ACTIUS, Thomas. De Ludo Schacchorum in legali methodo tractatus, Pesaro, apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1583, 4°, FIRST EDITION, publisher's device on title, wooodcut portrait of the author on +3 recto, with final errata leaf (burn-hole in title slightly affecting device, some spotting and browning), modern vellum. [VDL Geschichte II, p. 421; Schachlitteratur 55; KB 4137; Brunet I, 44]

II. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHESS THEORY From Damiano to Stamma

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ACTIUS, Thomas. De Ludo Schacchorum in legali methodo tractatus, Pesaro, apud Hieronymum Concordiam, 1583, 4°, FIRST EDITION, publisher's device on title, wooodcut portrait of the author on +3 recto, with final errata leaf (burn-hole in title slightly affecting device, some spotting and browning), modern vellum. [VDL Geschichte II, p. 421; Schachlitteratur 55; KB 4137; Brunet I, 44]

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The Italian lawyer, Thomas Actius, made it "a rule of courtesy that a player should warn his opponent of the fact whenever he attacked his Queen with a piece other than the Queen. This custom does not appear to have crystallised into law in Italy, Spain or France" (Murray, p. 389).
Illustrated.