About Phillipe Ambroise Durand
Lived 1799 – 1880 (aged 80–81). Phillipe Ambroise Durand was a French writer.
Philippe Ambroise Durand (1799 – 11 February 1880) was a French abbé and chess writer.
Born in Fresné-la-Mère, Calvados, 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. He is also said to have coined the chess term trébuchet. Durand died in Lisieux in 1880.
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Phillipe Ambroise Durand was born in 1799.
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Phillipe Ambroise Durand died on 11 February 1880.
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