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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... invented in India , and thence introduced into Persia and other Asiatic regions during the sixth century of our era . This view has been adopted , solely on its own in- trinsic merits , by Mr. Francis Douce2 and Sir Frederic Madden , in ...
... invented in India , and thence introduced into Persia and other Asiatic regions during the sixth century of our era . This view has been adopted , solely on its own in- trinsic merits , by Mr. Francis Douce2 and Sir Frederic Madden , in ...
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... invented in India , but not a single reliable scrap tending to prove that it was either invented or known in any other country previously . It may be asked , then - how came so many writers to ascribe the invention to so many other coun ...
... invented in India , but not a single reliable scrap tending to prove that it was either invented or known in any other country previously . It may be asked , then - how came so many writers to ascribe the invention to so many other coun ...
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... invented by the Scythian shepherds , nobody knows how long ago ; and that , in the course of time , this game was communicated to Palamedes , at the siege of Troy , who quietly took to himself the honour of the invention . All this is ...
... invented by the Scythian shepherds , nobody knows how long ago ; and that , in the course of time , this game was communicated to Palamedes , at the siege of Troy , who quietly took to himself the honour of the invention . All this is ...
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... invented either at Babylon or Palmyra - I forget which - because the queen has such great power in the game . This is the greatest dreamer of the whole host . He evidently did not know that the word Queen was never heard of in Oriental ...
... invented either at Babylon or Palmyra - I forget which - because the queen has such great power in the game . This is the greatest dreamer of the whole host . He evidently did not know that the word Queen was never heard of in Oriental ...
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... invented in India . The board consisted then , as it does now , of sixty - four squares . The game was played by four persons , each having a King , a Rook , a Knight , and , lastly , a Bishop ( then represented by a Ship , ) together ...
... invented in India . The board consisted then , as it does now , of sixty - four squares . The game was played by four persons , each having a King , a Rook , a Knight , and , lastly , a Bishop ( then represented by a Ship , ) together ...
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