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DIAGRAM I

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIAGRAM I .—Showing the like the See also:queen's, unlimited, with arrangement of the pieces at the commencement of a See also:game. the same exceptions. The bishops move diagonally in any direction whether backward or forward. They have an unlimited range, with the same exceptions. The knights' moves are of an absolutely different See also:kind. They move from one corner of any rectangle of three squares by two to the opposite corner; thus, in diagram 3, the See also:white See also:knight can move to the square occupied by the See also:black one, and See also:vice versa, or a knight could move from C to D, or D to C. The move may be made in any direction. It is no obstacle to the knight's move if squares A and B are occupied. It will be perceived that the knight always moves to a square of a different See also:colour. The See also:king, queen, rooks and bishops may See also:capture any foeman which stands anywhere within their respective ranges; and the knights can capture the adverse men which stand upon the squares to which they can leap. The piece which takes occupies the square of the piece which is taken, the latter being removed from the See also:board. The king cannot capture any See also:man which is protected by another man. The moves and capturing See also:powers of the pawns are as follows:—Each See also:pawn for his first move may advance either one or two squares straight forward, but afterwards one square only, and this whether upon starting he exercised his See also:privilege of moving two squares or not.

A pawn can never move backwards. He can capture only diagonally—one square to his right or See also:

left front. A pawn moves like a See also:rook, captures like a See also:bishop, but only one square at a See also:time. When a pawn arrives at an eighth square, viz. at the extreme limit of the board, he may, at the See also:option of his owner, be exchanged for any other piece, so that a player may, e.g., have two or more queens on the board at once.

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