Philippe Ambroise Durand

Philippe Ambroise Durand (1799 – 11 February 1880)[1] was a French abbé and chess writer.[2]

Durand and Jean-Louis Preti

Born in Fresné-la-Mère, Calvados,[1] he was professor of rhetoric at Falaise and later taught philosophy at Lisieux before retiring in 1860. Durand collaborated with Jean-Louis Preti to write three books on chess, including the two-volume Stratégie raisonnée des fins de partie (1871–73). These were the first books devoted to the practical endgame, and included concepts such as conjugate squares and the opposition.[2] He is also said to have coined the chess term trébuchet.[2] Durand died in Lisieux in 1880.[1]

Publications
  • Durand, L'Abbé; Metton, Louis; Preti, Jean (1862), Stratégie raisonnée des ouvertures de jeu d'échecs (in French), Paris
  • Durand, L'Abbé; Preti, Jean (1871–1873), Stratégie raisonnée des fins de partie du jeu d'échecs (in French), Premier Fascicule et Livre II, Paris

See also

References
  1. Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 101, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
  2. Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 117, ISBN 0-19-280049-3

Further reading
  • Les Cahiers de l'Echiquier Français, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1932, p. 417–423
  • La Stratégie, 1880, pp. 52, 65–67
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.