Excerpt from Mr. Hoyle's Game of Chess: Including His Chess Lectures, With Selections From Other Amateurs
You have some new cases in this treatise abso lutely necessary to understand, in order to play the game to perfection. It frequently happens, that each player has two or three pawns, without a piece on the board at the latter end of a game: in this case, you have instructions how to reckon the moves, in the shortest manner, who has gained tb move, let the moves be ever so many in number. We rules laid down for counting them are as easy, as reckon ing any number with counters, which has never been attempted by any author before.
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Excerpt from Mr. Hoyle's Game of Chess: Including His Chess Lectures, With Selections From Other Amateurs
You have some new cases in this treatise abso lutely necessary to understand, in order to play the game to perfection. It frequently happens, that each player has two or three pawns, without a piece on the board at the latter end of a game: in this case, you have instructions how to reckon the moves, in the shortest manner, who has gained tb move, let the moves be ever so many in number. We rules laid down for counting them are as easy, as reckon ing any number with counters, which has never been attempted by any author before.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Mr. Hoyle's Game of Chess: Including His Chess Lectures, With Selections From Other Amateurs
Few people in England, till within these thirty years, understood playing the pawns to perfection: the lovers of Chess are principally indebted to Sir Abraham Janssen, Mr. Montgomery, and Mr. Bofan, for this knowledge; and it is on the playing the pawns well, in a great measure, the success of the game depends.
You have some new cases in this treatise absolutely necessary to understand, in order to play the game to perfection. It frequently happens, that each player has two or three pawns, without a piece on the board at the latter end of a game: in this case, you have instructions how to reckon the moves, in the shortest manner, who has gained the move, let the moves be ever so many in number. The rules laid down for counting them are as easy, as reckoning any number with counters, which has never been attempted by any author before.
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