21. While a game is pending, neither player is permitted to leave the room without giving a sufficient reason, or receiving the other’s consent or company.
22. A player committing a breach of any of these laws must submit to the penalty, which his opponent is equally bound to exact.
23. Any spectator giving warning, either by sign, sound, or remark, on any of the games, whether played or pending, shall be expelled from the room.
24. Should any dispute occur, not satisfactorily determined by the preceding laws, a written statement of facts must be sent to a disinterested arbiter having a knowledge of the game, whose decision shall be final.
TEXT BOOKS.
- Spayth’s Checkers for Beginners.
- Game of Draughts, John Robertson.
- Janvier’s Anderson.
- Bowen’s Bristol.
- Bowen’s Cross.
- Bowen’s Fife.
- E.T. Baker’s Alma.
- Scattergood’s Game of Draughts.
- Lyman’s Selected Problems.
- Backgammon and Draughts, by Berkeley.
- Anderson’s Checkers.
- Dunne’s Draught Proxis.
- Kear’s Sturges.
BACKGAMMON. OR TRIC-TRAC.
Backgammon is played by two persons, each of whom is provided with fifteen men, two dice, and a dice-box. The men on each side are of different colours, black and white, and the players are distinguished by the colour of the men with which they play. The board is divided into two tables, inner and outer, and at the beginning of the game the men may be set up in either of the positions shown in the diagram.
