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 26
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 onthese diagonals. The Knight, whose movement diifers materially from that ofthe other pieces, and who moves… … In the above diagfam tlie Knight commands the eightnumbered squares, i.e., he can capture any hostUe man onany one of those squares. His march cannot be obstructed,since if anj of the squares immediately surrounding him wereoccupied by any of his own or the enemys men, he could leapover them and…
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