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Blue Book of Chess, The
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Title: The Blue Book of Chess Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings
Author: Howard Staunton and "Modern Authorities"
Release Date: July 28, 2005 [EBook #16377]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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------------------------------------------------------------ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE | | | | 1. At the end of this text, an addition has been made | | of the translation of the eighty-five "Illustrative | | Games" into Portable Game Notation. While every effort | | has been made to reproduce the text of "The Blue Book | | of Chess" exactly as published, the exception has been | | the inclusion of identification "tags" of the form | | "{PGN xx}", where "xx" is a two digit number. This has | | been done to facilitate the reader in locating the PGN | | for each game by performing a search on the | | identifying tag. | | | | | | 2. Due to the limitations of ascii art, the Knight has | | been abbreviated as "N" on the chessboard, while it | | appears as "Kt." in the text. The ascii convention of | | the Black pieces being marked with an asterisk has |