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hussars, five cannon, and eleven fusileers. The king and pawn's game was merely a curious variation from the common method; where the king and pawns on one side were opposed to the king, pieces and pawns on the other, in which the player, with the king and pawns only, was almost certain of winning.
The Germans sometimes play a double game, with two boards by four people, two of a side, each not only playing his own game, but also assisting his partner. The Russians, in addition to other moves, give that of the knight to the queen ; they likewise play four persons at a time, two against two, on a board larger than usual, containing more squares, and a greater number of men. Euler shows a method of covering with the knight all the squares of the board in sixty-four moves. Place the knight on No. 8, and from thence in the following order : 23, 40, 55, 61, 51, 57, 42, 25, 10, 4, 14, 24, 39, 56, 62, 52, 58, 41, 26, 9, 3, 13. 7, 22, 32, 47, 64, 54, 60, 50, 33, 18, 1, 11, 5, 15, 21, 6, 16, 31, 48, 63, 53, 59, 49, 34, 17, 2, 12,27, 44, 38, 28, 43, 37, 20, 35, 45, 30, 36, 19, 29, 46.
The board is technically called the exchequer, the squares are styled houses, the ranges of which in a straight line, from right to left, are denominated ranks, and perpendicularly, from one player to the other, files. |
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EXAMPLES OF VARIOUS MATES.
1. Queen's mate: white king 27, queen 26; black king 25 ; or white king 22, queen 15, and black king 8.
2. Bishop's mate ; white king 24, bishops 21 and 22; black king 8. |
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