not be to hastie to play Yf you haue a good draughte to make looke if there be not a better Yf you haue aduauntage you may well make a chaunge and yet not loose it Yf you haue aduauntage wherewith you may wyn the game take good heede for vndoing your game nor to abandone your king for to winne only a paune The principall thinge that you haue to doe is to set your king in a sure place when he marcheth forthe The two Paunes whiche bee on that syde where the kinge is transported oughte not to be remoued but in great necessitie for that that often tymes the game is lost by remouinge the Rookes Paune or knightes Paune one roume because that not there the contrarye Kyng findeth the way of the mate You muste goe abrode wyth your pieces and not keepe them enclosed It is good that the two Paunes of the King and of the Queene be vpon their fourth houses Yea also those of the Bishopps It is to be noted for the wel vnderstanding of the marching for the of the Cheastmen that the cheastbourd ought to be set in such sorte that the Rooke on the right side be set in a white place take y e cheast men which you wil white or black Further you must know the name of y e pieces of y e houses places for y e cheastmen which are of the kings syde bee named the Kings Cheastmen and lykewyse the Kings houses vnto the middest of the Cheastbourd Because that from thence forwarde those are the contrarye Kyngs houses As for example the Paune whiche is before thy King is in the seconde house of thy King and if thou remoue him one steppe he shalbe in the thyrd or if he go as far as he may he shalbe in y e fourth house of thy King but afterwardes if he passe further he shalbe in the fourth house of the king of thy contrary partye And so it is of all the other Cheastmen of that syde The other syde is that of the quene aswel in cheastmē as in houses for this cause it is nedefull to haue before you a Cheastbourde with the Cheastmen for to see with youre eye the art which shalbe declared in this present treatise And after hauynge presupposed the game you may beginne after two sortes The seconde Chapter THE first maner is to beginne with the Kinges Paune And the seconde is to beginne with the Queenes Paune The first accordinge to my iudgement is best That is to wit to begin with the Kings Paune as far as he may go I will cause thee alwayes to holde the whyte part And if thy contrary partie play his Kings Paune as farre as he maye thou shalt playe thy kings Knight to three houses from the kinges bishoppe And if he play his kings knight to thre houses frō his kings bishop thou shalt take with thy knight his kinges Paune if he take also thy paune with his knight playe thy queene before thy king And if he retyre his knight into the thirde house of his kinges bishop y u shalt geue him checke w t thy quene in turning her away frō thy knight the whiche y e shalt remoue into the thirde house of his queenes bishop And he can not play so wel but that he shall lose his quene If in steede of takinge thy Paune with his knight he take it with his quene y u shalt take his with thine whiche afterwarde shall be taken with his knight This done thou shalt geue him check w t thy knight in taking the Paune of his quenes bishop and therefore he shalbe forced to loose his queenes Rooke And if he take not thy Paune but to saue his queene placeth her in the thirde house of his queenes bishoppe And if he remoue not his Knight but play his quene before his king thou shalt take his knight with thy Quene then he wyl play his Quenes Paune one roume against thy Knight to the ende that if thou remoue it from thence he maye take thy Queene For this cause thou shalt playe thy Queenes Paune as farre as he may go and if he playe the Paune of his Kings bishop one steppe thou shalt play the paune of thy kings bishop as far as he maye go if he take thy knight with his queenes paune thou shalt take his paune with that of thine and yf he play his other knight to the second house of his queene thou shalt remoue thyne to the thyrde house of thy queenes bishop by that meanes thy quene shall remayne safe And if y e paune of his kings bishop take thy paune y u shalt play thy knyght to the fourth place of his queene for to take her and if he set her in her thirde house thou shalte take hys paune with thyne And if he take thy Paune with hys knight thou shalt set thy queenes bishoppe in the fourth house of thy kings bishop in so doing he shall loose of force his knight but if he take not thy paune w t his knight he shall haue loste hys Thou shalt playe thy kings bishop to the fourth house of his queenes knight for to take her if in stede of takinge her she take thy bishop thou shalte geue him checke wyth thy knight in taking the paune