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

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

The game of Chess is played by two persons, each having at command a little army of sixteen men, upon a board divided into sixty-four squares.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

Be careful, too, when about to capture a distant Pawn or Piece, that you do not remove your Queen too far from the immediate point of action.

A Pawn reaching the eighth square must be at once exchanged for any piece of its own color (except the King) that the player of the Pawn may elect.

The Rook has the same power in taking as the Queen, forwards, backwards, and sideways, but he cannot, like her, take any man diagonally.