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The French Defence is a chess ... or the Closed Variation of the Sicilian Defence. ... is widely used in chess literature. Codes C00 to C19 are the French Defence ...
Spanish descriptive notation uses a similar system, with a few differences: The initials to identify the pieces are taken from the equivalent Spanish words: R = rey (king), D = dama (queen, lit. ' lady '), T = torre (rook), C = caballo (knight), A = alfil (bishop, lit. ' war elephant ') and P = peón (pawn). The files are named after the ...
New Castle Gambit of the French Defence, Tarrasch Variation – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 e5; New York Variation of the Benoni Defense – 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.h3; Nordic Gambit – 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 (alternative name for the Danish Gambit) Nordwalde Variation of the King's Gambit Declined - 1.e4 e5 ...
Winawer Variation of the French Defence – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 – named after Simon Winawer [161] Wolf Gambit of the French Defence – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4 5.Nge2 [citation needed] Worrall Attack of the Ruy Lopez – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Qe2 – named after Thomas Herbert Worrall [162]
George Silver, Paradoxes of Defense (1599) Joseph Swetnam, Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence (1612) [14] Captain John Godfrey, A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence, Connecting the Small and Back-Sword (1747) John Musgrave Waite, Lessons in sabre, singlestick, sabre & bayonet, and sword feats (1880)
Cover of the 1549 edition. La Défense et illustration de la langue française (French pronunciation: [la defɑ̃s e ilystʁasjɔ̃ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz], The defense and illustration of the French language) is a literary theory text written during the Renaissance in 1549 by the French poet Joachim du Bellay.
The Siege of Cádiz was a siege of the large Spanish naval base of Cádiz [5] by a French army from 5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812 [6] during the Peninsular War.Following the occupation of Seville, Cádiz became the Spanish seat of power, [7] and was targeted by 70,000 French troops under the command of the Marshals Claude Victor and Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult for one of the most important ...
The 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...