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... existed long before that modification of it called Shatranj , or the medieval game . 4th . That the Chaturanga is the most ancient game , not only of Chess , but of anything approaching the nature of Chess , of which any account has ...
... existed long before that modification of it called Shatranj , or the medieval game . 4th . That the Chaturanga is the most ancient game , not only of Chess , but of anything approaching the nature of Chess , of which any account has ...
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... existed in India , some thousands of years previously ; and we have every reason to believe that the " invention of Chess , " alluded to by the Arabs and Persians , simply meant the final establishment of that modification of the ...
... existed in India , some thousands of years previously ; and we have every reason to believe that the " invention of Chess , " alluded to by the Arabs and Persians , simply meant the final establishment of that modification of the ...
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... existed for cen- turies after the time of Naushirawan . I shall henceforth , for the sake of distinctness , continue to use the term Chaturanga for the ancient game of the Purānas , and Shatranj for the mediaval game ; but the reader ...
... existed for cen- turies after the time of Naushirawan . I shall henceforth , for the sake of distinctness , continue to use the term Chaturanga for the ancient game of the Purānas , and Shatranj for the mediaval game ; but the reader ...
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... existed in India from the time of Pandu and his five sons down to the reign of our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria ( who now rules over those same Eastern realms ) —that is , for a period of five thousand years ; and that this very ...
... existed in India from the time of Pandu and his five sons down to the reign of our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria ( who now rules over those same Eastern realms ) —that is , for a period of five thousand years ; and that this very ...
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... existed such a close intercourse be- tween the two courts , may not the game have reached Byzantium even before it found its way among the roving Arabs ? I do not assert this as a fact , for I have no historical evidence to bear me out ...
... existed such a close intercourse be- tween the two courts , may not the game have reached Byzantium even before it found its way among the roving Arabs ? I do not assert this as a fact , for I have no historical evidence to bear me out ...
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