Selected quad for the lemma: house_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
house_n	black_a	king_n	mate_n	22,551	5	15.5669	5	false
house_n	black_a	king_n	mate_n	22,551	5	15.5669	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19790	Ludus scacchiæ: = chesse-play A game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging; translated out of the Italian into the English tongue. Containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse. Written by G.B.; Libro da imparare giocare a scachi. English. Selections	Damiano, da Odenara.; G. B., fl. 1592-1597.; Vida, Marco Girolamo, ca. 1485-1566. Scacchia ludus. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 6216; ESTC S109216	18,597	48

vsed to go to the warres were the Amazons therefore some name her Amazon white and Amazon blacke But aboue all the players ought to keepe her well because that the game is seldome wonne after that she is once lost Of the Pawne or footeman The footman is the rapier and the target as it were of the great Chesse men and the Kings especially for this cause that when he can proceede so well in warre as to arriue at the last ranke of his enemies he is chosen and made the best peece of the play to wit hee is the Queene And if in making himselfe Queene he can giue checke he is so much the more to be esteemed The marching foorth of the Pawne for the first time is to make two steppes if he will or one onely if he list marching alwayes right before him and not aside And the best Pawnes are next vnto the King Therefore when checke is giuen to the King the Pawne cannot passe the barres of his way for to succour him that is if checke be giuen to the King the Pawne cannot march aside be it on the left or on the right for to couer his King for his way is beset on both sides and cannot go but right forth and alwaies step by step prouided that his way be not stopped It is true that in taking he marcheth awry one onely step of what side soeuer it be and can not take that which is right against him It shall be also best for the Pawne not to aduaunce himselfe much within the campe of his enemy The Checker or Chesse boorde whereon are placed the peeces euery one in his order The blacke side QR QKn QB Q K KB KKn KR P P P P P P P P                                                                 P P P P P P P P QR QKn QB Q K KB KKn KR The white side Beholde here the forme of the Checker or Chesseboorde and how the Chessemen ought to be placed in euery house whereof there are in all threescore and foure to wit thirty two on either side or halfe wherof the eight vppermore opposites or one against another are full of principall peeces on both sides The other eight also next them on both sides are full of Pawnes So that there are thirty two peeces which is to each player sixteene whereof there be eight great ones and eight little The roomes where euery one of them are set I will name seates the other which bee empty I will name places or houses Thorowe the which as well seates as places the great Chesse men and small do runne in their order forward or backeward to giue the mate to the contrary King And to tell you why there be so many houses and why neyther more nor lesse it passeth my intelligence and I thinke there will be found no other resolution but the wil of him that made the play whom the best Historiens record to be Exerses the philosopher otherwise called Philometer who to reproue the tiranny bad maners of Euilmerodach K. of Babylon first deuised this game Some say the inuēters therof were two brethren Libius and Terrhenus who being afflicted with great hunger and famine did inuent this play to the end that in playing it they might imploy their spirites so vehemently that they might the more easily passe ouer the affliction of famine But whosoeuer it was no doubt the inuention and wittinesse thereof is greatly to be commended and followed Certaine generall rules chiefly to be vsed in the Chesse play First you must play nocast or draught in vaine if it be not vpon great necessitie Secondly You must not make a fault Thirdly You must not be too hastie to play Fourthly If you haue a good draught to make looke if you haue not a better Fiftly If you haue aduantage you may wel make a change and yet not loose it Sixtly If you haue aduantage wherewith you may win the game take heede that you spoile not your game nor to abandon your King to win onelie a Pawne Seuenthly the principall thing is to set your king in a sure place when he marcheth forth Eightly The two Pawnes which be on that side where the King is transported must not be remoued but in great necessitie for that oftentimes the game is lost by remoouing the Rookes Pawne or Knights Pawne one roume because that there the contrarie King findeth the way of the mate Ninthly Then you must goe abroad with your peeces and not keep them inclosed at home Lastly it is good that the twoo Pawnes of the King and the Queene be vpon their fourth houses and also those of the Bishops It is to be noted for the well vnderstanding of the marching forth of the Chesse men that the Chesse-boord ought to be set in such sort that the Rooke on the right side bee sette in a white place and take the Chesse men which you will white or blacke Further you must knowe the names of the peeces and of the places for the Chesse men that are on the kings side be named the Kings Chesse men and likewise the kings houses vnto the middest of the Chesse boorde And from thence forward are the contrary kings houses As for example The Pawne which is before thy king is in the second house of thy king And if thou remoue him one step he shall be in the third or if he go further in the fourth house of the king But afterwardes and if he doe goe further yet hee shall be in the fourth house of the King of the contrarie parte And so of all the other Chesse men on that side The other side is that of the Queene as well in Chesse men as in houses therefore for this cause is it needefull to haue before you a Chesse boorde with the Chesse men for to see with your eyes the Arte which briefly shall be declared in this Treatise And so after presupposing the game you may beginne after two sortes to play it as foloweth The first maner of playing The first manner is to beginne with the Kings Pawne and the second is to begin with the Queens Pawne The first according to my iudgement is the best that is to wit to beginne with the Kings Pawne as farre as he may goe And if the contrarie party play the kings Pawne as farre as he may thou shalt play thy Kings knight to three houses from the kings bishop And if he play his kings knight to three houses from the kings bishop thou shalt take with thy knight his kings pawne and if hee take also thy pawne with his knight play thy Queene before thy king And if he retire his knight into the third house of his kings bishop thou shalt giue him check with thy Queene in turning her away from thy knight the which thou shalt remooue into the