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A History of Chess
900 Seiten, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag, Reprint, Oxford University, 2002, original erschienen 1913
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The aim of this work is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess which exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the beginning of the 7th century AD.
The first part of the book describes the history of the Asiatic varieties of chess, the Arabic and Persian literature on chess, and the theory and practice of the game of Shatranj. The second part is concerned with chess in Europe in the Middle Ages, its role in literature and in the moralities, and with medieval chess problems, leading up to the beginning of modern chess and the history of the modern game through to the nineteenth century.
Murray's comprehensive discussion of the wide ranging sources and of chess problems makes it unlikely that this book will ever be equalled. It is referred to as the authoritative source by every modern writer on chess history.
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Please see also Murray, A History of Board-Games other than Chess
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece Ancient Ivory Chessman in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris
20 The Algebraical Notation
30 Board from Thebes, Egypt (Abbot Collection, Louvre)
30 Board of Queen Hatasu, British Museum
31 Board from Enkomi, Cyprus
38 Board for Pachisi and Chaupur
38 Gavalata Board (Culin, C. % P. G, 851)
38 Ashta Kashte Board (Falk., 265)
39 Board, Dice and Men used in Saturankam (chaturanga). (Parker, 695)
39 Siga Board (Parker, 607)
40 The Bharhut Board
41 The Markings on modern Indian Chessboards
43 Divinatory Diagram, Tibet
54 Knight's, Rook's, and Elephant's Tours (Rudrata)
55 Elephant's Tour
58 Four-handed Chess. After al-Beruni
59 The Elephant's Move in early Indian chess
65 Knight's Tour (Nilakant'ha)
69 Four-handed Chess. After Baghunandana
80 The modern Indian Chess
86 Indian Chessmen (Hyde, ii. 123)
88 The Bambra-ka-thul (Brahmanabad) Chessmen
88 Indian Chessmen. Eighteenth Century. From Mr. Plait's Collection
89 Indian Chessmen from Surat (Hyde)
90 Some modern Indian Chessmen
90 Modern Indian Chessmen. Platt Collection
92-3 Modern Indian Problems
97 Malay Chessboards. Skeat Collection, Cambridge
97 Malay Chessboard (Malacca and mainland)
97 Malay Chessboard (Sumatra)
105 Malay Chessmen (Selangor). Skeat Collection
106 Malay Chessmen
110 The Markings on Burmese Chessboards, and Burmese arrangements of the Chessmen
111 Burmese Chessmen. Pitt-Rivers Collection, Oxford
111 Initial arrangement of the Nes (Pawns)
112 Burmese arrangement of the Chessmen. From Bastian
114 Siamese Chessmen. From the Schachzeitung
115 The Siamese arrangement of the Chessmen
121 The Chinese and Japanese names for chess
124 Himly's Reconstruction of early Chinese Chess
125 Chinese Chess (Culin)
126 Bronze Chessmen in the British Museum
128 Multiple Checks in Chinese Chess
129 Chinese Chess Problems
133 Game of the Three Kingdoms
134 Chessmen carved in China for the European Game. From Mr. Platt's Collection
135 Corean Chessboard. After Culin
141 The Japanese Chessboard
142 Japanese Chessman
142 The different scripts for Kin
148 Japanese Chess Problems
224 Rook from Egypt. British Museum
224 Older Muslim arrangement of the Chessmen
237-8 The Muslim ta'bryat from al-'Adli and as-Suli
241-2 Ta'biyat from MS. BM
243 Ta'biyat from MS. RAS
243 Ta'blyat from MS. F
244 Ta'biyat from MS. Gotha
248 The Mujannah Opening. The position after the twelfth move
267 Drawn position
282-306 The Muslim Problems
335-6 Muslim Knight's Tours
337-8 Muslim Exercises
338 Al-'Adli's Calculating-board
342 Round or Byzantine Chess
346 Indian Problem of Decimal Chess
349 The Game of the Four Seasons, Alf.
350 The Game of Los Escaques, Alf.
354 Turkish Chessmen. From Hyde
355 Numbering of squares attributed to Muhammad Sa'id
357 Problems of modern Turkish Chess. From MS. Ber.
361 Modern Muslim (Egyptian) Chessmen. Platt Collection
361 Kurdish Chessmen. From Culin
361 Turkish Chessmen. After Falkener
363 Abyssinian Chessmen of Welled Selasse
363 Abyssinian Chessmen
371 Soyot Chessmen. After Savenkof
375 Yakutat Chessmen (Alaska). After Culin
387 Russian Slon and Lodya. After Savenkof
