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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2 It would seem , at first sight , that this is a mere repetition of the last sentence ; but such is not the case : the former sentence would have remained vague and indefinite without the latter . " If , on throwing the die , ' the IV.
... such is the decree of the sage Gotama.3 Should 1 We shall afterwards see , when treating of the Shatranj , or medieval game of Chess , that the powers and value of the Rook , Knight and Bishop , which remained the same as in the ...
1 Hence it must have occasionally happened , that only one player on each side remained , to conduct the whole allied forces , and this result very naturally gave rise to the mediæval game of Shatranj , of which more hereafter . " 4.
... and although sundry minute points have necessarily remained unexplained , yet the account , on the whole , is far more satisfactory than that of any of the Grecian and Roman games of a sedentary nature that has come down to us .
It must , therefore , have often happened , that , after some twenty or thirty moves , the contest remained to be concluded between two players only ; and this circumstance of itself was sufficient to have given rise to the mediæval ...
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This is a lovely 1860 book with a normal chess diagram on the back hard cover and the chaturanga 4 team diagram on the front.The coloured chaturanga layout next to the title page has a yellow set in the top LH, a black set in the top RH, a green set in the bottom LH and a red set on the bottom RH. If you buy a later edition it will not have the coloured diagram and it will be difficult to work out play from page 16 onwards.There is a good black & white chaturanga diagram on page 39 which will help.
The book has all the creation histories and p.15 where Forbes suggests the game was from India 3000 years before our era resulted in some contrary views. It has 60 pages of Appendices and covers all viewpoints to 1860 thoroughly. He believed India to be the birthplace of chess but gives much information on Chinese chess which became topical when David Li's book'The Genealogy of Chess' appeared in 1998. Most historians still think the game came from India but Mr. Li makes a strong case for China.
The 1860 copy has 18 chapters and 6 Appendices in its 372 pages and is on good paper, well printed with large lettering.Forbes (1798-1868) was a Scots Professor of Oriental Languages at Kings College London..Bob Meadley
This is a very informative book and provides great insight into how chess came to be.
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