Excerpt from The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of That Celebrated Assemblage Held in New York in the Year 1857; Together With Sketches of the History of Chess in the Old and New Worlds
A few articles in the book were written by me for the Chess Monthly, in which periodical they have previously appeared.
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