The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 690
, the great authority on draughts, gives a hun-2^S dred and fifty critical positions to be won or drawn byscientific play. Many of these are simple enough tomasters of the game, though very puzzling to tyros; for indraught, as in chess problems, all depends on the initial move.It is not to Sturges… … BLACK. 7. 25 to 30 K 8. 30 to 25 9. 25 to 1810. 29 to 25 WHITE.WHITE TO PLAT AND WIN. Thus— WHITE. BLACK. WHITE. 1. 23 to 27 1. 5 to 9 7. 10 to 15 2. 12 to 8 2. 9 to 13 8. 15 to 18 3. 8 to 3 K 3. 13 to 17 9. 18 to 23 4. 3 to 7 4. 17 to 21 10. 23 to 14 5. 7 to 10 5. 25 to 29 K 11. 14 to 18 6. 18 to…
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