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

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More than 200 games aie given,
including the only desciption in modern
tines of the strategy of shahanj, the main
precursor of ches. Ttrere are 650 entries
describing named operings and their
variations (more than in any comparable
book): these entries cros-refer to an
appendix which tabulates these openinss
by rnoves an entnely new way of
presenting such infomarion-so that the
reader may identi{y a particular opening by
its name if the rnoves are not known and
vice vena. A second appendix provides a
glosary of ches terms in French, cermaD,
Italian, Magyar, Russian. and Spanish. The
rest of nearly 2,000 entries cover laws,
strategy, playing and problem terms, and
related topics such as automatons,
computers, and the represeDtation of tLis
most romantic of games in paintiDg,
literature, dre theatre, and filns.
David Hooper has represented Great
Britain ih overthe-board play and is a
fomer Brirish Correspondence Ches
Champion. His books inclde A ConTlere
DeJenre to 1 P - K4 \1967), A Po&t Ctide
to Che* Endganes 11970), and, witl Dale
Brandreth, fl. Unl