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Chess,with twenty-sevenillustrative diagrams.Met with im-mediate success on publication,andmany important press notices cor-rectly forecast popular appreciationand extensive sale.One critic de-scribed it as“much needed,present-able,lucid and helpful.”Leading au-thorities refer to it as the best chessbook known for beginners.  \n# The Beginner's\n\nBOOK OF CHESS  \nBy  \nF.HOLLINGS  \nEIGHTH EDITIONThoroughly Revised  \nDAVID MCKAY COMPANY,INC.  \nNEW YORK  \nMANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OFAMERICA BY VAN REES PRESS,NEW YORK  \nCONTENTS  \nPAGEA Word to the Beginner5The Board ....5The Pieces  \n..6The Moves ..8Check and Checkmate18Castling22“En Passant”..26Draws ..29Notation32How to Record Positions ..36The “Why and Wherefore”of Moves40Illustrative Openings of Masters ..41Some Rules ..   ..45Some Brilliant Games46Some Hints ..50APPENDIX I.  \nConcerning Problems52  \n3  \n# A Dozen Problems ..   ..Solution of the 2-Movers ..Solution of the 3-Movers ..\n\nAPPENDIX Ⅱ.  \nKriegspiel  \nAPPENDIX III.  \nHow to Form a Chess Club..  \n.  \n.  \n546060  \n62  \n64  \n# A Word to the Beginner\n\nTHERE ARE many who,seeing the charm whichChess has for its votaries,would like to become ac-quainted with the game.But they shrink from the sup-posed great labour of learning how to play it.\"Chess,\"they think,\"must be a very hard game to learn.\"Theyare much mistaken,and you,for whom this little book ismeant,must not make their mistake.Chess is really avery easy game to learn,as you will,I am confident,ad-mit if you go with moderate care through the simplecourse of lessons which I am now about to give you.  \n# THE BOARD\n\nI wILL begin by telling you about the board on whichthe game is played.  \nIt is exactly the same kind of board as is used fordraughts—a board of 64 squares which differ alternatelyin colour.The lighter colour is called White,the darkercolour Black.  \nThe squares of the board looked at as they run side-ways,that is,from right to left of the player,are calledrows or ranks.If you count them you will find thatthere are eight rows or ranks.  \nThe squares as they run straight ahead in front of theplayer are called files.The number of fles is eight also.  \nThere is one other way of looking at the squares,  \nnamely,slantwise.Looked at in this way the squaresare called diagonals.The longest diagonal is one ofeight squares,the shortest is one of two squares.  \nThe principal thing you have to keep in mind about theboard is that it must always be so placed that the cornersquare at your right hand side in the first row is a white square.  \n# THE PIE CES\n\nI wILL now tell you allabout the pieces,or,as they arealso called,the men.  \nThere are 32 pieces in all—16 white and 16 black.They are shown in the diagram below.You can see ata glance that the likeness between most of them is suchthat when one knows the meaning of six of them heknows the meaning of the whole 32.These six are theKing,the Queen,the Bishop,the Knight,the Rook,andthe 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