be played before the Pawns are moved--King, Queen, Bishop, and Rook are all hemmed in by the rank of Pawns, which they cannot overleap; but the Knight, having the liberty of springing over the heads of other men, can be brought into the field at once. His move is one square in a straight line, and _one in an oblique direction_; or it may be perhaps better understood by saying that he moves two squares in a straight line, and one in a side direction.
No. 6.
BLACK.
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WHITE.
His power and method of taking an opponent's man will be seen from the diagram (No. 6) on page 14.
In this situation, in the centre of the board, he would have the power of taking any one of the men stationed on the squares numbered, by removing the man and placing himself on the vacant square.
THE PAWN.
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. It may, however, for its first move advance two steps, provided no hostile Pawn commands the first square over which
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