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 34
een somecontroversy on this point, but when the question was raisedtwelve years ago, at the Chess Congress of 1862, the code oflaws was revised, and it was decided that a player should havethe option of refusal of promotion, as positions may sometimesoccur in which a plajer compelled to take a… … ri: (/) In Italy the Pawn was formerly always retained at the eighth square as aPawn, until some piece was captured for which it could be exchanged. The plurality 18 THE CHESS-PLAYERS MANUAL. In the above position (White having the move), if Whitetake Eook with Pawn and claim a Queen or any other…
Chess
Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
