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    's-Gravenhage 1843 & Leyden 1850) Elias Stein: Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des reflexions militaires relatives a ce jeu. La Haye, aux depens de l'auteur...
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    Jean Victor Constant de Rebecque (category 1850 deaths)
    Rebecque or Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque (22 September 1773 – 12 June 1850) was a Swiss mercenary and member of the house of Constant de Rebecque who...
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    Bouchard, Gérard (2004). La pensée impuissante : échecs et mythes nationaux canadiens-français, 1850–1960, Montréal: Boréal, 319 p. (ISBN 2-7646-0345-2)...
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    at college won first prize in a radio competition on general knowledge, Echec et Mat, for which the prize was a trip around the world offered by Swissair...
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