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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... alluding to Chess , " Latrunculorum ludus inventus est à duce ( quodam ) ut , cum miles , intolerabile fame laboraret ... alluded to has nothing whatever to do with Chess ; and this is the way by which errors arise and spread . 2 " An ...
... alluding to Chess , " Latrunculorum ludus inventus est à duce ( quodam ) ut , cum miles , intolerabile fame laboraret ... alluded to has nothing whatever to do with Chess ; and this is the way by which errors arise and spread . 2 " An ...
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... mentioned in the " Laws of the Howel Da , " & c . , that is , if it be Chess which is there alluded to , a point on which the learned of Cambria by no means agree , Welsh , the Araucanians , ' the Jews , the HISTORY OF CHESS . ة.
... mentioned in the " Laws of the Howel Da , " & c . , that is , if it be Chess which is there alluded to , a point on which the learned of Cambria by no means agree , Welsh , the Araucanians , ' the Jews , the HISTORY OF CHESS . ة.
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... alluded to . Akbar had , in his young days , placed under the care of a learned Brahman , a very promising Muslim boy named Faizī , giving out that this youth was the son of a Hindu of high rank who had been killed in battle . The ...
... alluded to . Akbar had , in his young days , placed under the care of a learned Brahman , a very promising Muslim boy named Faizī , giving out that this youth was the son of a Hindu of high rank who had been killed in battle . The ...
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... the text , with very slight variations , is iden- tical , and evidently taken from the same original , viz . , that alluded to by Sir William Jones as an abstract from the " Bhavishya Purana , " ( vide " Asiatic HISTORY OF CHESS . 13.
... the text , with very slight variations , is iden- tical , and evidently taken from the same original , viz . , that alluded to by Sir William Jones as an abstract from the " Bhavishya Purana , " ( vide " Asiatic HISTORY OF CHESS . 13.
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... alluded to is an oblong , four - sided one , used by the natives of India to this day in some of their own peculiar games , such as the game of Chaupar , in which , according to Abu - l - Fazl's description in the " Ayīni Akbarī ” the ...
... alluded to is an oblong , four - sided one , used by the natives of India to this day in some of their own peculiar games , such as the game of Chaupar , in which , according to Abu - l - Fazl's description in the " Ayīni Akbarī ” the ...
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