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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... Charlemagne's Chess- men , of which more hereafter . We have only to add further , that Mr. Douce attributes the invention of Chess to the Hindūs , a conclusion at which every unprejudiced mind must arrive after perusing the writings of ...
... Charlemagne's Chess- men , of which more hereafter . We have only to add further , that Mr. Douce attributes the invention of Chess to the Hindūs , a conclusion at which every unprejudiced mind must arrive after perusing the writings of ...
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... Charlemagne . Charles Martel , on the death of Eudes , in 735 , annexed to his own dominions the dukedom of Acquitaine as far as the Pyrenees . I think , then , the inference which I have here drawn , is quite satisfactory viz . , that ...
... Charlemagne . Charles Martel , on the death of Eudes , in 735 , annexed to his own dominions the dukedom of Acquitaine as far as the Pyrenees . I think , then , the inference which I have here drawn , is quite satisfactory viz . , that ...
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... Charlemagne at least ; hence the terms Ferzia and Regina are used as synonymous in our early Latin manuscripts , such for instance as that quoted by Hyde ( p . 179 ) , said to be as old as the time of the Anglo - Saxons . It is highly ...
... Charlemagne at least ; hence the terms Ferzia and Regina are used as synonymous in our early Latin manuscripts , such for instance as that quoted by Hyde ( p . 179 ) , said to be as old as the time of the Anglo - Saxons . It is highly ...
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... Charlemagne . This is remarkably the case in the romance of Guerin de Mont- glave , which turns wholly upon a game of Chess , at which Charlemagne had lost his kingdom to Guerin . The short dialogue which preceded this game , on which ...
... Charlemagne . This is remarkably the case in the romance of Guerin de Mont- glave , which turns wholly upon a game of Chess , at which Charlemagne had lost his kingdom to Guerin . The short dialogue which preceded this game , on which ...
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... Charlemagne , who fancied himself to be strong at Chess . We play forthwith - I win his kingdom - he falls a - laughing at it ; but I swear by St. Martin , and all the Saints of Aquitain , that he must needs pay me by some sort of ...
... Charlemagne , who fancied himself to be strong at Chess . We play forthwith - I win his kingdom - he falls a - laughing at it ; but I swear by St. Martin , and all the Saints of Aquitain , that he must needs pay me by some sort of ...
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