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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 See also: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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