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... Force - End Games Drawn by Force - Diagram of Battle Array - Six Problems illustrative of End Games Won or Drawn , per force 106 · CHAPTER XI . Enlargement of the Indian or Primeval Chess Board - Various Altera- tions in its Form , and ...
... Force - End Games Drawn by Force - Diagram of Battle Array - Six Problems illustrative of End Games Won or Drawn , per force 106 · CHAPTER XI . Enlargement of the Indian or Primeval Chess Board - Various Altera- tions in its Form , and ...
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... forces have each united on one side of the board , whilst the adversaries have done the same on the other . One of the allied Kings then becomes a subordinate piece , called by the Persians and Arabs Farzin or HISTORY OF CHESS . 7.
... forces have each united on one side of the board , whilst the adversaries have done the same on the other . One of the allied Kings then becomes a subordinate piece , called by the Persians and Arabs Farzin or HISTORY OF CHESS . 7.
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... force . " " C Chaturanga , as a neuter substantive , denotes the " Game of Chess , " which originally represented an image of ancient Hindu warfare ; the mimic forces therein employed being precisely the four species above described ...
... force . " " C Chaturanga , as a neuter substantive , denotes the " Game of Chess , " which originally represented an image of ancient Hindu warfare ; the mimic forces therein employed being precisely the four species above described ...
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... forces , is quite in accordance with the time , place , and circum- stances . The period of the siege of Lanka , according to Hindū authorities , would carry us too far back to meet with the reader's belief ; but , in what we may call ...
... forces , is quite in accordance with the time , place , and circum- stances . The period of the siege of Lanka , according to Hindū authorities , would carry us too far back to meet with the reader's belief ; but , in what we may call ...
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... forces with excessive care , and remember that the King is the most important of all . O Prince , from inattention to the humbler forces , the King himself may fall into disaster . The Ship ( from a central position ) commands only four ...
... forces with excessive care , and remember that the King is the most important of all . O Prince , from inattention to the humbler forces , the King himself may fall into disaster . The Ship ( from a central position ) commands only four ...
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