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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Page iii
... reasons why I should have dedicated to you the following chapters on Chess . In the first place , you have , each of you , done the Good Cause , " some yeoman service , " and , if I well recollect , you have promised to do something ...
... reasons why I should have dedicated to you the following chapters on Chess . In the first place , you have , each of you , done the Good Cause , " some yeoman service , " and , if I well recollect , you have promised to do something ...
Page iv
... reasons , I have been unable to procure any reliable de- scription of the game as now played in the Japanese Empire , which , for more than two centuries , has been closed against all good Christians . I may say the same respecting the ...
... reasons , I have been unable to procure any reliable de- scription of the game as now played in the Japanese Empire , which , for more than two centuries , has been closed against all good Christians . I may say the same respecting the ...
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... reason why many important matters remain in obscurity and doubt is , that nobody has adopted the proper means for having them cleared up . " This judicious remark on the part of the philosophic standard - bearer , appears to me to be ...
... reason why many important matters remain in obscurity and doubt is , that nobody has adopted the proper means for having them cleared up . " This judicious remark on the part of the philosophic standard - bearer , appears to me to be ...
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... reason why ships are admitted into the game , as being matters of the utmost importance in such an expedition as this , which bears no remote resemblance to that of the Greeks against Troy . In short , whether we consider the game to ...
... reason why ships are admitted into the game , as being matters of the utmost importance in such an expedition as this , which bears no remote resemblance to that of the Greeks against Troy . In short , whether we consider the game to ...
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... reason to believe that several others may present themselves in the course of play . Cases of Uncertainty . In the first place , we shall suppose a player on his first throw turns up four ; the text says , in such case , " the Elephant ...
... reason to believe that several others may present themselves in the course of play . Cases of Uncertainty . In the first place , we shall suppose a player on his first throw turns up four ; the text says , in such case , " the Elephant ...
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