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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... sage Vyasa , the Nestor of the day , for the benefit of his instructions on a subject so well adapted to his own peculiar disposition ; for the youthful warrior , like a certain eminent military veteran of recent times , was strongly ...
... sage Vyasa , the Nestor of the day , for the benefit of his instructions on a subject so well adapted to his own peculiar disposition ; for the youthful warrior , like a certain eminent military veteran of recent times , was strongly ...
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... sage Vrihadasva re- lates to him the story of Nala , an ancient Hindū prince , who , in his day , had been similarly situated , and who , after undergoing many toils and miseries at last recovered his kingdom . Nala owed all his ...
... sage Vrihadasva re- lates to him the story of Nala , an ancient Hindū prince , who , in his day , had been similarly situated , and who , after undergoing many toils and miseries at last recovered his kingdom . Nala owed all his ...
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... sage Gotama.3 Should 2 We shall afterwards see , when treating of the Shatranj , or medieval game of Chess , that the powers and value of the Rook , Knight and Bishop , which remained the same as in the ancient Chaturanga , were to one ...
... sage Gotama.3 Should 2 We shall afterwards see , when treating of the Shatranj , or medieval game of Chess , that the powers and value of the Rook , Knight and Bishop , which remained the same as in the ancient Chaturanga , were to one ...
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... sage in precocity . A very amusing account of the eminent French player's débût in Chess is given in the Chess Player's Chronicle , 1848 , p . 87 , translated from the " Palamède . ” For my own part I am no main believer in the ...
... sage in precocity . A very amusing account of the eminent French player's débût in Chess is given in the Chess Player's Chronicle , 1848 , p . 87 , translated from the " Palamède . ” For my own part I am no main believer in the ...
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... sage counsellor pointed out to them how the board of sixty - four squares represented a battle - field , and thus he proceeded to draw up in battle array the ebony and ivory forces . " I would , with due submission , just hint as a ...
... sage counsellor pointed out to them how the board of sixty - four squares represented a battle - field , and thus he proceeded to draw up in battle array the ebony and ivory forces . " I would , with due submission , just hint as a ...
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