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Following the meal Dejah Thoris and The Warlord played at jetan, the Barsooame of chess, which is played upon a board of a hundred alternate black and orange squares One player has twenty black pieces, the other, twenty orange pieces A brief description of the game may interest those Earth readers who care for chess, and will not be lost upon those who pursue this narrative to its conclusion, since before they are done they will find that a knowledge of jetan will add to the interest and the thrills that are in store for them

The men are placed upon the board as in chess upon the first ts next the players In order froht on the line of squares nearest the players, the jetan pieces are Warrior, Padwar, Dwar, Flier, Chief, Princess, Flier, Dwar, Padwar, Warrior In the next line all are Panthans except the end pieces, which are called Thoats, and represent mounted warriors

The Panthans, which are represented as warriors with one feather, may move one space in any direction except backward; the Thoats, ht and one diagonal, andpieces; Warriors, foot soldiers with two feathers, straight in any direction, or diagonally, two spaces; Padwars, lieutenants wearing two feathers, two diagonal in any direction, or co three feathers, three spaces straight in any direction, or combination; Fliers, represented by a propellor with three blades, three spaces in any direction, or co pieces; the Chief, indicated by a diadeht, or diagonal; Princess, diade pieces

The game is hen a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief It is drahen a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief; or when both sides have been reduced to three pieces, or less, of equal value, and the ga ten aa when Tara of Heliu to her own quarters and her sleeping silks and furs "Until , my beloved," she called back to theuess, nor her parents, that this ht indeed be the last time that they would ever set eyes upon her