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CHAPTER XI
END GAMES
The student cannot give too much time to the study of End Games, for it is here that he can put to the test the information that he has acquired in studying the elementary principles of play. The End Game, he will remember, is the third division of a game of Chess when there are so few Pieces and Pawns upon the board that theoretical analysis of the moves has again become possible. All games, however, do not reach this stage, as it frequently happens that checkmate is given by a strong combination of forces after the opening moves, when the Pieces and Pawns are so far developed that the analysis of the moves which characterized the opening are no longer possible; but the student need not devote his time to this
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