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Game V.--Ruy Lopez Knight's Game

We will now proceed to examine this, perhaps, the strongest and most embarrassing attack the board affords. It is through fear of this variation, that many of our best players have abandoned the usual defence of 2. Q's Kt. to B's 3d, and turned to the King's Knight's defence, or the old move of P. to Q's 3d.

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