388 Russian Lodya from the Platt Collection. Modern
388 Russian Chessmen. Platt Collection
394 Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg (1266-1308), playing Chess. (Book of Manesse, Paris MS., old 7266)
445 The board for tablut
457 Diagram illustrating mediaeval notation
473 Game position from the Munich MS. of Carmina Burann
473 Game position from MS. Alf
476 Short Assize. From MS. Dresden 0/59
476 Short Assize. From MS. Paris f. fr. 143
477 Jje guy de ly enginous e l\j coueytous
483 The Courier game. After Selenus
484 The Chessplayers. By Lucas von Leyden
490 Kobel's chess notation
495 The chess notation of MS. Paris f. fr. 1173
503 Miniature from MS. Lat. 4660, Munich (Carmina Burana)
536 Death gives checkmate to a King
542 From Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse
543 From Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse
547 From the Libra di'giuocho di scacchi. Florence, 1493
571-3 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Alf.
575-9 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Arch.
583-8 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Cott.
589-600 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. K.
602-5 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Port.
606-7 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Ash
609-12 MS. D.
614 Boards for Nine Holes
614 Boards for the Smaller Merels
615 Boards for the Larger Merels
615 Alquerque de Doze
617 Board for Fox and geese
629 Mediaeval European Problems from Bonus Socius
632-6 Mediaeval European Problems from the Picard BS. MSS.
654-77 Mediaeval European Problems from Civis Bononiae
694-6 Mediaeval European Problems from other CB. MSS.
704 Book and Pawn, from MS. WA
705 Arms of Rochlitz (Massmann)
705 Rooks from Randle Holme
706 Mediaeval European Problems from Köbel
709-15 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Pice
720-5 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. S.
720-5 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. C
734 Mediaeval European Problems from Lucena
735 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. WD
757 Inlaid board for Merels and Chess
758 The Charlemagne Chessmen. Bibl. nat., Paris
760 King. Lewis chessmen in British Museum
760 Queens. Lewis chessmen, and from co. Meath
761 Bishops, Knights, and Rooks. Lewis chessmen
762 Chess Bishops. German, early 13th century
762 The Charlemagne chessmen. Bibl. nat., Paris
763 Pawns. Lewis chessmen
763 Knight (Kunstkammer, Berlin)
764 The Ager chessmen: King, Queen
764 Damaged German chess King. British Museum
765 The Ager chessmen: Bishop, Knight
766 The Ager chessmen: Pawn, Rook, plain pieces
766 The Charlemagne chessmen. The Dom, Osnabrück
767 Knight and King, Brit. Mus.; Rook, Bargello Mus.; Bishops, Helpstone, Beverley, and Northampton Castle
767 The St. Louis chessmen. Cluny Museum
768 Chessmen in the Cluny Museum
769 Figures of Chessmen from Problem MSS.
770 Types of Fifteenth-Century Chessmen
770 Chessmen from Damiano, Egenolff
771 Chessmen from Egenolff, Kobel, Gracco, MS. WD, Selenus, Studies of Chess
772 Rooks and other Chess Charges from Randle Holme
772 French Chessmen, Eighteenth Century
773 Knight, English pattern
773 Staunton Chessmen
774 Chess-rook in Heraldry
794-5 Early Modern Problems from MS. Gött.
797-8 Early Modern Problems from Lucena
799-800 Early Modern Problems from Damiano
801 Early Modern Problems from MS. WD
803-5 Early Modern Problmes from MSS. Leon and It.
807 Early Modern Problems from MS. C
836 Early Modern Problems from Gracco
838 Marinelli's Three-handed Chess
853 Game position from Allgaier (Holm)
858 Position to illustrate Icelandic mates
876 The Automaton Chessplayer
(The plates facing pages 88, 134, and 388 appeared originally in the Field, and are reproduced here by kind permission of the Proprietors. The plates facing pages 90 and 361 are from photographs taken specially for this work by my brother, Mr. E. T. Ruthven Murray.)
The first part of the book describes the history of the Asiatic varieties of chess, the Arabic and Persian literature on chess, and the theory and practice of the game of Shatranj. The second part is concerned with chess in Europe in the Middle Ages, its role in literature and in the moralities, and with medieval chess problems, leading up to the beginning of modern chess and the history of the modern game through to the nineteenth century.
