Download Book: Chess and chess-players

Publication date 1850
Publisher London, C. J. Skeet
Book from the collections of New York Public Library
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These sketches were first published, years since, in various magazines and journals and are now presented in a volume, as a partial retrospect of the dark days that are gone; when the march of Chess was in its infancy.