 Complete the following phrase:  The convention of White having the first move is much more recent than that. François-André Danican Philidor in the original 1749 edition of his famous treatise Analyse du jeu des Échecs cited one game in which Black moved first. Johann Horny, in a book published in Germany in 1824, wrote that Black moves first. Phillip Sergeant wrote in his book A History of British Chess of the great Alexander McDonnell 17981835, remembered today for his series of matches with Labourdonnais: He preferred to have Black, as first player as well as second ... this was a common fad in his day, which persisted with a great number of players, as a study of the Chess Players Chronicle and other magazines shows. In the 