of his quenes bishop then shalt thou take his Queene for the gayne is much greater then of the Rooke And if in stede of placyng his quene in the thirde house of his bishop he place her in the fourth thou shalte set thy quenes bishop in the thyrde roume of thy king for to take her And if he geue the checke with his queene in the fourth house of hys Rooke thou shalt couer it with thy bishop by which meanes he can do no more but remoue her into the thirde house of his bishop and thou shalt play the Paune of thy quenes knight as far as he may go for to take his queene then he shalbe forced to set his quene in y e third house of his bishop thou shalt playe thy kings bishop into the fourth house of his knight for to take his queue and if she take it thou haste thyne instruction in the last article before And he can not play but ill for if it come to pillage or spoyle of quenes thou shalt haue stil the aduauntage of the checke of thy knight for to take his Rooke And therefore he shalbe alwayes the weaker both in great and smale pieces as shalbe declared in the article folowing And yf he sette hys Queene in the thirde house of hys Kynge thou shalte yet geue hym checke wyth thy knight accordinge to the laste instruction But yf he sette her in the thyrde place of hys Kynges knight whiche is the best that he could play ye shall spoyle together your queenes then shalte y e geue the checke with thy knight in taking the paune of his queenes bishop for to take his Rooke Another maner of playing
wyll pushe his queenes Paune one steppe whiche is better played for hym then to spoyle one another because that he is y e weaker in great pieces When therefore he shall haue pushed his queenes Paune one steppe within the borders of thy campe thou shalte sette thy queenes Bishoppe in the fourth house of hys kynges Knyghte for to take hys Queene the whiche for to resist he wyll remoue the Paune of his kinges Bishoppe one steppe whiche will cause to retyre thy Bishoppe to the fourth house of thy Rooke And yf he playe the other kynges Knight hys two steppes thou shalt retyre thy Bishoppe into the third house of thy kynges Knighte and yf he wyll breake thy barres in playinge the Paune of his kynges Bishoppe one steppe thou shalte take hym with thy kynges Paune and yf he take thy Paune with his quenes Bishop thou shalt play thy quenes Knight into the secōd house of thy Queene for to hinder alwayes that hys Kynges paune doe not descende into thy campe but yf peraduenture he doe descende after that draughte made thou shalt take him with thy queenes paune and yf hys Bishoppe take thy paune thou shalte take hys Bishoppe with thy Knighte and yf he take not thy paune with his bishoppe thou shalte take his other queenes paune with thy kynges Knighte So shall he bee weaker then thou aswell in great Cheastmen as in small The .viii. Chapter How he ought to playe to whom is geuen the aduauntage of a knight IF thy contrarye partie playe hys kinges Paune as farre as maye go thou shalt playe so likewyse thy kinges Paune and if he playe his kinges Knighte to the thyrde house of the Bishoppe thou shalte playe thy queenes Knighte to the thyrde house of the Bishop He wil remoue his kynges Bishop to the fourth house of his queenes Bishoppe and thou shalte playe also thy kinges Bishoppe to the fourth house of thy queenes Bishop yf he playe the Paune of his queenes Bishoppe one steppe thou shalte sette thy kinges Bishoppe in the thyrd house of the queenes knight And if he playe his queenes paune as farre as he maye for to breake thy poynte thou shalte playe thy queenes Paune one steppe and yf he take thy kinges Paune wyth his queenes Paune thou shalte take his with that of thy Queene And what thing so euer it be hinder him alwayes if it be possible for takinge of thy kinges Paune because that it is one of the greatest strengthes of thy game If therefore he playe his kynges Rooke one steppe for to hynder that with thy queenes Bishoppe thou doe couer his Knighte thou shalt play forth thy kinges Knight to the thyrde house of the Bishop And if he set his queenes Bishoppe in the fourth house of his kynges Knighte thou shalte remoue thy rookes Paune one step which wil cause him to retyre into the fourth house of his kinges Rooke And then thou shalte playe the Paune of thy kinges Knighte as farre as he maye goe in suche sorte that he shalbe forced either to lose hys kinges Paune whiche thou shalt take with thy kinges Knight or elles his queenes Bishoppe which thou shalte take wyth thy Knyghtes Paune yf he retyre not one roume backewarde But if in taking with his Knight the Paune of thy kinges Knight he bee content to loose the same Knighte for to winne thy twoo Paunes to wit that of thy kinges Knighte and