Stamma on the game of chess; containing numerous openings of games, and one hundred critical situations, illustrated on colored diagrams (1818)
Stamma, Philip · London, W.H. Reid · leaf 14
^ EXPLANATION OP THE FIGURES USED IN THE DIAGRAMS. … The Red pieces are supposed to have been placed at the beginnmg of the game at the bottom, and the Black at the top of the diagram. The Red has invariably the first move.
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