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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... present day , from the points at which I have stopped short , the History of the " most excellent game that the wit of man has yet devised . " I am , Gentlemen , 58 , Burton Crescent , AUGUST , 1860 . Yours sincerely , D. FORBES . TABLE ...
... present day , from the points at which I have stopped short , the History of the " most excellent game that the wit of man has yet devised . " I am , Gentlemen , 58 , Burton Crescent , AUGUST , 1860 . Yours sincerely , D. FORBES . TABLE ...
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... present state of our information respecting the origin and progress of the game of Chess . Modern writers on the subject , with a few distinguished exceptions , merely repeat the puerile legends handed down to us by 7 Carrera , Ruy ...
... present state of our information respecting the origin and progress of the game of Chess . Modern writers on the subject , with a few distinguished exceptions , merely repeat the puerile legends handed down to us by 7 Carrera , Ruy ...
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... present day , than it must have been to Sir William Jones in his time . He had , most probably , a single and imperfect Sanskrit manuscript to work upon ; whereas I have the choice of two printed texts , besides sundry other minor ...
... present day , than it must have been to Sir William Jones in his time . He had , most probably , a single and imperfect Sanskrit manuscript to work upon ; whereas I have the choice of two printed texts , besides sundry other minor ...
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... present . We are , then , inevitably led to infer that the game of Chaturanga was invented . by a people whose language was Sanskrit , which brings the invention home to India ; and further , it is the repre- sentation of a mode of ...
... present . We are , then , inevitably led to infer that the game of Chaturanga was invented . by a people whose language was Sanskrit , which brings the invention home to India ; and further , it is the repre- sentation of a mode of ...
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... we may add , once for all , that the present move of our Queen is not , generally speaking , of older date than three and a half centuries back . General Directions for Play . " " Let each player HISTORY OF CHESS . 19.
... we may add , once for all , that the present move of our Queen is not , generally speaking , of older date than three and a half centuries back . General Directions for Play . " " Let each player HISTORY OF CHESS . 19.
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