The History of Chess: From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe |
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... IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE . BY DUNCAN FORBES , LL.D. , PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON . LONDON : WM . H. ALLEN & Co. , 7 , LEADENHALL STREET . 1860 . LEWIS AND SON , PRINTERS , 21 , FINCH LANE.
... IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE . BY DUNCAN FORBES , LL.D. , PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON . LONDON : WM . H. ALLEN & Co. , 7 , LEADENHALL STREET . 1860 . LEWIS AND SON , PRINTERS , 21 , FINCH LANE.
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... Oriental Chess ( chapters XVI . & XVII . ) , you will perceive that there still remain some blanks to be filled up . For obvious reasons , I have been unable to procure any reliable de- scription of the game as now played in the ...
... Oriental Chess ( chapters XVI . & XVII . ) , you will perceive that there still remain some blanks to be filled up . For obvious reasons , I have been unable to procure any reliable de- scription of the game as now played in the ...
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... Oriental words and phrases in the following work . I have adopted the admirable system propounded nearly eighty years ago , by the eminent Sir William Jones , viz.- 66 pronounce the vowels as in German or Italian , and the consonants ...
... Oriental words and phrases in the following work . I have adopted the admirable system propounded nearly eighty years ago , by the eminent Sir William Jones , viz.- 66 pronounce the vowels as in German or Italian , and the consonants ...
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... Oriental words and phrases , I have been enabled alto- gether to discard Asiatic characters from my work . To the Oriental scholar , such characters would be su- perfluous to the non - Oriental , useless . Besides , I am not the least ...
... Oriental words and phrases , I have been enabled alto- gether to discard Asiatic characters from my work . To the Oriental scholar , such characters would be su- perfluous to the non - Oriental , useless . Besides , I am not the least ...
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... Oriental Manuscript Works on Chess in the British Museum , and in the Library of the Royal Asiatic So- ciety , & c . - Oriental Problems by the Caliph Mu'tasīm Billāh and ' Ali Shatranji CHAPTER IX . SHATRANJ CONTINUED - Theory and ...
... Oriental Manuscript Works on Chess in the British Museum , and in the Library of the Royal Asiatic So- ciety , & c . - Oriental Problems by the Caliph Mu'tasīm Billāh and ' Ali Shatranji CHAPTER IX . SHATRANJ CONTINUED - Theory and ...
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