Murray's comprehensive discussion of the wide ranging sources and of chess problems makes it unlikely that this book will ever be equalled. It is referred to as the authoritative source by every modern writer on chess history.
----
Please see also Murray, A History of Board-Games other than Chess
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece Ancient Ivory Chessman in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris
20 The Algebraical Notation
30 Board from Thebes, Egypt (Abbot Collection, Louvre)
30 Board of Queen Hatasu, British Museum
31 Board from Enkomi, Cyprus
38 Board for Pachisi and Chaupur
38 Gavalata Board (Culin, C. % P. G, 851)
38 Ashta Kashte Board (Falk., 265)
39 Board, Dice and Men used in Saturankam (chaturanga). (Parker, 695)
39 Siga Board (Parker, 607)
40 The Bharhut Board
41 The Markings on modern Indian Chessboards
43 Divinatory Diagram, Tibet
54 Knight's, Rook's, and Elephant's Tours (Rudrata)
55 Elephant's Tour
58 Four-handed Chess. After al-Beruni
59 The Elephant's Move in early Indian chess
65 Knight's Tour (Nilakant'ha)
69 Four-handed Chess. After Baghunandana
80 The modern Indian Chess
86 Indian Chessmen (Hyde, ii. 123)
88 The Bambra-ka-thul (Brahmanabad) Chessmen
88 Indian Chessmen. Eighteenth Century. From Mr. Plait's Collection
89 Indian Chessmen from Surat (Hyde)
90 Some modern Indian Chessmen
90 Modern Indian Chessmen. Platt Collection
92-3 Modern Indian Problems
97 Malay Chessboards. Skeat Collection, Cambridge
97 Malay Chessboard (Malacca and mainland)
97 Malay Chessboard (Sumatra)
105 Malay Chessmen (Selangor). Skeat Collection
106 Malay Chessmen
110 The Markings on Burmese Chessboards, and Burmese arrangements of the Chessmen
111 Burmese Chessmen. Pitt-Rivers Collection, Oxford
111 Initial arrangement of the Nes (Pawns)
112 Burmese arrangement of the Chessmen. From Bastian
114 Siamese Chessmen. From the Schachzeitung
115 The Siamese arrangement of the Chessmen
121 The Chinese and Japanese names for chess
124 Himly's Reconstruction of early Chinese Chess
125 Chinese Chess (Culin)
126 Bronze Chessmen in the British Museum
128 Multiple Checks in Chinese Chess
129 Chinese Chess Problems
133 Game of the Three Kingdoms
134 Chessmen carved in China for the European Game. From Mr. Platt's Collection
135 Corean Chessboard. After Culin
141 The Japanese Chessboard
142 Japanese Chessman
142 The different scripts for Kin
148 Japanese Chess Problems
224 Rook from Egypt. British Museum
224 Older Muslim arrangement of the Chessmen
237-8 The Muslim ta'bryat from al-'Adli and as-Suli
241-2 Ta'biyat from MS. BM
243 Ta'biyat from MS. RAS
243 Ta'blyat from MS. F
244 Ta'biyat from MS. Gotha
248 The Mujannah Opening. The position after the twelfth move
267 Drawn position
282-306 The Muslim Problems
335-6 Muslim Knight's Tours
337-8 Muslim Exercises
338 Al-'Adli's Calculating-board
342 Round or Byzantine Chess
346 Indian Problem of Decimal Chess
349 The Game of the Four Seasons, Alf.
350 The Game of Los Escaques, Alf.
354 Turkish Chessmen. From Hyde
355 Numbering of squares attributed to Muhammad Sa'id
357 Problems of modern Turkish Chess. From MS. Ber.
361 Modern Muslim (Egyptian) Chessmen. Platt Collection
361 Kurdish Chessmen. From Culin
361 Turkish Chessmen. After Falkener
363 Abyssinian Chessmen of Welled Selasse
363 Abyssinian Chessmen
371 Soyot Chessmen. After Savenkof
375 Yakutat Chessmen (Alaska). After Culin
387 Russian Slon and Lodya. After Savenkof
388 Russian Lodya from the Platt Collection. Modern
388 Russian Chessmen. Platt Collection
394 Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg (1266-1308), playing Chess. (Book of Manesse, Paris MS., old 7266)
445 The board for tablut
457 Diagram illustrating mediaeval notation
473 Game position from the Munich MS. of Carmina Burann
473 Game position from MS. Alf
476 Short Assize. From MS. Dresden 0/59
476 Short Assize. From MS. Paris f. fr. 143
477 Jje guy de ly enginous e l\j coueytous
483 The Courier game. After Selenus
484 The Chessplayers. By Lucas von Leyden
490 Kobel's chess notation
495 The chess notation of MS. Paris f. fr. 1173
503 Miniature from MS. Lat. 4660, Munich (Carmina Burana)
536 Death gives checkmate to a King
542 From Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse
543 From Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse
547 From the Libra di'giuocho di scacchi. Florence, 1493
571-3 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Alf.
