Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3,340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1,200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wylie, Barker and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original, instead of the usual well-worn book play.

Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.

Spayth's American Draught Player; or the Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game — Full instructions — Draught Board Numbered — Names of the Games, and how formed — The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams — Playing Tables for Draught Clubs — New Systems of Numbering the Board — Prefixing signs to the Variations — List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged.

Dunne's Draughts-Player's Guide and Companion. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, Match Games, the Losing Game, and Problems, with their Solutions. Also the Spanish, Italian, Polish and Turkish varieties of the game.

Spayth's Draughts or Checkers for Beginners. This treatise was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far the most complete and instructive elementary work on Draughts ever published. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams of ingenious stratagems, curious positions and perplexing Problems and contains a great variety of interesting and instructive Games, progressively arranged and clearly explained with notes, so that the learner may easily comprehend them. With the aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a proficient in the game.

Scattergood's Game of Draughts, or Checkers Simplified and Explained. With practical Diagrams and Illustrations, together with a Checker-Board, numbered and printed in red. Containing the Eighteen Standard Games, with over 200 of the best variations selected from various authors, with some never before published. By D. Scattergood.