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 17, 2024.

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Page 35

Gambett. XII.

Play the tenth to this mark Wl

BLack King to his bishops house White queenes bishop takes the contrary pawn Black queen to her kings house White queen checks at the Kings bishops third house Black king to his knights second house White kings bishop takes the Kings Knight Black King takes the bishop White queenes pawn one house Black queenes knight to the Kings second house White queenes bishop to the contrar Kings bishops third house Black queene to the Kings bishops second house White queens knight to the queenes second house Black Kings rooks pawn one house White bishop takes the rook Black queen takes the queen White knight takes the queen Black King takes the bishop White Kings rookes pawn one house

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Black queenes bishop to the queens second house White queenes bishops pawn one house Black Kings bishop to the contrary queenes fourth house White Knight takes the contrary Kings bi∣shop Black pawn takes the Kings Knight White kings rook to the queens house Black queens bishops pawn two house White queens bishops pawn two houses Black rook to the Kings bishops house White Kings pawn one house Black pawn takes the pawn White pawn takes the pawn Black rook takes the rooke and checks White rook takes the rook Black King to his Knights house White pawne to the contrary Kings third house Black bishop to his house White queens pawn one house Black Knight to the Queenes Bishops third house White queens pawn one house Black Bishop takes the pawn VVhite pawn takes the queens Bishop Black Queens pawn one house VVhite rook to the Kings house

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Black queens pawne to the contrary queens second house White rook checks at the contrary Kings house Black King to his Knights second house VVhite pawn is made a queen Black Knight takes the Queen VVhite Rooke takes the Knight Black King to his bishops second house White Rooke takes the pawn, &c.
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