575-9 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Arch.
583-8 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Cott.
589-600 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. K.
602-5 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Port.
606-7 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Ash
609-12 MS. D.
614 Boards for Nine Holes
614 Boards for the Smaller Merels
615 Boards for the Larger Merels
615 Alquerque de Doze
617 Board for Fox and geese
629 Mediaeval European Problems from Bonus Socius
632-6 Mediaeval European Problems from the Picard BS. MSS.
654-77 Mediaeval European Problems from Civis Bononiae
694-6 Mediaeval European Problems from other CB. MSS.
704 Book and Pawn, from MS. WA
705 Arms of Rochlitz (Massmann)
705 Rooks from Randle Holme
706 Mediaeval European Problems from Köbel
709-15 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. Pice
720-5 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. S.
720-5 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. C
734 Mediaeval European Problems from Lucena
735 Mediaeval European Problems from MS. WD
757 Inlaid board for Merels and Chess
758 The Charlemagne Chessmen. Bibl. nat., Paris
760 King. Lewis chessmen in British Museum
760 Queens. Lewis chessmen, and from co. Meath
761 Bishops, Knights, and Rooks. Lewis chessmen
762 Chess Bishops. German, early 13th century
762 The Charlemagne chessmen. Bibl. nat., Paris
763 Pawns. Lewis chessmen
763 Knight (Kunstkammer, Berlin)
764 The Ager chessmen: King, Queen
764 Damaged German chess King. British Museum
765 The Ager chessmen: Bishop, Knight
766 The Ager chessmen: Pawn, Rook, plain pieces
766 The Charlemagne chessmen. The Dom, Osnabrück
767 Knight and King, Brit. Mus.; Rook, Bargello Mus.; Bishops, Helpstone, Beverley, and Northampton Castle
767 The St. Louis chessmen. Cluny Museum
768 Chessmen in the Cluny Museum
769 Figures of Chessmen from Problem MSS.
770 Types of Fifteenth-Century Chessmen
770 Chessmen from Damiano, Egenolff
771 Chessmen from Egenolff, Kobel, Gracco, MS. WD, Selenus, Studies of Chess
772 Rooks and other Chess Charges from Randle Holme
772 French Chessmen, Eighteenth Century
773 Knight, English pattern
773 Staunton Chessmen
774 Chess-rook in Heraldry
794-5 Early Modern Problems from MS. Gött.
797-8 Early Modern Problems from Lucena
799-800 Early Modern Problems from Damiano
801 Early Modern Problems from MS. WD
803-5 Early Modern Problmes from MSS. Leon and It.
807 Early Modern Problems from MS. C
836 Early Modern Problems from Gracco
838 Marinelli's Three-handed Chess
853 Game position from Allgaier (Holm)
858 Position to illustrate Icelandic mates
876 The Automaton Chessplayer
(The plates facing pages 88, 134, and 388 appeared originally in the Field, and are reproduced here by kind permission of the Proprietors. The plates facing pages 90 and 361 are from photographs taken specially for this work by my brother, Mr. E. T. Ruthven Murray.)
