As stated on page 182, the rules are few and simple. The explanations and remarks are in brackets. 1. The board is to be so placed as that the double corner is at the right hand of the player. [Some play on the white, and some on the black squares. For convenience of numbering the board and recording the moves, the white squares are now generally adopted.] 2. The choice of colour is determined by lot, and the men on either side are placed on the alternate squares in three lines immediately in front of the player. [The black or the white squares, as may be decided before starting.] 3. Black has the first move, and the men are changed with each game. [Thus giving in turn the first move to each player.] 4. The player who touches a man, except for the purpose of adjusting it, must move that man, if it can be legally moved. 5. A piece moved over the angle of a square must be moved to that square. [This is a newly-adopted law, to prevent the undecided mode of moving backward and forward adopted by some players.] 6. A man _en prise_ must be taken if intimation be given by the player offering it. If by accident it is left untaken, the piece which should have taken it may be huffed. [It is at the option of the adversary to huff or let the offending piece remain.] 7. The player cannot stand the huff, when he is told to take a man, or men. 8. The huff is not a move; and after taking off the huffed piece, the player moves. [Thus ‘huff and move’ is a well-understood direction.] 9. A player taking one piece only when two or more can be legally taken, may be huffed on the completion of his move. 10. When a piece is _en prise_ it must be taken within a minute. [This is to prevent the delay in which some indulge.] 11. Five minutes is the limit of time for considering a move. The penalty for exceeding the time allowed is loss of the game. [This law applies more particularly to match games.] 12. A piece abandoned is a completed move. [In all games this law should be observed, as nothing is so annoying to an opponent as to be asked to allow a move to be amended.] 13. A false or illegal move must be rectified, or the game resigned; such move may be allowed to remain, at the option of the adversary. [By a false move is meant the moving backward, or sideways, or on to the wrong-colour square.] 14. If a player in the act of taking remove one of his own men from the board, it cannot be replaced, except by consent of the opponent. 15. When three or more kings are opposed to a weaker force, the game must, when the opponent gives notice to count, be won within forty moves, or abandoned as drawn. 16. When two kings are opposed to one, the game is to be declared drawn, unless the player with the stronger force win in twenty moves. [From any part of the board two kings can win against one in fifteen or sixteen moves.]