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 16, 2024.

Pages

Page 45

Gambett. XVIII.

Play the 15th. to this mark Wl

BLack rook takes the Kings knight White bishop takes the rook and checks Black King to his rooks house White queens bishop takes the kings rookes pawn Black queens bishop to the contrary kings knights fourth house White bishop takes the kings knights pawn and checks Black king takes the queens bishop VVhite queen checks at the contrary Kings Knights third house Black King to his bishops house White Kings bishop to his queens Knights third house Black queen to the Kings house VVhite queen checks at the contrary Kings Knights house Black Kings to his second house VVhite queen takes the bishop. Black King to the queenes house White rook to the Kings house Black queenes rooks pawn one house VVhite queen takes the pawn, &c.
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