Marache's Manual of Chess, by N. Marache

Backgammon Books

Marache's Manual of Chess
With the Games of Backgammon and Dominoes

AUTHOR: N. Marache

YEAR: 1866

PUBLISHER: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers

CITY: New York

BINDING: Hardcover

PAGES: 156

SIZE: 18 cm high, 12 cm wide

DESCRIPTION:
Most of this book is about chess. Twenty-four pages are devoted to backgammon.

CONTENTS:

BACKGAMMON
How to Play the Game
Examples: First game; Second game
Technical Terms of the Game
Hints, Observations and Cautions
Directions for a Learner to Bear his Men
The Laws of Backgammon
Further Rules and Hints
Rules for Playing
Calculation of Chances
A Case of Curiosity and Instruction
A Back Game
RUSSIAN BACKGAMMON

COVER: Containing a description of the board and the pieces, chess notation, technical terms with diagrams illustrating them, relative value of the pieces, laws of the game, general observations of the pieces, preliminary games for beginners, fifty openings of games, give all the latest discoveries of modern masters, with best games and copious notes. Twenty endings of games, showing easiest ways of effecting checkmate. Thirty-six ingenious diagram problems and sixteen curious chess strategems. To which is added a treatise of the games of backgammon, russian backgammon, and dominoes.