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" ... more) when it is your own turn. VII. If, whilst you are playing, your adversary will talk about the state of the game, it is very provoking, but you cannot help it, and the pieces will give you ample revenge, if you can avail yourself of their power.... "
A Popular Introduction to the Study and Practice of Chess: Forming a ... - Page 28
by Samuel S. Boden - 1851 - 196 pages
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Maxims and Hints for an Angler ; and Miseries of Fishing : Illustrated by ...

Richard Penn - Chess - 1833 - 94 pages
...revenge, if you can avail yourself of their power. VIII. If the by-standers talk, it is still more annoying; they always claim the merit of having foreseen every good move which is made, and they sometimes express great surprise at your not making a particular move ; which,...
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Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing

Richard Penn - Chess - 1833 - 104 pages
...revenge, if you can avail yourself of their power. VIII. If the by-standers talk, it is still more annoying ; they always claim the merit of having foreseen every good move which is made, and they sometimes express great surprise at your not making a particular move ; which,...
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Chess Player's Chronicle, Volume 2

Chess - 1841 - 446 pages
...revenge, if you can avail yourself of their power. VIII. If the by-standers talk, it is still more annoying : they always claim the merit of having foreseen every good move which is made, and they sometimes express great surprise at your not making a particular move; which,...
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A Popular Introduction to the Study and Practice of Chess: Forming a ...

Samuel S. Boden - Chess - 1851 - 208 pages
...adversary should console himself by pointing ou a shorter and more masterly mode by which you might have won. Listen patiently, he cannot prove that your way...to your speedily losing the game — before which tune they would have walked away to another table. V. " Never, if you can help it, lose a game to a...
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Maxims and Hints for an Angler: Embellished with Humorous Engravings ...

Richard Penn - 1863 - 94 pages
...revenge, if you can avail yourself of their power. VIII. If the by-standers talk, it is still more annoying ; they always claim the merit of having foreseen every good move which is made, and they sometimes express great surprise at your not making a particular move ; which,...
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