| EAN | 0198274033 |
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| Gewicht | 1.500 kg |
| Hersteller | Oxford University |
| Breite | 12,2 cm |
| Höhe | 17,2 cm |
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2002 |
| Autor | H. J. R. Murray |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| ISBN-10 | 0198274033 |
| Jahr der Originalausgabe | 1913 |
| Seiten | 900 |
| Einband | Leinen mit Schutzumschlag |
CONTENTS
PART I. CHESS IN ASIA
025 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
European chess of Indian ancestry.-Asiatic games of similar ancestry.-Classifi-cation of Board-games.-Indian Board-games.-The Ashtapada.-Speculations on the nature of the original Indian chess.-Previous theories as to the ancestry of the game
051 CHAPTER II. CHESS IN INDIA. I
The earliest references in Subandhu, Bana, &c.-The chess-tours in Rudrata. -- Position in India c. 1000.-Some Arabic references.-Later Indian references.- Nilakant'ha
068 CHAPTER III. CHESS IN INDIA. II
The Four-handed Dice-game.-The account in Raghunandana.-The method of play. -The modern four-handed game
076 Appendix. Attempts to reconstruct the four-handed game
078 CHAPTER IV. CHESS IN INDIA. Ill
The modern games.-Three main varieties of chess played.-Summary of the nomenclatures.-The crosswise arrangement of the Kings.-Hindustani chess.- Parsi chess.-Standard of play.-Specimen games.-Native chessmen.-The problem
092 Appendix. A selection of problems from Indian sources
095 CHAPTER V. CHESS IN THE MALAY LANDS
Introductory.-Spread in Malay lands.-Early references.-The chessboard.- Nomenclature.-Moves of the pieces.-Rules.-Illustrative games.-Malay chessmen.-Concluding observations
108 CHAPTER VI. CHESS IN FURTHER INDIA
Introductory remarks.-I. Burmese chess.-Name of the game.-The chessboard.- The chessmen. - Nomenclature.-Initial arrangement.-Rules. - II. Siamese chess.-Name of the game.-The chessboard.-The chessmen.-Nomenclature.- Initial arrangement.-Rules.-Specimen game.--III. Annamese chess
119 CHAPTER VII. CHESS IN CHINA, COREA, AND JAPAN
The inter-relationships and ancestry of these games.-I. Chinese chess.-The name.- Early references.-The modern game.-The board.-Nomenclature.-Rules.- Openings.-End-games and problems.-Specimen games.-The games ta-ma and kyu-kung.- Derivative games.-II. Corean chess. - Board. - Nomenclature.- Rules.-Specimen game.-III. Japanese chess.-The name.-History.-Litera-ture.-Board.-Nomenclature.-Rules.-Specimen game.-Derivative games.- Problems
149 CHAPTEK VIII. CHESS IN PERSIA UNDER THE SASANIANS
Literary references.-The Karnamak.-The Chatrang-namak.-Probable introduc-tion under Nflshirwan.-The story in the Shahnama
158 Appendix. Some notes on the Persian nomenclature
161 CHAPTER IX. CHESS IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE
Chess not a classical game.-The name zatrikion.-First references in Arabic works. -References in late Greek literature.-Ecclesiastical censures-Chess in the Turkish rule, and in modern Greece
169 CHAPTER X. THE ARABIC AND PERSIAN LITERATURE OF CHESS
The chess works mentioned in the Fihi'ist, and other bibliographies.-MSS. used for the present work.-Other MSS. in European libraries.-Poems and im-promptus on chess, &c
186 CHAPTER, XI. CHESS UNDER ISLAM
Its Persian ancestry.-The date of introduction.-The legal status of chess.-Early Muhammadan chess-players.-The game during the Umayyad and 'Abbasid caliphates.-As-Suli.-Later references.-As-Safadi.-Chess at the court of Timur.- Chess in Damascus in the sixteenth century
207 CHAPTER XII. THE INVENTION OF CHESS IN MUSLIM LEGEND
A variety of stories.-The oldest versions associated with India.-The connexion with nard.-The earlier legends from the chess MSS., al-Ya'qubT, al-Mas'udl, and Firdawsi.-The dramatis personae.-The story of the reward for the invention.-The Geometrical progression in literature.-Later stories introducing Adam, the sons of Noah, &c., and Aristotle
220 CHAPTER XIII. THE GAME OF SHATRANJ: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. I
The chessboard.-The names of the chessmen in Muslim lands.-Symbolism of the game.-Forms of the chessmen.-The arrangement of the men for play.-The moves of the chessmen and technical terms.-Relative values of the pieces.-Aim and method of play.-Notation.-Concordant and discordant men.-Classification of players.-Gradations of odds-Etiquette of play
234 CHAPTER XIV. THE GAME OF SHATRANJ: ITS THEORY AND PEACTICE. II
The divisions of the game.-The Opening.-The 'akhrajat or ta'blyat.-Al-'Adli and as-Suli.-The work of al-Lajlaj.-Later treatment of the Openings.-Mid-game tactics
247 Appendix. Al-Lajlaj's analysis of the Mujannah, Masha'ikhi, Saif, and Sayyal Openings
266 CHAPTER XV. THE GAME OF SHATRANJ: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. Ill
The End-game.-Chess Endings in Muslim literature.-Summarized conclusions on the more elementary Endings.-The mansubat: their classes and characteristics.- The history of the collections.-The mansubat material; diagrams and solutions.- The Knight's Tour and other Exercises with the chessmen
