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THE WORKS OF
Bamtano, 9Ru^-Eope^ AND
attno, ON
THE G*AME OF CHESS; TRANSLATED AND ARRANGED
:
WITH
REMARKS, OBSERVATIONS, AND COPIOUS NOTES ON
THE GAMES. CONTAINING, ALSO,
SEVERAL ORIGINAL GAMES AND SITUATIONS, BY THE EDITOR. TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
The Elements of the Art of Playing without seeing the
Board,
Qui joue un coup en vain Perd an grand avantage, Joueur habile et sage
Ne
fait rien saus dessein.
Distraits ne soient tes yeux Ni ta main trop ligdre. Un beau coup s'oiFre l faire, Vois s'il n'est rien de mieux.
M. DE ST. CSSANS.
By
J.
H. Sarratt,
Author of a Treatise on Chess, &c, and Professor of the Game.
JUttDOlti
PRINTED FOR
T.
BOOSEY, No. 4, OLD BROAD STREET, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1813.
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TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE »
The Lord Viscount Pollington, m.p. &c. &c. &c.
THIS TREATISE
IS
INSCRIBED,
AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT,
*Y
HIS
OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,
J. Cucen
Street, Blootnsbury,
April 1813.
H. Sarratt.
preface*
IT may
be proper for the Editor to the reasons which have induced him to
state
publish a translation of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez,
and Salvio*
The acknowledged excellence of these works has certainly operated as the principal inducement. The Editor has frequently and attentively played and examined all the games contained
in those treatises,
and he
is
strongly impressed with the belief that they are calculated to assist in a material degree unpractised players
who
—
are
to faci