exception that castling was not permitted. The game started with each player being given his part of the board and his pieces. Then each player placed his pieces on his part of the board in any position that was permitted by the rules and – this is a vital point
– in secrecy from his opponent. After that the two parts of the board were put together and the game began.
The official version of events was that the winner of the game won the quarrel and the loser of the game lost the quarrel. That was how the Directors had succeeded in eliminating