Chess, Checkers, Dominoes and Backgammon
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Chess, Checkers, Dominoes and Backgammon - Anon
The Rules of Chess
Two persons may play at chess. The board is like the ordinary checker board consisting of sixty-four squares of contrasting colors.
The board is so placed that each player has a white corner square at the right-hand side. The men or pieces are sixteen in number for each player, all of those on one side are of the same color and in contrast to those on the opposing side.
The names of the men are as follows:
The term piece is more particularly applied to those men in the first row to distinguish them from the Pawns in the second row.
A strong or experienced player sometimes gives Odds
to a weaker player by removing one of his men at the beginning of the game.
This concession is made according to the relative difference in skill between the players and the piece removed may accordingly be a Knight, Castle, or Pawn. The person giving Odds
has the first move. When no Odds
are given the first move is decided by lot. If a series of games is being played the first move alternates. The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent, that is, place his King in such a position that he cannot help himself and would be subject to capture, but the King is never taken. When a checkmate is secured the game is ended. The Pawn’s first move may be one or two moves straight forward, his subsequent moves are but one square at a time, and never backward. The Pawn cannot move diagonally except to