339 CHAPTER XVI. GAMES DERIVED PROM MUSLIM AND INDIAN CHESS
I. Arabic games.-Oblong chess.-Decimal chess.-Chess as-su'diya.-Round chess. - Astronomical chess.-Limb chess.-II. Persian games.-Citadel chess.- Great chess.-Other modern forms.-III. Indiangames.-IV. Early Spanish games
352 CHAPTER XVII. THE MODERN GAMES OF ISLAM
The origin and history of the changes in the game.-The modern game of Persia, Turkey, and the lands bordering the Mediterranean.-Rumi chess, or the Muslim game of India.-Abyssinian chess
366 CHAPTER XVIII. CHESS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ASIA, AND IN RUSSIA
Unclassified varieties.-Paucity of information.-Nomenclature.-References to chess as played by the Tibetans, Mongols, and other Siberian races.-Probable origin of this game.-Chess in Turkestan, Armenia, and Georgia.-The older chess of Russia.-Its ancestry.-Nomenclature.-History.-Pieces.-Possible traces of Asiatic influence farther West.-StrSbeck.-Conclusion
PART II. CHESS IN EUROPE
394 CHAPTER I. CHESS IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM: ITS ORIGIN AND BEGINNINGS
The ancestry of the game.-The evidence of nomenclature, and the light it throws upon the date of the introduction of chess into Christian Europe.-The European names for chess.-Where was the European game first played ?-Mythical stories.-Earliest certain references to chess or chessmen of contemporary date
413 Appendix. Original texts
417 CHAPTER II. CHESS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The mediaeval period and its chess literature.--Earliest contemporary references in the different European countries.-The European nomenclature composite.- The game the typical chamber-recreation of the nobility.-A branch of a noble's education.-Played by the ladies.-Reasons for the popularity of chess with the leisured classes.- Chess played by the members of a noble's household.-By the burgesses of the towns.-Frowned on by the Universities.-Does not reach the lowest ranks of society.-The altered position of chess in modern days
Appendices. I. Chess in Iceland, &c.-II. Chess among the Jews.-
443 III. Some inventories of chess
452 CHAPTEK III. THE MEDIAEVAL GAME
Earliest rules.-The chequered board.-Attempts at improvement.-Assizes.-Rules in Spain.-In Lombardy.-In Germany.-In France and England.-In Iceland.- Notation. - Science of play. - Openings.-Odds.- Other arrangements. - The Courier game
485 Appendices. I. The Alfonso MS. of 1283.-II. Description of the Lombard Assize in MS. Paris, Fr. 1173 (PP.).-III. Extracts from Egenolff's Frankfort edition of Mennel's Schachzabel, 1536.-IV. Description of a chess notation in MS. Paris, Fr. 1173 (PP.).-V. From MS. Vatican, Lat. 1960, f. 28
496 CHAPTER IV. THE EARLY DIDACTIC LITERATURE
Introductory remarks. The Einsiedeln and Winchester Poems. - Alexander Neckam, De scaccis.-Cod. Benedictbeuren.-The Elegy (Qui cupit).-The Deven-ter Poem.-It pedes, and the Corpus Poem.-The Reims Poem.-The Vetula.- The Cracow Poem.-The Hebrew poem of Abraham b. Ezra, and other Hebrew
works
511 Appendix. Original texts
529 CHAPTER V. THE MORALITIES
Introductory remarks.- The Innocent Morality.-John of Waleys (Gallensis) and Alexander of Hales.-Later references to this work.-The Liber de moribus Jtominum et ojficiis nobilium of Jacobus de Cessolis.-Translations and imitations. -Galwan de Levanto.-The chess chapters in the Gesta Romanorum.-Ingold's Guldin Spil.-Les Eschez amoureux.-Other moralizing works
559 Appendix. Original texts
564 CHAPTER VI. THE MEDIAEVAL PROBLEM. I
Introductory.-The function of the problem in mediaeval European chess.-The problem of Muslim origin.-Its European names.-The European MSS.-Their historical development.-The Alfonso MS. and its European problems. The Archinto MS.-The Anglo-Norman or English group of MSS.-The two British Museum MSS.-The Porter and Ashmole MSS.-The Dresden MS
613 Appendix. Merels and allied games
618 CHAPTER VII. THE MEDIAEVAL PROBLEM. II
The great collections.-The MSS. of the Bonus Socius work classified.-The author-ship and date of the work.-Contents.-Additional material in the MSS. of the Picard group.-The MSS. of the Civis Bononiae work.-Authorship and date.- Classification of the MSS.-General remarks on the mediaeval problem.-Contents of the Civis Bononiae work.-Additional material from single MSS
700 Appendices. I. The Latin Preface to the Bonus Socius work.-II. The introductions to the French translations of the Bonus Socius work.-III. Intro-duction to MS. Florence, Bibl. Nat. XIX. 7. 37 (F).-IV. Some notes on the sections on Tables and Merels in the Bonus Socius and Civis Bononiae works
704 CHAPTER VIII. THE MEDIAEVAL PROBLEM. Ill
Unclassified and later works.-The Munich MS.-MS. Wolfenbiittel 17.30. Aug.4.- Kobel's Schachtzdbel Spiel.-Janot's Sensuit Jeux Partis des Eschez.-MS. Florence XIX, 11. 87.-The Sorbonne MS.-The Casanatense MS.-Mediaeval problems in the early works of modern chess.
