changed for a Queen or
a Knight, seeing that the Queen's moves include those of the Rook
and Bishop. Thus you may have two or more Queens, three or more
Rooks, Bishops, or Knights on the board at the end of the game.]

xiv. Should any dispute arise, the question must be submitted to a
bystander, whose decision is to be considered final.

For information as to the best modes of play, the Openings and Endings
of Games, &c., read 'The Book of Chess', by G.H. Selkirk, published by
Messrs. Houlston and Sons.

72. Draughts, Rules of the Game.

The accepted laws for regulating the game are as follows:

i. The board is to be so placed as to have the white or black double
corners at the right hand of the player.

ii. The first move is taken by chance or agreement, and in all the
subsequent games of the same sitting, the first move is taken
alternately. Black generally moves first.

iii. Any action which prevents your adversary from having a full
view of the board is not allowed, and if persisted in, loses the
game to the offending player.

iv. The man touched must be moved, but the men may be properly
adjusted during any part of the game. After they are so placed, if
either player, when it is his turn to play, touch a man, he must
move it. If a man be so moved as to be visible on the angle
separating the squares, the player so touching the man must move it
to the square indicated.

[By this it is meant that a player may not move first to one square
and then to another. Once moved on to a square, the man must remain
there.]

v. It is optional with the player either to allow his opponent to
stand the huff, or to compel him to take the offered piece.

["Standing the huff" is when a player refuses to take an offered
piece, but either intentionally or accidentally makes another move.
His adversary then removes the man that should have taken the piece,
and makes his own move--huff and move, as it is called.]

vi. Ten minutes is the longest time allowed to consider a move,
which if not made within that time, forfeits the game.

vii. It is compulsory upon the player to take all the pieces he can
legally take by the same series of moves. On making a King, however,
the latter remains on his square till a move has been made on the
other side.

viii. All disputes are to be de