An explanation of the basic rules and strategy of chess is contained in this book, along with a catalog of opening positions and a selection of chess problems for study.

Divided into chapters on ball and bean bag games, quiet games and singing games, this illustrated volume suggests that all parents and teachers provide their children with games that have "plans and purposes." The reader is provided with a list of materials and instructions for each game in addition to suggestions about where each may be played.

Including over 30 rhyming games, 20 songs, humorous facts and jokes, familiar sayings and favorite stories like Blue Beard, Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Jack the Giant Killer, this 1904 volume boasts to provide hours upon hours of fun for children and adults alike.

This book collects many chess problems to help players improve their game.

This book contains 200 chess problems, including several award-winning ones, to help players improve their game.

This book provides an in-depth look at chess strategy. The book's author analyzes the game from a military perspective and encourages the use of the game to teach military tactics and principles.

This book contains a comprehensive overview of the rules of the game in regards to competitive play.

This rulebook for beginners is accompanied by many illustrations.

While the blackletter type is not easy for modern eyes to read, this 1474 book was one of the first works to be printed in English. Caxton includes a translation of Jacobus de Cessolis’ 13th-century political treatise "The Book of the Morals of Men and the Duties of Nobles and Commoners, on the Game of Chess." The title is deceiving, however: this book contains no board diagrams or instructions for play. Instead, the text uses chess as a metaphor...

This 1816 volume is an illustrated history of the origin of playing cards.