The Manual of Chess: Containing the Elementary Principles of the Game

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D. Appleton and Company, 1864 - Chess - 107 pages
 

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Page 49 - If a player remain, at the end of the game, with a Rook and Bishop against a Rook ; with both Bishops only ; with Knight and Bishop only, &c., he must checkmate his adversary in fifty moves on each side at most, or the game will be considered as drawn : the fifty moves commence from the time the adversary gives notice that he will count them.
Page 48 - ... and it cannot be ascertained how it occurred, the player whose King is in check must retract his last move and free his King from the check ; but if the moves made subsequent to the check be known, they must be retracted. XX. Should a player say
Page 45 - J'tidoube," or words to that, effect, his adversary may compel him to take it ; but if it cannot be legally taken, he may oblige him to move the King; should his King, however, be so posted that he cannot be legally moved, no penalty can be inflicted.
Page 43 - The chess-board must be so placed that each player has a white corner square nearest his right hand If the board have been improperly placed, it must be adjusted, provided four moves on each side have not been played, but not afterwards.
Page 44 - While a player holds the Piece or Pawn he has touched, he may play it to any other than the square he took it from ; but, having quitted it, he cannot recall the move.
Page 49 - If a player agree to checkmate with a particular piece or pawn, or on a particular square, or engage to force his adversary to stalemate or checkmate him, he is not restricted to any number of moves.
Page 46 - If a player make a false move, ie, play a piece or pawn to any square to which it 'cannot legally be moved, his adversary has the choice of three penalties, viz. : 1st, of compelling him to let the piece or pawn remain on the square to which he played it ; 2nd, to move it correctly to another square ; 3rd, to replace the piece or pawn and move his king.
Page 46 - When a Pawn is first moved in a game, it may be played one or two squares ; but in the latter case the opponent has the privilege of taking it en passant with any Pawn which could have taken it had it been played one square only.
Page 46 - ... has the option of compelling him to take it with a Piece or Pawn that can legally take it, or to move his own Piece or Pawn which he touched.
Page 48 - Piece the player may think tit, even though all the Pieces remain on the board. It follows, therefore, that he may have two or more Queens, three or more Rooks, Bishops, or Knights.

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