CHESS 



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CHESS 



which is divided into sixty-four squares, ar- 

 ranged in eight rows of eight squares each, 

 and colored alternately white and black. The 

 same board is used in the game of checkers. 

 Each player has a set of sixteen men; one set 

 is colored white and the other black. Eight 

 of each set are of the lowest grade and are 

 named pawns; the other eight are t>f various 

 grades and are named pieces. The pieces on 

 each side consist of a king, queen, two bish- 

 ops, two knights and two rooks, or castles. 

 The board must be placed so that each player 

 shall have a white square at his right hand. 



The Position of the Pieces. At the begin- 

 ning of the game all the men are arranged 

 upon the two rows of squares next to the play- 

 ers, the pieces on the first, or nearest, row, and 

 the pawns on the row immediately in front 

 of the pieces. The king and queen occupy 

 the' two central squares facing the correspond- 

 ing pieces on the opposite side. The rule to 

 be remembered is that the queen always oc- 

 cupies her own color, which means that the 

 white queen is set on the light square and the 

 black queen on the black square. The two 

 bishops occupy the squares next to the king 

 and queen; the two knights, the squares next 

 BLACK 



R Kt . B Q K B Kt R 



Q K B Kt K 

 WHITE 



CHESSBOARD AND MEN 

 The position of the pieces at the beginning of 

 the game. 



the bishops; the castles occupy the last, or 

 corner, squares. The illustration shows how 

 the men are arranged when the game starts. 

 The men standing on the king's or queen's 



side of the board are named respectively king's 

 and queen's men. Thus, king's bishop or 

 knight is the bishop or knight on the side of 

 the king. The pawns are named from the 

 BLACK 



WHITE 



NAMES OF THE SQUARES 



pieces in front of which they stand, such as 

 king's pawn, queen's castle's pawn, and so on. 

 The names of the men are abbreviated, as 

 follows: King, K; King's Bishop, KB; King's 

 Knight, KKt; King's Castle or Rook, KC or 

 KR; Queen, Q; Queen's Bishop, QB; Queen's 

 Knight, QKt; Queen's Castle, QC or QR; 

 Pawns, P. 



The Moves of the Pieces. In chess a man 

 captures by occupying the position held by 

 the captured man, who is then removed from 

 the board. In this the game differs from 

 checkers, where the piece played is set one 

 square beyond the man "jumped." The pawn 

 moves straight forward one square at a time, 

 with two exceptions: when it is moved first, 

 in which case it may be advanced either one 

 or two squares, at the discretion of the player; 

 and when it captures a man, at which time it 

 always moves diagonally one square, to the 

 position of the captured man. A pawn never 

 moves backward. A piece or another pawn 

 directly in front of it stops ita progress. When 

 a pawn reaches the eighth row, or the extreme 

 limit of the board, it may be exchanged for 

 any piece previously lost which the player 

 chooses. As a rule the queen, the most val- 

 uable piece, is chosen, if during the game that 

 piece has been lost. This is called queening 

 a pawn. 



The rook, or castle, moves for any distance 



