The book of chess: containing the rudiments of the game, and elementary analyses of the most popular openings (1882)
Agnel, H. R. (Hyacinth R.), 1799-1871, Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 454
en, and more especially for the unmarried, it is allowable to have re-course to certain incantations, in order to dive into futurity. Customlikewise sanctions, on these occasions, disguises of every kind, and themerry-makings incident to them. Mask^ are seen traversing the streetsin every… … WHITE. White to play and mate in six moves. *■ Over this problem, he continued, I had been poring nearly anhour, and after exhausting, as I thought, every possible combination—There must be something wrong about the position, I muttered ; asit stands here, my friend Stamma, no chor could solve it.…
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