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... evident , then , that these two causes , to which others might be added , have tended to render the history of Chess an inextricable labyrinth . An ordinary writer intending to give a popular lecture on the subject , is compelled , as ...
... evident , then , that these two causes , to which others might be added , have tended to render the history of Chess an inextricable labyrinth . An ordinary writer intending to give a popular lecture on the subject , is compelled , as ...
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... evident from this stanza that the situation called Kākakāshṭa was equivalent to what we call a drawn game : though in the Shatranj as we shall hereafter see , the party so reduced was considered as defeated . 3 The curious situation ...
... evident from this stanza that the situation called Kākakāshṭa was equivalent to what we call a drawn game : though in the Shatranj as we shall hereafter see , the party so reduced was considered as defeated . 3 The curious situation ...
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... the mere result of such slow and gradual improvements as time and cir- cumstances have developed . 2nd . That the Chaturanga was invented by a people whose language was Sanskrit , is evident on the most 32 HISTORY OF CHESS .
... the mere result of such slow and gradual improvements as time and cir- cumstances have developed . 2nd . That the Chaturanga was invented by a people whose language was Sanskrit , is evident on the most 32 HISTORY OF CHESS .
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... evident on the most un- erring etymological grounds , in addition to the direct testimony of the Puranic poems , and also that of all the old writers of Arabia and Persia who have in any way alluded to the subject ; consequently , that ...
... evident on the most un- erring etymological grounds , in addition to the direct testimony of the Puranic poems , and also that of all the old writers of Arabia and Persia who have in any way alluded to the subject ; consequently , that ...
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... evident the Chaturanga might have been , and frequently was , played by only one person on each side , and that , too , from beginning to end . Of this fact we have a noted instance in the case of Yudhishthira ( as stated in Chapter II ...
... evident the Chaturanga might have been , and frequently was , played by only one person on each side , and that , too , from beginning to end . Of this fact we have a noted instance in the case of Yudhishthira ( as stated in Chapter II ...
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