Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 19:56:10 10/07/05
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On October 06, 2005 at 21:39:59, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Here it is, at the side of the keyboard, near my left hand, a book by Philidor >called "Análisis del Juego de Ajedrez" (Analysis of Chess Game) published by a >prestigious french editorial house in Paris, 1908. It was translated to spanish >and have annotations and drawings by an old chilean chess player, Juan Dauvin. >It is the only spanish edition ever made of this book, the one where Philidor >taught the use of pawns. Editorial Sopena Argentina had another edition of Philidor in Spanish. The Sopena book was reprinted several times in the fifties or sixties. I donated my copy to a public library some thirty years ago. But the French edition in Spanish I liked most. I never owned one of these, but read it from a library when I was a teen. The late Gregorio Lastra -editor the magazine Mundo del Ajedrez- collected these little books made in France. Telmo >Diagrams are weird, with black pieces looking in inverse positions, head to the >bottom. The book perspires history, old histories, the flavor of decades and >decay. >In fact, such an old book I am thinking in throwing it to trash bin. > >Savonarola Regards >Fernando
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