Cinch. A thorough hand-book of the game of Cinch, containing the correct method of playing, and the Laws which govern it; compiled from the best and most reliable authorities. By "Trumps".
| 10 cts. |
Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game, with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wyllie, Barker, and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original.
| Cloth, 8vo., 320 pages. | $3.00 |
Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected, and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.
| Cloth. | $1.50 |
Spayth's American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full Instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams.
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Dunne's Draughts Player's Guide and Companion. A Guide to the Student and a Companion for the Advanced Player. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, Standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, including the Wyllie-Bryden Match Games, the Losing Game, and some of the finest Problems of the day, with their Solutions. It includes also the Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Turkish varieties of the game; the entire work being profusely illustrated by Diagrams exhibiting the Problems and the critical positions in the progress of the games.
| 12mo., cloth. | $1.50 |