The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 205
ed to do my best; but each move of mine was answeredwith lightning rapidity, and in a few minutes the game hadtaken the following curious form (Fig. 2). This time, of course,I played with the white men. Now, considering my superiorityin kings, I made sure of winning, but my antagonist… … WHITE.Fig. 2. BLACK TO PLAT AND WIN IN NINE MOVES. could make nothing of them ; but finally, after many hourscogitation, I recollected the solutions to the strange problems—and here they are :— SOLUTION TO THE EIGHT-MOVE POSITION. White. Black. 10 to 6 2 to 918 to 14 9 to 1815 to 22 13 to 1722 to…
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