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Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess, and an Engraved Plate for the Instruction of Beginners.

CAREFULLY REVISED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONS.

NEW-YORK

PUBLISHED BY W. C. BORRADAILE
146 BROADWAY.

1830.

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L.S.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William C. Borradaile, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following-to wit:

"Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for playing Fashionable Games: containing Copious Directions for Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-un, Lansquenet, Pharo, Rouge et Noir, Cribbage, Matrimony, Cassino, Reversis, Put, Connexions, All Fours, Speculation, Lottery, Pope Joan, Commerce, Pam Loo, Brag, Domino, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Hazard, Chess, Goff, or Golf, Cricket, Billiards, Tennis, Horse-racing, and Cocking. Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess, and an engraved Plate for the Instruction of Beginners. Carefully revised from the last London Edition, with several Additions."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

FREDERICK J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York,

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BACK GAMMON, Described
Calculations of Chances

How to carry your men home

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Rules for playing the 36 chances
Cautions, observations, and hints
Directions for bearing the men

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The odds of saving or winning the gammon 170

Laws of the game

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DRAUGHTS, Description of

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Twenty games played

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Critical situations to draw games

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Critical situations to win games

HAZARD, described

Table of the odds

Additional Calculations

CHESS, Description of the game
Laws of the game

Hoyle's general rules for chess

Select games at chess

A trick in chess

An anecdote

GOFF, or GOLF, The game described
CRICKET, Laws of the game

BILLIARDS, General Remarks

General rules for the game

The English, French, and other games

TENNIS
HORSE-RACING

Rules of the Jockey Club

Table of Weights

COCKING, Directions, &c.

Rules and Orders

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