The royall game of chesse-play sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility : illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts / being the study of Biochimo, the famous Italian.

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Title
The royall game of chesse-play sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility : illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts / being the study of Biochimo, the famous Italian.
Author
Greco, Gioachino.
Publication
London :: Printed for Henry Herringman ...,
1656.
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Chess -- Early works to 1800.
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"The royall game of chesse-play sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility : illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts / being the study of Biochimo, the famous Italian." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41975.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

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Page 116

Gambett. lxxxix.

Play the last to this marks. vvv

WHite Rook to the contrary Kings 4th. h. Black qu. to the cont. kings rooks 4th. h. White rook checks at the contrary Kings rooks fourth house Black queen takes the rook White qu. checks at the contr. Kings bishops h. Black King to his Knight, third house White Kings Bish. checks at the queens third h. Black King to his Knights fourth house White queen gives mate.
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