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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many other wise excellent manuals for the learner.

The chief aim of the Editor for these pages have been to avoid this fault, by simplifying the openings, and by giving to the student chiefly such moves are recgonized to be the best, both in attack and defence.