Excerpt from The Game of Draught Simplified, and Illustrated With Practical Diagrams: With an Exposition of the Theory of the Move and Its Changes, and a New Method of Numbering the Draught BoardThe former edition of the Author's work on Draughts being now out of print, he has been induced, by the solicitations of his friends and the encouragement of numerous subscribers, to prepare the present edition, on which the greatest pains and labour have been bestowed; but before proceeding to explain a few particulars respecting it, he is anxious to take the earliest opportunity of returning his most grateful acknowledgments to those friends and subscribers who have encouraged him in his arduous labour; and he hopes that the work now presented to them will be found not unworthy of their patronage. It had been the author's intention at first to render the present edition more exclusively original than it really is; but on more mature consideration he thought it advisable to insert a few of the variations of Sturges and Sinclair, the absence of which, on account of their merit, renders any work of the kind less interesting and complete. Notwithstanding this admission, however, the present edition contains so much original matter, and presents so many new distinctive features, that it may be looked on rather as a new work than a new edition. To a few of its more prominent characteristics he would now beg to call the reader's attention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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