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Hoyle's games : illustrated edition ; embracing all the most modern modes of play, and the rules practised at the present time, in billiards, whist, draughts, cribbage, backgammon, and all other fashionable games ; together with sixteen games adapted to the new Yankee-notion cards ; also the whole of Frère's chess hand-book. Containing, besides elementary instruction and the laws of chess, about fifty select games by the first players ; endings of games, and the defeat of the Muzio gambit ; also, thirty-six of the choicest chess problems, and a description of, and rules for four-handed chess