Observations on the origin and progress of chess,
containing a brief account of the theory and practice of the chaturanga, the primaeval game of the Hindus, also of the shatranj, the mediaeval game of the Persians and Arabs;
the whole founded on oriental sources.

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Forbes, Duncan, 1798-1868.

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English

Published

London, Sercombe and Jack, 1855.

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50 p. diagrs.

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