sometines becausc lhcy are the
l8r stronghold oI obsolele rulcs.
ACCELERATED DRAGON, as7 in thc cru^N
DFrNc.. also known as the Simagin Vanalion.
'l'he name m.y be considcred a nnnomer: the
dra8on comes sooner rather lhan lasler,
ACCUMULATION OF ADVANTAGES, the gain
olsmall adlantagesonehyone\!ith theobject thal