Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/chessfundamentalOOcapa BY JOSE R. CAPABLANCA A PRIMER OF CHESS JOSE R. CAPABLANCA CHESS FUNDAMENTALS BY JOSE CAPABLANCA R. CHESS CHAMPION OF THE WORLD NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COIMPANY LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. All rights reserved. No part of thisbook may bereproducedin anyform,by mimeographoranyothermeans,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.