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 June 17, 2024.

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Gambet IV.

Play the second to this marke. Wl

WHite queen pawn two houses Black kings bishop checks White queens bishop pawn one house covers Black bishop to his queens rooks fourth house White Kings rooks pawn two houses Wl Black Kings bishops pawn one house White Kings rooks pawn, takes the contrary pawn Black pawn takes the contrary pawn White Kings Knight pawn one house Black Kings Knight pawn one house White Kings Knight to the contrary Kings fourth house Black pawn one house, to the contrary Kings bishops third house White queen to her Kings third house Black Kings Knight to his bishops third house White Kings Knight to the contrary Kings Knights third house Black queen to her Kings Knights second house White Knight takes the contrary Rook Black queen takes the contrary Knight White Kings pawn one house

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Black Kings Knight to his house White queen to the contrary Kings Knights fourth house Black Kings Knight to the Kings second house White queen checks at the contrary rooks fourth house Black King to the queens house White queen takes the contrary Kings Rooks pawn Black queen takes the contrary queen White rook takes the contrary queen Black queens pawn one house White Kings pawn one house Black queens bishops pawn one house White queens bishop to the contrary Kings Knights fourth house Black queens pawn one house White bishop takes the contrary Knight, and checks Black King to his house White Kings Bishop to the quens third house Black bishops takes the contrary pawn White Kings bishop checks at the contrary Kings Knights third house Black King to the queens second house White queens bishop to the queens Knights fourth house, and checks with the Kings Rook Black King to his queens bishops house White bishop takes the contrary bishop &c.
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