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Chess rules
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It's funny how interested I am in the history of chess, when I couldn't care less at first. This reminds me of the 64 commandments (I was forced to study) 
by Bruce Pandolfini. This is the best link I found:
http://www.howtoadvice.com/Chess
I am thinking this originated from Mr. Damiano
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The Portuguese player form Odemisa, Pedro Damiano the apothecary, first published his work, with the lyrical title, Libro da imparare giocare a Scacchi, et de belissimi partiti, reuisti, e recoretti, con summa diligentia da molti famosissimi giu oca tori emendata, a quatro of 62 unnumbered folios, on August 21, 1518.
While Damiano was really no great shakes as a player, and only so-so as an author, he did try to pump in some guidelines for better play:
1. No move should be made without a definite object, if possible.
2. Oversights should not be committed.
3. You should not play quickly.
4. If you have a good move, look out whether there is not a still better one.
5. He who receives odds should force exchanges, provided he suffers no loss in doing so.
6. If you have a winning advantage, you should not let your game become disordered, or expose your King in order to gain an extra Pawn.
7. It is especially desirable to place the King in safety by means of a leap to a good square.
8. The two pawns in front of the King after his leap should not be moved except in case of urgent necessity, for a game is often lost owing to the Rook's or Knight's pawn being advnced a square, whereby the adverse King is able to enter.
9. It is advisable to play out the pieces and not to crowd them. You should endeavor to maintain the two pawns in front of the King and Queen at their fourth squares and also, if possible, those in front of the Bishops.