736 CHAPTER IX. CHESS IN MEDIAEVAL LITERATURE
Longer chess incidents in the Chansons de geste.-The magic chess of the Arthurian romances.-Chess in the Beast romances.-Allegories based on chess.-Other comparisons and metaphors
756 CHAPTEE X. CHESSBOARDS AND CHESSMEN
Mediaeval boards.-Combined boards for chess and other games.-Carved chess-men.-The ' Charlemagne chessmen '.-The Lewis chessmen.-Conventional chessmen.-The Ager and Osnabriick pieces.-The ' St. Louis chessmen'.-Chess-men in MSS. and printed books.-Chess in cookery.-Chess in heraldry
776 CHAPTER XI. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN CHESS
Time and place of first appearance.-Early literature of the modern game.-Le Jeu des Esches de la dame, moralise.'-The Catalan Scachs d'amor.-The GOttingen MS.-Lucena.-Damiano.-Vida and Caldogno.-Egenolff.-Early problems of
the modern game
808 Appendices. I. Extract from Lucena. II. Extract from Egenolff
811 CHAPTER XII. FROM LOPEZ TO GEECO
The great chess activity of Southern Europe during the second half of the six-teenth century.-Ruy Lopez.-Leonardo and Paolo Boi.-Polerio.-Salvio and Carrera.-Greco.-The introduction of castling and other changes in the game.- The problem
837 CHAPTER XIII. FROM GRECO TO STAMMA
Chess in Italy, 1630-1730.-In France and England, 1550-1700.-Asperling.- Cunningham.-Caze.-The Coffee-houses.-Bertin.-Stamma.-Hoyle.-Chess in Germany, 1500-1790.-In Sweden, Denmark, &c.-In Iceland.-Four-handed chess
861 CHAPTER XIV. PHILIDOR AND THE MODENESE MASTERS
Philidor, his chess career and system of play.-Del Rio, Lolli and Ponziani.-The Italian school of play.-The modern problem.-The Parisian Amateurs.-Des-chapelles.-Sarratt and his services to English chess.-Allgaier.-The Automaton Chess-player
878 CHAPTEE XV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Lewis.-De la Bourdonnais and MacDonnell.-The Berlin Pleiades.-Staunton and Saint-Amant.-The chess magazine and newspaper column.-The 1851 Tourna-ment.-Anderssen and Morphy.-Steinitz and the Modern School
PART I. CHESS IN ASIA
025 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
European chess of Indian ancestry.-Asiatic games of similar ancestry.-Classifi-cation of Board-games.-Indian Board-games.-The Ashtapada.-Speculations on the nature of the original Indian chess.-Previous theories as to the ancestry of the game
051 CHAPTER II. CHESS IN INDIA. I
The earliest references in Subandhu, Bana, &c.-The chess-tours in Rudrata. -- Position in India c. 1000.-Some Arabic references.-Later Indian references.- Nilakant'ha
068 CHAPTER III. CHESS IN INDIA. II
The Four-handed Dice-game.-The account in Raghunandana.-The method of play. -The modern four-handed game
076 Appendix. Attempts to reconstruct the four-handed game
078 CHAPTER IV. CHESS IN INDIA. Ill
The modern games.-Three main varieties of chess played.-Summary of the nomenclatures.-The crosswise arrangement of the Kings.-Hindustani chess.- Parsi chess.-Standard of play.-Specimen games.-Native chessmen.-The problem
092 Appendix. A selection of problems from Indian sources
095 CHAPTER V. CHESS IN THE MALAY LANDS
Introductory.-Spread in Malay lands.-Early references.-The chessboard.- Nomenclature.-Moves of the pieces.-Rules.-Illustrative games.-Malay chessmen.-Concluding observations
108 CHAPTER VI. CHESS IN FURTHER INDIA
Introductory remarks.-I. Burmese chess.-Name of the game.-The chessboard.- The chessmen. - Nomenclature.-Initial arrangement.-Rules. - II. Siamese chess.-Name of the game.-The chessboard.-The chessmen.-Nomenclature.- Initial arrangement.-Rules.-Specimen game.--III. Annamese chess
