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Excerpt from Elements of the Game of Chess, or a New Method of Instruction in That Celebrated Game, Founded on Scientific Principles: Containing Numerous General Rules, Remarks and Examples, by Means of Which, Considerable Skill in the Game May Be Acquired, in a Comparatively Short Time That such a work would be eminently useful, cannot for a moment be doubted, when it is considered how much time is saved in acquiring knowledge by proper instruction, and that none are so likely to become first rate players, as those who learn the game on scientific principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.