A History Of Chess by H.J.R. Murray
A meticulous, exhaustively researched study tracing the origins and development of chess from its earliest precursors in India and Persia through medieval Europe to modern forms, analyzing primary sources, manuscripts, rule changes and the evolution of piece movement, notation, problems and endgame theory, and surveying archaeological, philological and literary evidence to reconstruct how the game evolved, spread between cultures, and produced the many regional variants documented in surviving texts.
- Published
- 1913
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 800-1000
- Original Language
- English
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