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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... edition , 8vo . 1801 , page 189 , & c . 2 " Archæologia , " 4to . London , vol . xi . page 397 , & c . 3 c Archæologia , " & c . , & c . , vol . xxiv . page 203 , & c . if any one were to assert , as some shallow 20 HISTORY OF CHESS .
... edition , 8vo . 1801 , page 189 , & c . 2 " Archæologia , " 4to . London , vol . xi . page 397 , & c . 3 c Archæologia , " & c . , & c . , vol . xxiv . page 203 , & c . if any one were to assert , as some shallow 20 HISTORY OF CHESS .
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... assert , as some shallow - brained visionaries do , in the case of Chess , that printing origi- nated among the Scythian shepherds or the Arabs of the desert , the idea would at once be scouted by all people of sense . Precisely in like ...
... assert , as some shallow - brained visionaries do , in the case of Chess , that printing origi- nated among the Scythian shepherds or the Arabs of the desert , the idea would at once be scouted by all people of sense . Precisely in like ...
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... assertions ; a course altogether unusual if not inadmissible in newspaper writings . Soon after the above paragraph was printed a query appeared in that world - wide paper on this subject , which I shall here insert , together with my ...
... assertions ; a course altogether unusual if not inadmissible in newspaper writings . Soon after the above paragraph was printed a query appeared in that world - wide paper on this subject , which I shall here insert , together with my ...
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... Arabs ? I do not assert this as a fact , for I have no historical evidence to bear me out ; I therefore throw out the hint as a bare possibility . but that he has either falsified or forged them we 48 HISTORY OF CHESS .
... Arabs ? I do not assert this as a fact , for I have no historical evidence to bear me out ; I therefore throw out the hint as a bare possibility . but that he has either falsified or forged them we 48 HISTORY OF CHESS .
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... assertion respecting the penetration and wisdom of Buzurjmihr . Yet it is not quite so absurd as Sir William Jones's idea , " that some great genius conceived in his mind the construction of the board , and the various moves and powers ...
... assertion respecting the penetration and wisdom of Buzurjmihr . Yet it is not quite so absurd as Sir William Jones's idea , " that some great genius conceived in his mind the construction of the board , and the various moves and powers ...
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