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From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes. THE HISTORY OF CHESS , FROM THE TIME OF THE EARLY INVENTION OF THE GAME IN INDIA , TILL THE ...
From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes. THE HISTORY OF CHESS , FROM THE TIME OF THE EARLY INVENTION OF THE GAME IN INDIA , TILL THE ...
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From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes. ΤΟ SIR FREDERIC MADDEN , K.H. , F.R.S. , KEEPER OF THE MSS . IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM , AND TO ...
From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes. ΤΟ SIR FREDERIC MADDEN , K.H. , F.R.S. , KEEPER OF THE MSS . IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM , AND TO ...
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... Invention of Chess in India - according to the Historians of Persia and Arabia • CHAPTER VIII . SHATRANJ CONTINUED - Account of Oriental Manuscript Works on Chess in the British Museum , and in the Library of the Royal Asiatic So- ciety ...
... Invention of Chess in India - according to the Historians of Persia and Arabia • CHAPTER VIII . SHATRANJ CONTINUED - Account of Oriental Manuscript Works on Chess in the British Museum , and in the Library of the Royal Asiatic So- ciety ...
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... invention to so many other coun- tries ? The answer is simple : it resulted from sheer error of judgment on their part , and the causes of such error are worth noticing . In the first place , the Greeks had a rude and primitive game ...
... invention to so many other coun- tries ? The answer is simple : it resulted from sheer error of judgment on their part , and the causes of such error are worth noticing . In the first place , the Greeks had a rude and primitive game ...
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... invention . Finally , they would have found , on a very small degree of reflection , that the pre- sumed antiquity of Chess among the Irish , the Welsh , the Jews , the Araucanians , and all other such enlight- ened and civilized ...
... invention . Finally , they would have found , on a very small degree of reflection , that the pre- sumed antiquity of Chess among the Irish , the Welsh , the Jews , the Araucanians , and all other such enlight- ened and civilized ...
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