then that of thy Rooke whiche he will take wyth his queenes Bishoppe thou shalte sette thy Rooke in the seate of thy Knyghte in the roume of the sayde Bishoppe and if for to defende hys Bishoppe he remoue hys Rookes Paune one steppe thou shalte set thy Queene in hys thyrde house and therefore he can not hynder thee to take hys kinges Paune and so shall his game be in an yll order The ende of the Cheastes play PRINTED at london by Rouland Hall for Ia-Rovvbothum are to bee solde at his shoppe vnder Bovve church 1562. This 5 table foloweth the play thre marked A. 2. This table is the continuatiō of the first leuing the 2. marked with B. 1. This table foloweth the. 3. of an other fashion thā the article of the. 5. This table foloweth the last before This table is the continuatiō of the 3. of another maner then the other Ye muste finishe the game 3. answerīg to the first 4 folowing the. 3. Ye muste holde on this play Fygure 5. folowing the. 3. Ye muste holde on Fygure Ye muste holde on Ye muste holde on A table folowing the first of the 4. Chap. by another fashion It semeth that thys play is false for his kīg had not stayed and was yet in his whyte house which is out of the checke of this lepe of thy knight in the secōd hous of his kinges bishop which is also a whyte house and ioyninge a syde to that of his sayd kynge
are set in the vttermoste ends of the Cheastbourd as a stroÌ„g rampier in the fronte Their office is not to remoue but in necessitie and chiefelye for the succoure of theyr Kynge Of the knight or horseman THe Horseman is also named as representinge a man of Armes whiche fighteth on horsebarke and his seat is next vnto the Towre from whence he must come into battaile and place him selfe where he may most offeÌ„d For there is no piece in the Cheastbourd that more readily may do hurt then he because of his marching forth whiche is made from three into three places to witte from whyte into blacke and from black into whyte and yet he ceasseth not to make his assault or leape although he be enuyroned prouided that he haue roume to place him selfe in Of the Bishop or Archer IN the auncient tyme the French men named him Foole whiche seemeth vnto me an improper name The Spaniardes named him prince with some reason For as Prince of the blood he is nerer vnto the King and the Quene then any other of the Cheastmen And some name him Archer because that their draughtes draw alwaies asyde and neuer forthe right as it is the office of a good Archer or Har quebusier in warre whiche neuer planteth him self right against his enemie but in skirmishinge or in plaine fight make semblaunce to shoote at one and shooteth at another not remainynge longe in a place If our Cheasse Archer haue the passage open he maye go from one corner of the Cheastbourde into the other But as for the aduantage of him or of the Knight it is litle and hathe therein but the disposings of the game in the whiche some tymes the one is better then the other Like as also there bee players or gamsters which helpe them selues better with the horseman then with y e archer some other contrarywise Of the Kyng THe king is the head of the Conducte According to the Spaniards he hath libertie to assault thre roumes or stepps as he listeth yea he maye make the assaulte of the knight so that he haue not the waye but it muste be then whylest he is yet in his lodgyng and that he is not remoued otherwyse he can make no more but one steppe Although that in Italy the kynge yf he haue the waye open maye runne all the length of the Cheastbourd or may remoue a Paune to set him selfe in his place And in France thei cause him to make two steppes alonge his front Prouided that there bee no pieces betwene him and the Rooke set the rooke in the place of the king Beholde here his marchinges and his libertie prouided that he haue had no checke And for to tel you the truth the kinge was played none otherwyse in the auncient tyme but after the maner of the Frenchmen yea the most part of the Spaniards and Portingales who are estemed the best players did play it so Of the Quene or Amasone SOme name her Queene other some Lady it is the best piece on the Cheastbourd also she representeth the Kings wife Her lodginge is nexte to the Kinges and hath as great a traine as the king Briefely she representeth a Kings Lieutenant in an armye she doth wheÌ„ she wil the office of y erooks also of y e bishops And because y e seldom the wiues go to warre that the first that so much aduauntaged their kynde as to go thither and worke merueyles were the Amasones therefore some name her Amasone whyte Amasone blacke But aboue all the Players ought to kepe her well because that the game is seldome wonne after that she is once loste Of the