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.

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Page 94

Gambett. LXVj.

WHite Kings pawn two houses Black the same White Kings bishops pawn two houses Black Kings pawn takes the pawn White Kings Knight to his bishops third house Black Kings Knight to his Kings second house White Kings rooks pawn two houses Black Kings rooks pawn two houses White Kings bishop to the queens bishops 4th. house Black Kings Knight to his third house White Kings Knight to the contrary Kings Knights fourth house Black Kings Knight to the fourth house of his King White Kings bishop to the queens Knights third house Black Kings bishops pawn one house White Kings Knight to the Rooks third house vv Black Kings Knights pawn two houses. VVhite Kings rooks pawn takes the pawn Black pawn takes the pawn White queens pawn two houses

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vv Black Kings Knight to his bishops second house White Kings Knights pawn one house Black pawn takes the Kings Knights pawn VVhite Kings bishop takes the Kings Knight and checks Black King takes the Kings bishop White Knight takes the pawn and checks at the contrary Kings Knights fourth house Black King to his Knights second house White queen to her Kings bishops third house Black queen to her Kings bishop third house White queen takes the pawn at the kings knights third house Black queens pawn one house White Kings Knight checks at the contrary Kings third house double check Black King to his bishops second house White rook to the Kings bishops house Black queen takes the rook and checks White King takes the queen Black queens bishop takes the Knight White queens bishop to the contrary Kings Knights fourth house, &c.
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