DIAGRAM I  .—Showing the like the queen's, unlimited, with arrangement of the pieces at the commencement of a 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 kind . They move from one corner of any rectangle of three squares by two to the opposite corner; thus, in diagram 3, the white knight can move to the square occupied by the black one, and 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 colour . The king, queen, rooks and bishops may 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 board . The king cannot capture any man which is protected by another man . The moves and capturing powers of the pawns are as follows:—Each 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 privilege of moving two squares or not .

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

left front . A pawn moves like a rook, captures like a bishop, but only one square at a time . When a pawn arrives at an eighth square, viz. at the extreme limit of the board, he may, at the 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 .