Paune or foteman THe footeman is the rampier the target of the great Cheast men and by the kynges especialtie For this cause that when he can procede so well in warre as to arriue at the laste rancke of hys enemies he is chosen and made the best piece of the playe to wit he is the Quene And if in making himselfe Queene he can geue checke he is so muche the more to be estemed The marchynge forthe of the Paune for the fyrste tyme is to make two assaultes or leapes yf he wyll or one only marchyng alwayes right before him and not asyde And the best Paunes are next vnto the King Also therefore wheÌ„ check is geueÌ„ to y e king the Paune can not passe the barres of hys way for to succour him that is to say yf checke be geuen to the Kyng the Paune can not marche asyde be it on the lefte or on the right for to couer his Kinge for his waye is beset on bothe sydes and can not go but right forth and alwayes steppe by steppe after his fyrst marchyng forthe prouided that his waye bee not stopped It is true that in takyng he marcheth awrye one only steppe of what syde so euer it bee and can not take that whiche is right agaynst him It shalbe also best for the Paune not to auaunce him selfe muche within the campe of his enemie The Checker or Cheastbourde vvherevpon are placed the pieces euery one accordynge to hys order BEholde here the forme of the Checker or Cheastbourde and how the Cheastmen ought to be placed in euery house wherof there are sixtie foure in all To wit thirtie two on either halfe or syde whereof the eight vttermost opposites or one against another are ful of principall pieces on both sydes The other eight also nexte them on both sides are full of Pawnes So that there are thirtie two pieces whyche is to eche player sixtene whereof there be eight greate ones and eight litle ones And the rowmes where euery one of them are set I wyll name Seates the other which be emptie I will name them places or houses indiffereÌ„tly Thorough the which aswel Seates as places the greate Cheastmen and smal doe runne accordinge to their order be it in aduancinge or reculinge for to geue the mate to the contrary King For to be able to tel you why there is so many houses and why there is neither mo nor lesse that passeth my intelligence Neither hath any man spoken of it And I beleue that there wyll bee founde none other resolution but onely the wil of hym that made the playe of whome there are dyuers opinions Some saye that it was Yerses and yet the Spaniardes do retaine the name Aredres albeit corrupted by the mutation of s into d set before r. Other some saye that they were two brethren The one named â—idie and the other Tirrhene who beinge afflicted with great hunger and famine did inuent this playe to the ende that in playinge of it they mighte employe their spirites so behementlye that they myghte more easely passe the faminall affliction And in deede they passed the tyme so well that they made but three meales in twoo dayes Generall rules YOU muste playe no caste or draughte in vayne if it be not for necessitie You muste make not faulte You must
paune as farre as he may goe and if he playe that of his queene also as farre as he maye thou shalt playe the paune of thy queenes bishoppe as farre as he maye go and if he take it playe thy kings paune as farre as he maye go he wil play then the paune of hys queenes knight as farre as he maye for to saue his other paune thou shalte playe the paune of thy queenes Rooke two steppes and if he take it with his paune thou shalte take his other paune with thy kinges Bishoppe afterwarde he shal take of force that knightes paune in playing thy queenes Knight into the thyrde house of thy Bishoppe of the same syde Because that thou shalt haue three pieces prepared vp on him against the whiche he can haue no remedie but to his losse and confusion But if he take not thy rooks paune but playe the Paune of his quenes Bishoppe one steppe thou shalte take his Paune with that of thy Rooke and he wil take thine with that of his Bishoppe Then shalte thou playe y e Paune of thy queenes knight one steppe and if he take it thou shalt take with thy kings bishop his knightes paune and shalt saye checke of the which he wyll couer it with his quenes bishop and with thy Queene thou shalte take his other Paune And if he take thy bishop with his thou shalt take his with thy quene and shalte saye checke and yf he couer it with his queene it wyll bee no greate daunger to spoyle them bothe to together because that the Paune of hys queenes Rooke beinge without companye shall loose him selfe of force yf thou prepare thither thy Knighte or thy Bishoppe But if with his Bishoppe he take not thyne but playe his queenes Knight to the thyrde house of hys