Game from Falkener's book

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There is a complete game from old China given in Games Ancient and Oriental and How to Play Them by Edward Falkener (1892, reprinted by Dover).

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Moves 1-10

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Moves 11-20



This turns out to be a game Li Haimen-Qian Gongnan in the Gogod collection; date given there is 1850. The Falkener record is more complete at the end, and gives White +2.5.

The provenance was probably Giles, British consul in China.

Charles Matthews


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