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FOREWORD "There is a weird power in a spoken word Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

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The Knight's Gambit is a method that plays on words and by which miracles are wroughtl We use words to enchant the audience and to create a non-existing person that assists the Mentalist to present his marvels. Yet, in the minds of the audience this person is real and alive and takes part in the show on stagel This is mental magic in its purest form. We actually create illusions by the spoken word. It is not enough that we know how to use gimmicked books and envelopes. Real mind magic goes a bit farther and here in this treatise is an awakening effort to bring this method to the fore as there is much room for thought a~d farther research. ns a bonus I offer you Fantini's Fabulous Billet work. No less in value and well worth buying the book, Fantini (Gene Grant) illustrates in line drawings what would surely take many words to do otherwise. Fantini worked independently and along the same line of thought, keeping in the present trend of the "peek" technique that was first introduced in the original "I\cidus" rnns. and which later was expanded by Millard Longman and myself in "I\cidus Plus" and in "The Donovon Papers." Fantini is a world famous author and working Mentalist. His center tear technique may at first appear similar to other methods presently on the market but on careful study the student can Bee that his method is superior. It keeps the number of moves to a minimum. Phantini uses it in his shows and appears here by his permission from a letter dated 5/27/82.

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2 MANN EX.CLUSIVE

The Dy-No-Mite Prediction by Donn Davison is the ultimate in this line of thought. Both of the above references are must reading for the serious student in Mentalism. Mis-calling or mis-naming a card or person or anything else is an old principle in magic but one seldom used except by a small group of initiates. It has much room for further developement. METHOD, The audience has a free choice of anyone of the chess pieces, but although it may appear that they have a choice of one of )2 pieces, actually they only have a choice of one in 12 pieces since many of the pieces have the same rank, for example, there are four knights, two white and two black etc. and of course there are eight pawn in the white camp and eight in the black. So actually it boils down to choosing one ' of the followingl King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Castle, Pawn; for a total of six pieces from each color.

THE CHESS BOOK is ungimmicked as far as the printing 2J6 POU~T COUNT CHESS goes. Any chess book can be Matulal, II will be noted, Is absolutely even. Each king Is rela. used. If you examine almost tively 1e"CW'e. White and BI2c:1c pawn structures .ppur to be any text book on chess you will IO\JnG, WhIte's control of the ~II-ofH'l' queen b:"hop file ICe1ru notice that almost every page to be rounterb.tanee