Bishoppe for to take thy queenes Paune thou shalt playe thy queenes Bishoppe to the thyrde house of the Kinge and if he playe hys queenes Rooke in the seate of the Knight then remoue thy Queene out of the discouerye to the fourth house of thy queenes Rooke and if he set hys Queene in the thyrde house of his Knight thou shalte remoue thy queenes Knighte to the thyrde house of the Bishoppe This done thy Bishoppe shall kill his Knighte and his Queene shall put to deathe thy Bishoppe then thy Queene shall take his Rookes Paune who wyll sette hym selfe out of the waye for feare of feeling the heauye strookes of thy queene and in so doing suffereth his Kyng to fall into checke yet for some other considerations y t which for to withstande thou shalt remoue thy kynges Knighte into the seconde house of thy King and then shalt y u serue thee of thy Rookes in loosynge the one for to wynne the other and in so doynge thou shalte not fayle to surmounte The .iiii. Chapter How he ought to playe to whom is geuen the aduauntage of a Paune VVHEN the aduantage of a Paune is geuen it is the custome to take awaye that of the kinges Bishoppe because that it is the best then if thy contrarye partie play his kings Paune as far as he maye thou shalte playe also that of thy King as farre as he may goe he wyll remoue hys kynges Knighte to the thirde house of hys Bishoppe and thou shalt playe the Paune of thy kinges Bishoppe as farre as he maye goe And if he take thy kinges Paune with his knighte thou shalte geue him checke with thy Queene causinge her to remoue into the fourth house of his kings Rooke and if he couer it with the paune of y e kings Knight thou shalt take his kinges Paune w t thy Queene shalt saye checke whereof he wyll couer it with his Queene and thyne shall take his kinges Rooke And if he geue thee checke by the discouerye of his Knight whiche he wyll cause to remoue into the third house of his kinges Knighte thou shalt couer it with thy kinges Bishoppe setting him in the seconde house of thy King And if with his Knighte be take thy Rooke thou shalte playe thy Queene to the fourth house of his Kinge Then of force he wyll take her from thee with his the whiche thou shalte also take with thy bishops Paune and hys Knighte can not saue hym selfe so shall he loose the game for thou haste the greater aduauntage if thou canst keepe it well But if in steede of taking thy Kinges paune with his knight he take the Paune of thy kinges Bishoppe with his kinges Paune thou shalt playe thy queenes Paune as farre as he maye goe If he take thy Kinges Paune with his Knight thou shalt geue him the check of thy quene here aboue mencioned settynge thy Queene in y e fourth house of his kings Rooke for to take his Rooke if he couer it with the knightes Paune if not if his King march forth into his seconde house thou shalte geue hym checke with thy queene which shal com into y e fourth place of his king who in retyring him self to y e second of his knight for to escape from the check shall of force lose his knight And if he giue thee not check by the discouerie of his knight as I haue tolde thee beinge the playe according to y e second table of this chapter but geue the checke with hys Queene in the fourth house of thy kinges Rooke thou shalte remoue thy King into y e seate of thy quene And if he geue thee not checke with his Knight at the seconde house of thy kinges Bishoppe thou shalte sette thy King in his second house And if he take thy Rooke y u shalt geue him checke with thy Queens in the fourth place of his Kinge From thence forthe he shall loose for his Knight can not escape withoute beinge taken So shalte thou haue the aduauntage And if after y t thou hast played thy queenes Paune according as it is in the fourthe table he take not with his Knight thy kings paune but playe the Paune of his kinges Knight as farre as he maye goe for to succour hys other Paune whiche is within the barres of thy campe thou shalt playe thy kinges Paune one steppe for to take his Knight whome to meete he will set his Queene before thy King for if thou wouldest thinke to take his Knight with thy Paune thy King shoulde be in checke Wherefore thou shalt set also thy Queene one roume before thy King and he wil remoue his Knighte to the fourth house of his Queene whiche is the best draughte that he coulde make And thou shalte playe the Paune of thy Queenes bishoppe as farre as he maye that is to witte aboue his Knight and if he geue checke with hys Queene at the fourth house of thy queenes Knight Thou shalte remoue thy Kinge to the seconde house of thy kinges bishoppe then he shalbe forced to saue his Knight in the second house of his King And thou shalte geue him checke with thy Queene in the fourthe