Marache's Manual of Chess. Containing a Description of the Board and the Pieces, Chess Notation, Technical Terms with Diagrams Illustrating Them, Relative Value of the Pieces, Laws of the Game, General Observations on the Pieces, Preliminary Games for Beginners, Fifty Openings of Games, Giving All the Latest Discoveries of Modern Masters, with Best Games and Effecting Checkmate. Thirty-six Ingenious Diagram Problems and Sixteen Curious Chess Stratagems. To Which Is Added a Treatise on the Games of Backgammon, Russian Backgammon, and Dominoes.

Original publisher's dark brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. No date, circa 1885. 4 1/2" x 7." 156 pages, complete (except for missing back free endpaper). Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Four additional pages in back advertise other books published by Dick & Fitzgerald. Pages are intact overall but back free endpaper is missing, front free endpaper has a piece missing at top measuring 4" (page's width) x 1 1/4," and there are pencil inscriptions on rest of front free endpaper and moderate age toning throughout. Covers are clean and intact overall but have a spot of discoloration on front, tiny spots of discoloration on back, and slight bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. A Good copy. A handbook on how to play chess and other table games such as backgammon, Russian backgammon, and dominoes. This manual focuses on chess and provides a fairly thorough explanation of the game and possible strategies to use. Authored by N. Marache.