When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

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.

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

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

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.