+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
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 he leaps_, for, in that case, the
adverse Pawn has the option of taking him in his passage, _as if he had
moved one step only_. A Pawn is the only one of the forces _which goes
out of his direction to capture_, and which has not the advantage of
moving backwards; but it has one remarkable privilege, by which, on
occasions, it becomes invaluable, _whenever it reaches the extreme
square of the file on which it travels, it is invested with the title
and assumes the power of any superior Piece, except the King, which the
player chooses_. From this circumstance it frequently happens that one
party, by skilful management of his Pawns, contrives to have two, and
sometimes even three Queens on the board at once, a combination of force
which of course is irresistible.