The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . ny men as may be so situated,making a second, third, or even fourthleap, as the case may be, in the samemove, or rather series of moves. Eachplayer moves alternately; and the ob- ject of the game is to capture the op-ponents men, or to pin them in theirseveral squares so that they cannotmove without being taken. He whofirst succeeds in clearing the board ofhis adversarys men, or so pinningthem, wins the game. The men moveforwards, on the diagonals only; butwhen the player succeeds in moving aman to the last row of squares on hiso
The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . ny men as may be so situated,making a second, third, or even fourthleap, as the case may be, in the samemove, or rather series of moves. Eachplayer moves alternately; and the ob- ject of the game is to capture the op-ponents men, or to pin them in theirseveral squares so that they cannotmove without being taken. He whofirst succeeds in clearing the board ofhis adversarys men, or so pinningthem, wins the game. The men moveforwards, on the diagonals only; butwhen the player succeeds in moving aman to the last row of squares on hisopponents side, such man becomes aking, and is crowned — by placinganother man of the same colour ontop of him. The kings move bothbackwards and forwards on the dia-gonals. Either player may make asmany kings as he can. Draught Notation.—For the purposeof recording games the white squaresare numbered from one to thirty-two,beginning at the left-hand top very little study is required to re-member the position of the pieces with-out a numbered THE NUMBERED BOARD. Laws of Draughts:— I. The board must be so placed thateach player has a white double-cornerat his right hand at his own end ofthe board. II. The choice of colour and thefirst move of the game must be deter-mined by lot, after which each playertakes the move alternately. III. Black moves first, and theplayers change men with each game. IV. Pointing over the board, or anyother action by which the player pre- GAMES AND THEIR RULES. 265 vents his adversary from fully seeingthe men, is not allowed. V. The player who touches a man,except for the purpose of adjusting iton its square, must move it. A manmoved over the angle of a square musthe moved to that square and no other. VI. Any piece en prise must betaken ; and if it be not taken, theplayers opponent may huff him byremoving from the board the manwhich should have made the capture,and then playing a man of his is optional with a player either
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