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The King's Gambit

GAME I.

This beautiful and brilliant debut, which, as Mr. Staunton observes, gives birth to the most intricate and beautiful combinations the chess-men are susceptible of, has been a universal favourite with every class of players from the earliest stages of European Chess up to the present day. In order to facilitate the analysis of this opening as far as our narrow limits will permit, we shall divide it into its three principal heads; viz., The King's Knight's gambit, The Allgaier Gambit, and the King's Bishop's Gambit, and afterwards devote a few words to the Gambit Declined.

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