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A11524	The famous game of chesse-play truely discouered, and all doubts resolued; so that by reading this small booke thou shalt profit more then by the playing a thousand mates. An exercise full of delight; fit for princes, or any person of what qualitie soeuer. Newly published by A.S. Gent.	Saul, Arthur.	1614 (1614)	STC 21772; ESTC S116800	17,752	61

giueth guard to the third house before the Queene and the third house before the Kings Bishop the Queenes Pawne giueth guard to the thrid house before the King the third house before her owne Bishop the Kings Bishops Pawne giueth guard to the third house before the King and the third house before the Kings Knight the Queenes Bishops Pawne giueth guard to the third house before the Queene and the third house before the Queenes Knight the Kings Knights Pawne giueth guard to the third house before the Kings Bishop and to the third house before the Kings Duke the Queenes Knights Pawne giueth guard to the third house before the Queenes Bishop and to the third house before the Queenes Duke the Kings Dukes Pawnes and the Queenes Dukes Pawnes giueth but one guard a peice and that is to the third houses before the Knights by reason they stand on the side of the field Thus haue I shewed you from the King to the Pawne how the men guard each other before there be any of them stirred off their places CHAP. V. For passing the guard of a Pawne FOr as much as many times there is question made whether a Pawne of the white Kings may passe the guard of the blacke Kings at his first going forth if the blacke King haue aduanced a Pawne into the fift house without leaue of the blacke King whereunto I answere no for this is a rule strictly obserued in martiall dissipline from whence this game had his first beginning that no man shall be permitted to passe by any guard without leaue first obtained yet at this game the Pawnes may passe the guard one of another this house or houses onely excepted for if a Pawne be aduanced into the fift house by the blacke King and that the white Kings Pawne might passe without leaue it would many times be the ouer-throwing of the blacke Kings game and further it is held fowle play to play forth your Pawne by the guard of another Pawne so aduanced vvithout crauing leaue so then if the King who hath aduanced a Pawne into the fift house will suffer you to passe you may because there is power in him to deny you such a fauour as well as to grant you the priuiledge of such a liberty and thus much for the readers satisfaction that you may not passe the guard of a Pawne that is aduanced into the fift house without leaue Some therebe also that are perswaded if the King be once checked hee shall loose the benefit of releeuing himselfe in any of the Dukes quarters what extremity soeuer he be driuen vnto albeit the King checked doth couer the checke giuen him such as are of this opinion are in the wrong for so long as the checked King can couer the checke giuen him and not remoue to auoyd the checke nor hath not moued before vpon no occasion he hath still the benefit of exchanging vvith any of his Dukes but if hee be once remoued from his place whither it be for the releeuing of one of his men or vpon compulsion for the auoyding of a checke he shall then after such time loose the benefit of exchanging with the Duke CHAP. VI. Whether it be aduantage to haue the first draught yea or no. FOr satisfying the reader in this point it is certaine there is aduantage by playing first The difference by playing first for vvho so hath the first draught if hee can play well shall make the other still defendant and will visit him vvith such attempts and assaults wherein if the King defendant faile in the least point to answere he shall assuredly loose the field but betweene such as know not the game rightly it is no matter which of them playeth first by reason they know not when they haue vantage one of another and if it fall out that the one of them should haue such cleere eyes as to discerne hee hath the better of the game and cannot make vse of his aduantage betweene such young scollers it skilleth not who playeth first CHAP. VII What difference there is in the great men and of their true worth MAny there are who can play a little at this game The valew of the men that perswade themselues if they can take one great man for another they shall doe well enough but it is not so for there is a great deale of difference in the men and first of all for the King who albeit he is King and that his command is to be obayed of his subiects yet it is in all the Counsaile of warre held vnfit for the King to hazard his person at any time and therefore hee doth ordaine a Generall vnder him to haue the command of the army which generall shall haue vnder him Coronels Captaines and other inferiour officers for his assistance for the better gouerning of the army Euen so at this game there is a generall which is the Queene for shee doth more seruice then any too Dukes can and if it happen at any time that shee should be lost the King whose Queene is taken must forsake the field of force vnlesse the aduerse King be a very silly King and cannot make vse of such aduantage And yet to make the Reader to vnderstand this better know this if the white King should in the taking the blacke Kings Queene lose two of his Noble-men as his two Dukes or his two Bishops or his two Knights yet the white King shall haue the better for his losse is not so great as the blacke Kings vvho hath lost his Queene Some that write of Chesse-play calleth the Queene the Amazon because the Amazonites goe to warre as familiarly as the men Next to the Queene for valew is a Duke for by how much a Queene is more in worth then a Duke by so much a Duke is more in valew then a Bishop or a Knight for a Duke is vvorth two Bishops or two Knights by reason hee can giue a Mate himselfe with the help of the King which a Bishop or a Knight cannot doe Now you say two Bishops can giue a Mate with the help of the King it is true but the Duke will doe it sooner also a Mate is to be giuen vvith a Bishop and a Knight and this is also true but hee must play well that can giue a Mate with them yet you see euery Scoller at Chesse-play can giue a Mate with a King and a Duke Besides a Dukes checke goeth from one side of the field to the other throughout all the colours and a Bishops checke serueth but for one colour in the field therefore you must haue both the Bishops to doe the seruice vvhich one Duke can discharge and therefore I conclude that a Duke is better then two Bishops and for the Bishops they are better then the Knights by reason they can giue a Mate vvith the King vvhen no other men are left to help them which the Knights cannot doe and therefore they are counted better then

