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. lxiv.

Play the 62. to this mark vvv

BLack queen to her kings second house White queen checks at the contrary kings rooks fourth house Black king to his queens house White knight checks at the contrary kings bishops second house Black king to his house VVhite knight takes the kings rook and checks with the queen Black king to his queens house White knight checks Black king to his house White knight to the contrary kings rooks third house, and checks with the queen Black king to his queens house

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White knight takes the kings knight Black queen takes the kings pawn & checks White king to his bishops house Black queen takes the queens bishops pawn White queen checks at the contrary kings knights fourth house Black king to his house White knights checks Black King to his bishops second house White queens Knight to her bishops 3d. house Black queen checks White King to his Black pawn to the contrary Kings bishops third house VVhite pawn takes the pawn Black queen takes the pawn White rook to his Kings bishops house, &c.
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