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is played by two parties, each having a mimic army of sixteen warriors, upon a board of sixty-four squares. These squares are usually coloured white and black alternately, and it has become a rule that the Chess-board shall be so placed that each party has a white square at his right-hand corner.

Diagram No. 1 exhibits the board and Chess-men duly arranged for the commencement of the game.

Each party, it is seen, has two ranks of men; on the first stand the Officers, or Pieces, as we term them, and on the next the Pawns; and, for the purposes of distinguishing these forces, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different colour to those of the other.