A METRICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 67

A METRICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVES.

(By Eugene Henry.) " v The Pawns' moves we may best define • As one square forward in straight line, " Except when, 'on their -first advance,--Of one or' two squares they've the chance. "Unlike the way they progress make They only on diagonals take. • ' Pawns moving from rank two- to four May, be,^ en passant, taken o'er , „ .By adverse pawns that on rank five , * In-. the Adjoining .'file arrive. - , < This citpture 1 cannot" be "delayed, ' . v - - Btxt'intfat a* on.ee—^if e.'«r-r-be m«de^ - "■ O'er, one'square-straight and one oblique The Knight,i can pass and foothold- seek, . . And^ they-, -the power 'io Teap possesp, - ■ s G'er pieces, >'as, they onward, press. Diagonally Bish'ogSjinove?,, , . w ' '" 'And e'er "t*ue : to, their colours^ prove. / /The] Rooks can back 6f forward stride, A3. K well as; laterally/ glide.- ' ' V/"- ■ -The Queen's moves, w^ may briefly state, , In all directions radiate, - . ' ~ ' ' All open' avenues-pervade, '\~ < 3ji ftont,- oblique, side, retrograde. _ The / Kihg' ; moves'6ne* square- any i-way,, - % ■r, /Butj castling, over two—can play. . - •' -'- '• If- King gridsßook unmoved have been, - ' 1 And space between them intervene, 1 ~ Which by the, foe ia unattacked, v -. ~ . They, in co-operation act. ' ' -With the conditions satisfied • The King" can castle either side, v , (