Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice (1865)
London, New York, G. Routledge and sons · leaf 22
king, queen, bishop, and knight, copied from aset of very ancient and singularly curious chessmen, which are nowdeposited in the British Museum. They were discovered by apeasant in the year 1831, whilst digging on the seashore in theparish of Uig, in the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, and from the… … THE CHESS-BOAKD AND CHESSMEN, The CHESS-BOAED, or, as it is technically termed, the EXCHEQUER,is a square board divided off into sixty-four compartments or squares,chequered alternately black and white. The rows of squares run-ning from one player to the other, are termed files ; those crossingfrom…
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