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Men gathered around a table as Philidor plays a game of chess wearing a blindfold. Engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Philidor played exhibition matches on annual visits to London from Paris. They were open to paying spectators. On the left of the print, wearing a turban, is Yusuf Agâh Efendi, the first permanen ambassador of the Sublime Porte to the Court of St James, who arrived in London in December 1793. Parsloe's was in St James's
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