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When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Game , Give , Party , Neither


Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Great , Study , Confused , Fault


A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Important , Place , King , Ending


A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Value , Three , Two , May


Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Yourself , Man , Queen , King


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.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Will , Color , Party , Purpose


For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Man , Cannot , Playing , King


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

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Man , Cannot , King , Touching


Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  You , Men , Stand , Battle


If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

Author: Howard Staunton - English Celebrity
  Game , Decision , Anger , Table


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