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 1, 2024.

Pages

Gambett. lviij.

Play the 52d. to this mark vv

WHite King to his bishops second house Black queen checks at the contrary Kings Knights second house White King to his third house Black Kings Knight to his house White Kings Knight to the Kings bishops 4th. house Black Kings bishop to the Kings rooks third house White Kings bishop to his house Black queen takes the Kings rook White Kings bishop checks at the contrary queens Knights fourth house Black queens bishops pawn covers White Kings bishop takes the pawn and checks Black Knight takes the Kings bishop White rook takes the queen, &c.
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