The Card Players

Paul Cézanne; 2 ft. 1 3/4 in.x 2 ft. 8 1/4 in.; oil on canvas

Hoyle's improved edition of the rules for playing fashionable games, containing copious directions for whist, quadrille, piquet, draughts, hazard, chess, together with an analysis of the game of chess.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hoyle's games improved : containing practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ...

Mode of access: Internet.

An easy introduction to the game of chess; containing one hundred examples of games, and a great variety of critical situations and conclusions, including the whole of Philidor's analysis, with selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c, to which are added, Caissa, a poem,

Based on Pratt's Studies of chess.

Practical chess exercises, intended as a sequel to the practical chess grammar; containing various openings, games, and situations ... for the use of those who have already a knowledge of the game /

Mode of access: Internet.

A treatise on the game of chess. Containing games of odds, various openings of even games, different methods of winning and drawing the game. Also, numerous critical situations on diagrams. To which are added, the art of playing without seeing the board, and an account of the most celebrated chess players of his time. First published in 1617, by D. Pietro Carrera. Tr. from the Italian, with additional notes and remarks by W. Lewis.

Mode of access: Internet.

A treatise on the game of chess; containing the games on odds, from the "Traité des amateurs"; the games of the celebrated anonymous Modenese; a variety of games actually played; and a catalogue of writers on chess.

Mode of access: Internet.

A new treatise on chess, containing the rudiments of the game explained on scientific principles, with the best methods of playing the most brilliant openings and difficult ends of games, including numerous original positions, and a selection of fifty new chess problems.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hoyle's games improved : consisting of practical treatsies on whist, quadrille, piquet ... with an essay on game cocks and the rules &c. at horse races wherin are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms /

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Hoyle's games improved : containing practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ...

Mode of access: Internet.

A second series of lessons on the game of chess, containing several new methods of attack and defence for the use of the higher class of players; to which is added, Fifty games at chess actually played, many of which occurred between the author and some of the best players in France and Germany;

Mode of access: Internet.

Festivals, games & amusements, ancient & modern;

Mode of access: Internet.

The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time /

"J. Haddon, printer, Castle Street, Finsbury, London.": p. 420.

Chess problems, a collection of original positions, forming one hundred ends of games won or drawn; to which is added a selection of games, including those played between the Leeds and Liverpool clubs, with remarks.

Mode of access: Internet.

A treatise on the game of chess; containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games, with several new modes of attack and defence; to which are added, twenty-five new chess problems on diagrams.

Mode of access: Internet.