Bishop's Gambit

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batgirl

from "Brevity and Brilliancy in Chess: A Collection of Games at this Royal Pastime"
by Miron James Hazeltine.  Notes by Hazeltine.

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Eseles

Seeing the lowly pawns checkmating His Majesty brings always some special kind of joy

Strangemover

These 19th century dukes and counts were on the receiving end of some brutal losses lol.

Eseles

Can we say that the Duke and the Count were "titled players"? xD

batgirl

I ran a deep analysis here:

 

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LouStule
batgirl wrote:

from "Brevity and Brilliancy in Chess: A Collection of Games at this Royal Pastime"
by Miron James Hazeltine.  Notes by Hazeltine.









I guess the old "Move pieces not pawns" maxim hadn't been invented yet?