STRATAGEMS OF CHESS,

OR A COLLECTION OF

Crítical and remarkable Situations,

SELECTED FROM

THE WORKS OF EMINENT MASTERS,

ILLUSTRATED ON PLATES,

DESCRIBING

THE INGENIOUS MOVES BY WHICH THE GAME IS EITHER
WON, DRAWN, OR STALE-MATE OBTAINED.

PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCE'S STREET, HANOVER

SQUARE; W. H. REID, PANTON STREET, HAYMARKET; AND
BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1817.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

BEQUEST OF

SILAS W. HOWLAND
NOVEMBER 8, 1938

Imperfect: lacks half- title.

PREFACE.

THE learned who have extended their researches to the origin of Chess, have discovered through the obscurity of ancient history, traces of it at the most remote periods. Among the moderns, this game has always been universally cultivated, and treatises written on it in almost every language. Each of these works has its peculiar merits: that of the Calabrois teaches us the art of laying snares to

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