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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 459

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! The move is mine. The Ethiopian offered the Gambit, as his opponent had previousljJone. His mode of playing it, however, diflfered entirely from anything my grandfather had seen in his books or met with in practice 446 CHESS FOR WINTER EVENINGS. At the thirtieth move his Queen was again forced,… … The stranger having to move, now played Queen to her Bishopstliird square. Here my grandfather rallied a moment. Notwithstanding, thethreatened mate, he imagined he saw a method of retrieving his game,and answered with Bishop to Queens fifth square, pinning adverseQueen. Vain endeavor! No sooner…

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