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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... ancient times . The ancient Hindu account of the origin of the game is not unlike that of many more modern versions of the same tale . But , as I have already observed , the mere occasion of its invention is a point of little or no real ...
... ancient times . The ancient Hindu account of the origin of the game is not unlike that of many more modern versions of the same tale . But , as I have already observed , the mere occasion of its invention is a point of little or no real ...
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... ancient game to which we have yet obtained access , is to be found in the Sanskrit Encyclopædia , entitled " Shabda - Kalpa- Druma , " published at Calcutta in seven volumes , 4to , within the last twenty years ( vide vol . i . , under ...
... ancient game to which we have yet obtained access , is to be found in the Sanskrit Encyclopædia , entitled " Shabda - Kalpa- Druma , " published at Calcutta in seven volumes , 4to , within the last twenty years ( vide vol . i . , under ...
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... they exhibit of the manners and customs of the Hindus in days of yore . The events narrated in the Purānas and Mahābhārata , respecting 14 HISTORY OF CHESS . CHATURANGA, or the Primeval Hindu Chess-Ancient Writings of Hindus.
... they exhibit of the manners and customs of the Hindus in days of yore . The events narrated in the Purānas and Mahābhārata , respecting 14 HISTORY OF CHESS . CHATURANGA, or the Primeval Hindu Chess-Ancient Writings of Hindus.
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... ancient Hindus was that of dice , a knowledge of which , in those primitive times , formed one of the requisite accomplishments of a hero , just as skill in Chess was considered among us in the palmy days of chivalry . In Ward's " View ...
... ancient Hindus was that of dice , a knowledge of which , in those primitive times , formed one of the requisite accomplishments of a hero , just as skill in Chess was considered among us in the palmy days of chivalry . In Ward's " View ...
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... ancient Hindu prince , who , in his day , had been similarly situated , and who , after undergoing many toils and miseries at last recovered his kingdom . Nala owed all his misfortunes to the dice , for we may suppose this to have ...
... ancient Hindu prince , who , in his day , had been similarly situated , and who , after undergoing many toils and miseries at last recovered his kingdom . Nala owed all his misfortunes to the dice , for we may suppose this to have ...
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