The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 204
layed by two persons on a boardof sixty-four squares, with twenty-four discs of wood or ivory,of opposite colours—generally black and white—each playerhaving twelve men. The squares on the board are of alternatetints, though this, in fact, is of little consequence. The boardis so placed that each… … WHITE.THE BOAED, WITH THE MEN SET IN OEDEE OP PLAT. It will be seen that the men on either side of the board occupycorresponding positions. They may be placed on either colour,but in this country it is usual to play on the white squares. Forconvenience of reference and notation, we adopt the white…
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