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

TWO.PAWNS ATTACK 365
voyag€s, Hording his ob6enations. Itr 1787 he nor neesarily advdlageous. Many other factors,
published ano.ynously Cliess, which he intlodued
lhus: The lollowing T.ifle is o(ered to
not le6t the nature of rhe PA
Chess-playe6, 6 a Conpilation ol all the Arccdoles
a.d Quolations tbat @uld be found elative the two bishops and sErNrz piorcered the
L. p uLsEN nrsr drew atleorion to the power oi
lo the gane of chess: with ar ac@unl of all the appropriate iehniqu€ by neans oI which fte
Ches-book which @uld be pEued.' He s6 mobilily of the oppositrS tniSht or tnighh @dd be
attacked by some revi.wers lor lack of onSiMlity. restnded. Fron the many games he woo in this
A seco.d volune came out in 1789.
way mateB ale lea.aed hov the player vith the
Many yea6 later, under his own name. Twis tnight or knights shonld onduct his play. Today a
pubrished a tso volme work , Mbceaa4iet OtA5'). m6ter misht volurarity exchange his bishop fo. a
ihe second volume ofwhich contained a snbslanlial knight in lhe opening phase knowing lhal he can
supplement to his earlier work .s well as 100 pages dange malt.rs in such a vay thst hG opponent s
of stories about dranghB and many topics such 6 two bishops {ill trot gain extensive s@pe. For
Kolrplay (gol0, not tnown in any other coDntry exanples which demonst at€ the bishoF' power in
llhan lhe Neth€rla.dsl, a yery pleasatrr salutary the endgame or the niddle-8de see Flosr,
exercjse, and not atredded with the fatigue of
and rArNcs. In th.
gane u.der HaBMr white gets ao opon positiotr
Twiss nissed little oI importane i. chess, bur never get his bishops actively placed, and in the
.lthough LU.ENA ras unkmm to him. He mpied games won by aNDERssEN, NcE6, and rnc the
his ext.acts.a.etully in rype style as sel as spelling power of th. bishops is *nously resrricred by the
d made lireral lranslations of the foreign exra.h.
His own recollections are not always
p.ese.ce oI a blocked entre Pasn,
reliable. I . . . s6 with [pEtLrDoR] in Pans in 1783, TWO I(NIGIITS DEFENCE,497, a good alternalive
for Blacl should he not wish to delend the
where I sav his wife. He had at that time 19
children lieing, to none of whom he had raught
After 4 Ng5 he nay need to
che$. Twi$t brother l€ll in lovo with Mrs Siddoc ecrince a pam,lor which he gers a mnpe.sati.s
and maried he. sister Frarces Kenbl€. aunt of the attack. This old opening, tound in crduno (1597)
actress Fanny Kenble-
and k.own to poLERro, is sometioes caled the
Prussian Deletre. (See corN.,DN.E.)
TWO BISEOPS. To say that a player has the two
bishops usually implies that his opponent h6 TWO XNIGETS VAIIATION, 298, line in the
bishop ard knight or two knights instead. Advantage
might subsist in lhe posession of the two
eeuNN DETENG popular ia the 1950s.
bishops, especidy if they @n both oporale on
open diagonals and iI the opposing k"ight or TWO-MOVER, a DqECI-utE ProrGM, WIneis lo
tnights cd.ot 6trd an anchorage in the GNfuL play iEr and to sive nare on hi3 se@nd move. a
aNE. A player vho 'gains' lhe two bishops in the snpul^iroN indicated by the symbol l2(+2).
opening mighl @nsider this a potential advantage:
he nay hope roopendiagonalslor lhe bishoFlaler TWO PAWNS ATTAC(, 667, ihe 6@ v^rh-
'n the eam€. How€ver, to have the two bshoBs ION Of the ALEruINE DETN'E,
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