A History of Chess - Yuri Averbakh

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Chess – the "Royal Game" – is an ancient board game, perhaps fifteen hundred years old. There are many legends about how chess came to be. Most of them are folk tales and are far from reality.

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Contents: 4 Introduction by Yakov Shraiberg; 5 Foreword by Garry Kasparov; 8 From the Author; 11 India; 36 Iran and the Arab Caliphate; 42 Armenia; 44 Nepal; 45 Western Europe; 50 The Exchequer; 52 Chess Pieces in Europe; 53 Italy; 53 France; 54 England; 54 Scandinavia; 54 Poland; 54 The Church and Chess; 57 The Einsiedeln Manuscript; 58 Cherchez la Femme; 63 A Sermon on the Subject of Chess; 66 Russia; 69 Chess Reform; 71 The Hyderabad Manuscript; 79 Epilogue; 83 Notes; 88 Bibliography.

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