To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes