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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... never laid any claim to the honour . For ex- ample one man writes a quarto 2 - to prove that Chess was invented by the Scythian shepherds , nobody knows how long ago ; and that , in the course of time , this game was communicated to ...
... never laid any claim to the honour . For ex- ample one man writes a quarto 2 - to prove that Chess was invented by the Scythian shepherds , nobody knows how long ago ; and that , in the course of time , this game was communicated to ...
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... never heard of in Oriental Chess ; and even if she were , the piece so called by us was one of the weakest on the board , even in Europe , till the begin- ning of the sixteenth century , as may be seen in any of the old writings on the ...
... never heard of in Oriental Chess ; and even if she were , the piece so called by us was one of the weakest on the board , even in Europe , till the begin- ning of the sixteenth century , as may be seen in any of the old writings on the ...
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... never been undertaken by a person who happened to know something of Chess and of Oriental languages at the same time . Hyde , for example , commits several mistakes , owing to his ignorance of Chess . Sir William Jones also fails both ...
... never been undertaken by a person who happened to know something of Chess and of Oriental languages at the same time . Hyde , for example , commits several mistakes , owing to his ignorance of Chess . Sir William Jones also fails both ...
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... never let a player place his Elephant in front ( en prise ) of a hostile Elephant ; if any man of sense should do so , he will be deemed guilty of imprudence . Only in those cases where there is no other resource should a player place ...
... never let a player place his Elephant in front ( en prise ) of a hostile Elephant ; if any man of sense should do so , he will be deemed guilty of imprudence . Only in those cases where there is no other resource should a player place ...
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... never had any place in either of the Oriental games , whether Chaturanga or Shatranj , act the part of Kings . As to the die , nothing can be easier ; any ivory turner may make it by slightly rounding the two faces of the common cubic ...
... never had any place in either of the Oriental games , whether Chaturanga or Shatranj , act the part of Kings . As to the die , nothing can be easier ; any ivory turner may make it by slightly rounding the two faces of the common cubic ...
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