which an inexperienced player is likely to fall.

In this game, as in all the analyses which follow, the reader will be
supposed to play the White Pieces and to have the first move, although,
as it has been before remarked, it is advisable for you to accustom
yourself to play with either Black or White, for which purpose it is
well to practise the attack, first with the White and then with the
Black Pieces.

WHITE. BLACK.
1. K's P. to K's 4th. 1. K's P. to K's 4th.

When the men are first arranged in battle order, it is seen that the
only Pieces which have the power of moving are the Knights, and that to
liberate the others it is indispensably necessary to move a Pawn. Now,
as the King's Pawn, on being moved, gives freedom both to the Queen and
to the King's Bishop, it is more frequently played at the beginning of
the game than any other. You will remember, in speaking of the Pawns it
was shown that on certain conditions they have the privilege of going
either one or two steps when they are first moved.

2. K's B. to Q's B's 4th. 2. K's B. to Q's B's 4th.

Thus far the game illustrative of the _King's Bishop's_ opening is
correctly begun. Each party plays his King's Bishop thus, because it
attacks the most vulnerable point of the adverse position, viz., the
_King's Bishop's Pawn_.

3. Q. B's Pawn to B's 3d. 3. Q's Knight to B's 3d.