player moves directly across, and never to the corners, whether in going or returning; and if he move laterally from the other side, and take some piece, he becomes a thief.
The second piece is Alphinus (94), which passes over three points. For in its proper place, that which is black is fixed to the right of the king, with the white on his left; and they are not called white and black with respect to their colour, but to their situation. Because the black piece proceeding toward the right, that is, into the black and void space, is stationed before the Husbandman. But the left, by its own power, moves two points, the one towards the white space on the right; and the other, towards the white and void space on the left. Thus also of the third piece to the third square, by preserving its proper situation on the board; so that if it be black, to black, and the contrary—proceeding in an angular direction.
The third kind is of knights, of whom the right is white, and the left black. The white has three moves; one towards the right in the black place before the Husbandman; the
