The chess-players' manual : containing the laws of the game according to the revised code laid down by the British Chess Association in 1862 (1902)
Gossip, George Hatfield Dingley, Lipschütz, S · Philadelphia : D. McKay · leaf 23
ned on any of the other seven squares adjacentto the one which the White King occupies, he could equallycapture it, provided it was unprotected by some other piece orPawn. In the same way, if Black has the move, the BlackKing can capture the adverse Pawn in front of him ; or if thisPawn were… … WHITE. Here the Queen commands no less than twenty-seven squares.She has the option of capturing any one of eight men on the INTRODUCTION. 7 squares numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 at theedges of the board if her march be unobstructed. Were thesemen nearer, upon any of the…
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