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CHECKERS OR DRAUGHTS.

Robert.son's Guide to the Game of Draughts.

Embraoing

all

of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with

S,340

Variation"·

including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises

already pnbliahed, with about 1,200 new and orlgine.l Variations wWoh

appear for the ftret time in 'hie work, forming a thorough and complete

digest and analysis of the Game with corrections and additions np to tho

present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Matcb

play by Yates, Wylie, Barker and others,

will

be found regularly classified.

A

change he.a been made In the trunks generally, and throughout th8

whole work there appears much that

le

fresh and original, Instead of tho

nene.l well-worn book play. Bound in cloth, 8vo, 820 pages...•••.•$3.00

Anderson's Checkers.

Containing complete Instructions and

ru-1.es

for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams;

including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous

Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certalneeneo,

this le a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised,

corrected and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that

le,

hie play when

eonnd le given intact, and where improvements have been shown they

have been Incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.

12mo, cloth . ............................................... .. .... $1.30

Spayth's American Draught Player ; or the Theory and

Practice

of

the Scientific Game

of

Checkers.

Blmp!ifled and

Illustrated

with

Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1;700

Games and Positions. By Henry Spa.ytb. Sixth edition with over three

hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard

L awe of the Game-Full instructions-Draught

Boa.rd

Numbered-Names

of the Games, and how formed-The "Theory of the llfovo and its

Changes" practically explained and Illustrated with Diagrams-Playing

Tables for Draught Clubs-New Systems of Numbering the Board-Pre–

fixing signs to the Variations-List of DraughtTreatises and Pnb!lcatlons

chronologically arranged. Bound in cloth, giltside and bacli:.....•$3.00

Spayth's Game of Draughts.

By

Henry

Spn.yth. This book

is

designed as a supplement to the author's first work, "The American

Draught· Player"; but It Is complete In itselr.

It

contains lucid Instruc–

tions for heginners. Jaws of the game, diagrams, the score of

364

games,

together with

34

novel, Instructive and ingenious "critical positions ",

Cloth

1

gilt back and side..........................................81.30

Spayth's Draughts or Checkers for Beginners.

This

treaijse was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far

the most complete and Instructive elementary work on Dl'aughts ever

published.

It

is profusely 1llustratecl with diagrams of Ingenious strata.–

gems, curious p nsltfons 1md perplexing Problems and contains a great

variety of Interesting nncl instructive •"ames, progressively arranged and

clearly explained with nntes, so that the learner may easily comprehend

them. With thA aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a

proficient In the game. Cloth, gilt side..........................73 eta.

Scattergood's Game of Draughts, or Checkers Simplified

and EXJ>lained. With practical Diagrams and llln•tratlons . together

wltll a Cliecker-Boarn . numbered

e.nd

printed in red. Contslninl( the

Eighteen Stsmdard Gnmes, with over

200

of the bAst variation• •elected

from various antborR. \Vlth •ome nAverbefore published. By D. Scatter–

MOOd. Bound

in

Qlotb, with flexible covers.,••. , •••• ,,,.,, ••••••60

C'fu