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~Spayth's American Draught Player; or the Theory and Practice of the

Scientific Game of Checkers.~ Simplified and Illustrated with

Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions.

By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition with over three hundred Corrections

and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full

instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how

formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained

and illustrated with Diagrams--Playing Tables for Draught Clubs--New

Systems of Numbering the Board--Prefixing signs to the Variations--

List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged.

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