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 25
ne of fourhostile men at the extremity of the board, stationed on thesquares numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively. He has thesame power of capture in the direction indicated by the figureson the diagram, if the pieces in question were situated onany of the intervening squares. As the Rook, however,… … WHITE. The Bishop can only take diagonally. Here he com-mands thirteen squares, and has the option of taking any oneof four men occupying the squares numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4respectively, if his range be unobstructed. Similarly, he couldtake any one of these men posted on intermediate squares…
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