Excerpt from Chess Praxis: A Supplement to the Chess Player's Handbook, Containing All the Most Important Modern Improvements in the Openings, Illustrated by Actual Games, A Revised Code on Chess Laws, And a Collection of Mr. Morphy's Matches, &C., , In England and France

Mon]: than twelve years have elapsed since the publication of my Chess Player's Handbook. In the interval, through the medium of periodicals and Associations, a. Knowledge of Chess has been so widely diffused, that the I game now occupies perhaps a more prominent position among sedentary recreations than at any former period.

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