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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Subject terms
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 13, 2024.

Pages

Gambett. LVj.

Play the last to this mark vv

WHite Kings rooks pawn two houses Black Kings Knights pawn one house White Kings Knight to the contrary Kings Knights fourth house Black Kings Knight to his rooks third house White queens pawn two houses Black Kings bishops pawn one house

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White queenes bishop takes the pawne at the Kings bishops fourth house Black Kings bishops pawn takes the Kings Knight White queens bishop takes the pawn Black Kings bishop to his third house White queens bishop takes the Kings Knight Black queens bishop takes the Kings rooks pawn and checks VVhite King to his second house Black queen to her Kings bishops third house White queens bishop to the Kings third house Black queens Knight to her bishops third house White queens Knight to her bishops third house Black Kings bishop to the contrary King Knights third house White queens Knight to the contrary queenes fourth house Black queen to the Kings Knights third house White Kings pawn one house Black King to his queens house White Kings bishop to his queens third house Black queen to the Kings bishops second h. White queenes bishop checks at the contrary Kings Knights fourth house Black King to his house VVhite Knights takes the queens bishops pawne and checks Black King to his bishops house

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White Kings rook to the Kings bishops house Black queens Knight takes the queens pawn and checks White King to his third house Black Knight to the contrary Kings bishops third house White pawn takes the Knight Black queen to the Kings Knights house VVhite pawn takes the pawn and checks Black King to his Knights second house White queens bishop checks at the contrary King bishops third house Black King to his rooks third house White Rook gives Mate.
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