Note 14 — THE PIECES

Under the scheme that advances the pawn to the rank of the piece whose square he gets into, it happens that when his player has not lost a piece of that identical quality, the only reward of the pawn is to stand exposed to incessant attacks, without the power of retreating in any direction:—To have both the bishops of a set moving on the same colour, an anomaly which will seldom occur, and which the other is just as liable to induce, is the only one that can result from this scheme.