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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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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Gambett. lvij.

Play the 55. to this marke. vvv

BLack King to his second house White queen to her Kings second house Black queens Bishops to the Kings third h. White Kings bishop takes the queens bishop Black King takes the Kings bishop White queen checks at her bishops fourth h. Black King to his second house White queen checks at her Knights fourth house

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Black King takes the pawn White queen takes the queens Knights pawn and checks Black queens Knight covers at the queens se∣cond house White queen takes the queens rook, &c.
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