Philador, François André, a celebrated composer and chess-player, born at Dreux; wrote a number of operas; in regard to chess his great maxim was “Pawns are the soul of chess”; fled at the time of the Revolution to London, where he died (1726‒1795).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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