of the field Likewise you shall place the black Queene in a blacke house next to her king which shall also be the fourth house on the blacke Kings side Thus when you haue placed the Queenes next to their Kings then shal you place on the other side of the Kings first a Bishop then a Knight and next to the Knight you shall place a Duke whose place is in the first house of the field the Queenes haue either of them likewise one Bishop one Knight and one Duke the Kings haue either of them foure Pawnes and three Noble-men and the Queenes haue the like the Kings Pawnes are these first their owne Pawnes next their Bishops Pawnes then their Knights Pawnes and last of all their Dukes Pawnes the Queenes they haue also three Noble-men and foure Pawnes which are these first their owne Pawnes then their Bishops Pawnes next their Knights Pawnes and last of all their Dukes Pawnes The Pawnes stand before the Noble-men from one corner of the field to the other the Pawnes haue all one manner of proceeding which shall be shewed vnto thee when wee come to speake of the aduancing of the men and of the difference that is betweene them CHAP. III. A Controuersie resolued ANd for as much as many times in play some men will be fingering and taking vp of his aduersaries men and then out of the abundance of his vvit thinketh to play better in some other place and so setteth downe his aduersaries man againe this is very fowle play for albeit it is true he cannot play his aduersaries man so also it is true hee may not take him off his place vnlesse hee throw him out of the field and install his owne man in the same house where the other stood for by the taking vp of a man in such a fashion and not to play it some a iudge the player for his punishment to kisse the foote of the man which he so taketh vp but indeed of right hee ought to loose halfe his stake that at any time vseth such play and if a man touch a man of his owne and will not play him then hee ought directly to loose the game and it is knowne vnto all men that can play that if you touch any of your owne men you must play him and looke what colour you touch with your man so taken vp in the same colour or house shall hee stand and if at any time the player which so playeth refueth so to doe the other may lawfully take vp his owne stake and play no further of that game A chiefe lesson to be obserued in this play And for as much as some in the time their aduersary is framing his purpose where to play they will be talking or singing or vsing some apish trickes to trouble the minde of him vvhom they play against this is held also very fowle play and ought not to be vsed at this game vpon paine of loosing the third part of his stake that vseth it for it is a game in which silence is to be vsed and all deuises whatsoeuer layde a side that may trouble one another in the time of their play this being obserued thou art freed from the penalty before mentioned A Caueate for such as will condition to giue a Mate Imagine that two were a playing and that many men on both sides were lost and no odes in the men of either side so that the game were indifferent that then I say one of the gamsters should giue ouer the game and draw his stake the other at this seeming to be a grieued thinking his men standeth better then the others which hath giuen ouer he saith had you playd out the game I should haue wonne it the other replying demandeth what hee will lay more one the game the party agrieued vpon this offereth a crowne more that hee will winne the Mate now here is a condition which if hee performe not he looseth both his first and last stake The way for him that taketh any man vpon such condition is still to change and to bring it vnto a dead game and so shall he this way winne the stakes by reason the other had tyed himselfe by obligation to giue the Mate wherefore let any one take heed how he entreth into such condition for who so doth it giueth the other aduantage whether it be at the beginning of the mate or after it is all one CHAP. IIII. How the men guard each other THe Kings haue either of them seauen men a piece and the Queenes as many to attend them The King whether hee be blacke or white giueth guard to fiue persons before hee goeth forth and being once aduanced forward into the field although it be but into the second house hee then and still after in all his march giueth guard to eight houses till he come to one side or other of the field againe Now those fiue whom hee guardeth before hee goeth forth are these first of all hee guardeth his Queene on whom his greatest care dependeth secondly his owne Bishop thirdly his owne Pawne fourthly his Queenes Pawne and lastly his Bishops Pawne The Queene protecteth her King her Bishop her owne Pawne her Kings Pawne and her Bishops Pawne by this you see the Queene guardeth as many as the King before she goeth forth and after till the field be wonne or lost the Kings Duke giueth guard to his owne Pawne and the Kings Knight and to no more till hee be from the side of the field and then hee giueth guard to foure houses and in like sort is the power of the Queenes Duke the Kings Bishop giueth guard to the Kings Pawne and the Kings Knights Pawne the Queenes Bishop giueth guard to the Queenes Pawne and the Queenes knights Pawne the Knights giueth guard but to three houses before they goe forth and after they are from the side of the field they giue guard to as many houses as the King or the Queene doth Now those houses whom the Knights guard ere they goe forth are these the Kings Knight giueth guard to the Kings Pawne and to the third house in the front of the Kings Bishops Pawne and to the third house in the front of the Kings Dukes Pawne the Queenes Knight giueth guard to her owne Pawne and to the third house in the front of her Bishops Pawne as also to the third house in the front of her owne Duke The Bishops of either side are tyed to one onely colour out of the vvhich they may not goe the vvhite Bishops haue the command of the white field and the blacke Bishops the command of the blacke field and they martch sloping forward or backward if way be made for them and can indanger or giue checke from one corner of the field to the other The Pawnes who stand in rancke before the King and the Nobility I shal shew you their manner of guard which they giue before they be aduanced or moued off their places The Kings Pawne