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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... Hyde and 1 This was written shortly after the death of Professor Wilson of Edinburgh , the Author of the far famed " Noctes Ambrosianæ . " v . Blackwood's magazine . 2 Hyde- " De Ludis Orientalibus , " 12mo . Oxonii , 1694 ; also an ...
... Hyde and 1 This was written shortly after the death of Professor Wilson of Edinburgh , the Author of the far famed " Noctes Ambrosianæ . " v . Blackwood's magazine . 2 Hyde- " De Ludis Orientalibus , " 12mo . Oxonii , 1694 ; also an ...
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... 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 from his then slight acquaintance with 8 HISTORY OF CHESS .
... 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 from his then slight acquaintance with 8 HISTORY OF CHESS .
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... Hyde , from a MS . of the twelfth century , pre- served in the Bodleian , viz . , " Firmum pactum Calvi te- nent , neque sibi noceant , " i.e. , " The Bishops maintain a solid compact not to hurt each other . " Vide Hyde , " De ludis ...
... Hyde , from a MS . of the twelfth century , pre- served in the Bodleian , viz . , " Firmum pactum Calvi te- nent , neque sibi noceant , " i.e. , " The Bishops maintain a solid compact not to hurt each other . " Vide Hyde , " De ludis ...
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... Hyde's work , page 68 , we have a brief account of this game , together with a figure of the board and dice , agreeing on the whole with that of Abu - l - Fazl , save that the dice are marked , one , three , six and four ; the ace being ...
... Hyde's work , page 68 , we have a brief account of this game , together with a figure of the board and dice , agreeing on the whole with that of Abu - l - Fazl , save that the dice are marked , one , three , six and four ; the ace being ...
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... Hyde hath it . Suffice it to say , that the meaning attached to the word by Firdausī is evidently that of " Champion , " Warrior , " par excellence , and in more places than one he uses , instead of “ Rukh , ” what he seems to consider ...
... Hyde hath it . Suffice it to say , that the meaning attached to the word by Firdausī is evidently that of " Champion , " Warrior , " par excellence , and in more places than one he uses , instead of “ Rukh , ” what he seems to consider ...
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