The Best book on Chess By the master Robert Frederick Green! Highly Recommended! With Illustrations! Openings, closes, strategy, and so much more! Learn the tricks of the best in the game!

The game of Chess is played by two persons or parties; each having at command Sixteen figures or men, which are moved upon a chequered board.

The chess-board is a square, divided by intersecting lines into sixty-four equal smaller squares. These smaller squares are coloured (to facilitate calculation) of a dark and light colour alternately.1 For play it is a rule to place the board so that each player has a white square at his right hand corner.

There are thirty-two chessmen, Sixteen belonging to each player. The men of one side are distinguished from those of the other by a different colour one set being of a light colour and called white, and the other being of a dark colour and called black.

The following diagram represents a chess-board with the men arranged in proper order for play.

Publisher G. Bell

Collection americana

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