Chess Made Easy

Title Page:

Chess Made Easy:
New and Comprehensive Rules
for playing
The Game of Chess

With Examples from
Philidor, Cunningham, &c., &c.

To Which Is Prefixed
A Pleasing Account of Its Origin
Some
Interesting Anecdotes
Of Several
Exalted Personages
Who Have Been Admired of It;
And the Morals of Chess

Written by the Ingenious and Learned
Benjamin Franklin

A New Edition – Revised and Corrected

This game an Indian Brahman did invent,
The force of Eastern wisdom to express;
From thence the same to busy Europe sent...