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.esfor 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.rdNumbered-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.ndprinted 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