Hello everyone!As I celebrate my birthday here in Morocco, far from my family and my Eureka chessboard, I was lucky enough to have passed by a magazine stand and saw two familiar non-English word printed as a title for a magazine : Europe Echecs!
I knew it would'nt be in English but still it's about chess. The fact that I've been frustrated for the past five months in searching for a cafe' that is teeming with chess playing crowd nor any bystander seating in one corner and outsmarting each other with the game.
This is June issue of Europe chess which has a front cover that translates to "The International Grandmasters of France, Children of Philidor"
Just in case you missed your History of Chess 101 class, Francois-Andre Philidor was born in France and always considered music as his life and not chess.
I'd like to link you to two sites I read after catching fire looking at the diagrams and photos from the magazine.
A book called The Life of Philidor, Musician and Chessplayer and The chess games of Francois Andre' Philidor.
It is, as I said, in French so I had to content myself in replaying the games from the magazine which was enjoyable anyways!
Philidor Defense?
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