Of all the claims which have been advanced to the invention and origin of chess, that of the Hindu Game the Chaturanga is the most ancient, and its accounts contain the earliest allusion worthy of serious notice to anything partaking of the principles and form of chess. The description of it is taken from the Sanskrit text, and our first knowledge of it is obtained through the works of Dr. Hyde, 1693, and Sir William Jones, 1784, Professor Duncan Forbes in a History of Chess, dedicated to Sir Frederic Madden and Howard Staunton, published in 1860, further elaborated the researches of his predecessors and claims by the aid of his better acquaintance with chess, and improved knowledge of the Sanskrit to have proved the Chaturanga as the first form of chess beyond a shadow of doubt.
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synopsis of history of chess development,
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Roughly, the book has 2 parts. The first deals with the history of chess. While the second part is a collection of essays about other more modern aspects of chess.
The history is perhaps the main focus. It has certainly been covered before in other texts, and at greater length. Here, you get a good synopsis of how chess originated in India. Most notably, pawns could only move one square at the start. Hence the naming of Queen's Indian and King's Indian for 2 of black's defenses in the modern game. We see how chess migrated to the Middle East and thence to Europe, where it slowly changed into its current form. There seems to have been a consensus in the 18th century that stabilised the moves into what was seen as producing a good game, in some esthetic sense. To this day, that consensus has been upheld. Variant moves have garnered little traction beyond mere curiosity value.
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An interesting approach to chess history,
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This is a mix of history and chess player analysis. What I found intriguing about the book was that it presented the history of chess as a theory.
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Sir William Jones, Asiatic Society, Professor Duncan Forbes, Ruy Lopez, White Black, Alexander the Great, New York, Anna Comnena, British Chess Association, British Museum, Paul Morphy, Queen Hatasu, Fortnightly Review, Harun Ar Rashid, Hindu Chaturanga, Medinet Abu, Princess Irene, Professor Ruskin, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Frederick Madden, Covent Garden, Great Britain, Jacobus de Cessolus, Louis Paulsen, Major Price New!
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This is the work of one of the most distinguished of English players. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blindfold play, chess history, chess men, chess world, chess play, royal game, foreign players, chess masters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir William Jones, Asiatic Society, Professor Duncan Forbes, Ruy Lopez, White Black, Alexander the Great, New York, Anna Comnena, British Chess Association, British Museum, Paul Morphy, Queen Hatasu, Fortnightly Review, Harun Ar Rashid, Hindu Chaturanga, Medinet Abu, Princess Irene, Professor Ruskin, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Frederick Madden, Covent Garden, Great Britain, Jacobus de Cessolus, Louis Paulsen, Major Price New!
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- The Modern Chess Instructor, Part I and Part II (Classic Chess) by Wilhelm Steinitz in Front Matter, and page 11
- History of British India (Classics of British Historical Literature) by James Mill on page 75
- The Aztecs by Philip Ardagh on page 51
- Lord Randolph Churchill by Robert Rhodes James on page 106
- The History of Ireland (Teach Yourself) by Finbar Madden on page 155
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