| Queen | = | 10 |
| Castles | = | 6 |
| Red Bishop | = | 5 |
| White „ | = | 4 |
| Knights at beginning of game | = | 3 |
| Kni„ts a „ the end | = | 2 |
| Pawns | = | 1 |
although practically the last are of little value; certainly not half so valuable as in Single Chess.
Other players may place a slightly different value on the pieces, but this will in a great measure depend on their play. While some work the queen to death, others rely more on their other pieces—in our opinion the wisest play in the long run.
THE BOARD AND MEN.
We have found a board of two-inch squares suit our purpose, and those which fold in the centre, leaving a blank in each corner, seem to us the handiest.
If bone black and white and red and green men cannot be obtained easily, the ordinary wooden black and yellow, and bone red and white, will answer the purpose just as well, but any turner will turn a double set for about two pounds.
Captain George Hope Verney says, in his Four-Handed Chess:—
‘I use two sets of Staunton men. One set is of black and yellow wood, and the other is of red and white bone.
‘The latter was made to order for me at the Civil Service Store in the Haymarket, at a cost of about eighteen shillings.’
The base of the king measures one and five-eighths of an inch, and is three and a half inches high.