119 CHAPTER VII. CHESS IN CHINA, COREA, AND JAPAN
The inter-relationships and ancestry of these games.-I. Chinese chess.-The name.- Early references.-The modern game.-The board.-Nomenclature.-Rules.- Openings.-End-games and problems.-Specimen games.-The games ta-ma and kyu-kung.- Derivative games.-II. Corean chess. - Board. - Nomenclature.- Rules.-Specimen game.-III. Japanese chess.-The name.-History.-Litera-ture.-Board.-Nomenclature.-Rules.-Specimen game.-Derivative games.- Problems
149 CHAPTEK VIII. CHESS IN PERSIA UNDER THE SASANIANS
Literary references.-The Karnamak.-The Chatrang-namak.-Probable introduc-tion under Nflshirwan.-The story in the Shahnama
158 Appendix. Some notes on the Persian nomenclature
161 CHAPTER IX. CHESS IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE
Chess not a classical game.-The name zatrikion.-First references in Arabic works. -References in late Greek literature.-Ecclesiastical censures-Chess in the Turkish rule, and in modern Greece
169 CHAPTER X. THE ARABIC AND PERSIAN LITERATURE OF CHESS
The chess works mentioned in the Fihi'ist, and other bibliographies.-MSS. used for the present work.-Other MSS. in European libraries.-Poems and im-promptus on chess, &c
186 CHAPTER, XI. CHESS UNDER ISLAM
Its Persian ancestry.-The date of introduction.-The legal status of chess.-Early Muhammadan chess-players.-The game during the Umayyad and 'Abbasid caliphates.-As-Suli.-Later references.-As-Safadi.-Chess at the court of Timur.- Chess in Damascus in the sixteenth century
207 CHAPTER XII. THE INVENTION OF CHESS IN MUSLIM LEGEND
A variety of stories.-The oldest versions associated with India.-The connexion with nard.-The earlier legends from the chess MSS., al-Ya'qubT, al-Mas'udl, and Firdawsi.-The dramatis personae.-The story of the reward for the invention.-The Geometrical progression in literature.-Later stories introducing Adam, the sons of Noah, &c., and Aristotle
220 CHAPTER XIII. THE GAME OF SHATRANJ: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. I
The chessboard.-The names of the chessmen in Muslim lands.-Symbolism of the game.-Forms of the chessmen.-The arrangement of the men for play.-The moves of the chessmen and technical terms.-Relative values of the pieces.-Aim and method of play.-Notation.-Concordant and discordant men.-Classification of players.-Gradations of odds-Etiquette of play
234 CHAPTER XIV. THE GAME OF SHATRANJ: ITS THEORY AND PEACTICE. II
The divisions of the game.-The Opening.-The 'akhrajat or ta'blyat.-Al-'Adli and as-Suli.-The work of al-Lajlaj.-Later treatment of the Openings.-Mid-game tactics
247 Appendix. Al-Lajlaj's analysis of the Mujannah, Masha'ikhi, Saif, and Sayyal Openings
266 CHAPTER XV. THE GAME OF SHATRANJ: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. Ill
The End-game.-Chess Endings in Muslim literature.-Summarized conclusions on the more elementary Endings.-The mansubat: their classes and characteristics.- The history of the collections.-The mansubat material; diagrams and solutions.- The Knight's Tour and other Exercises with the chessmen
339 CHAPTER XVI. GAMES DERIVED PROM MUSLIM AND INDIAN CHESS
I. Arabic games.-Oblong chess.-Decimal chess.-Chess as-su'diya.-Round chess. - Astronomical chess.-Limb chess.-II. Persian games.-Citadel chess.- Great chess.-Other modern forms.-III. Indiangames.-IV. Early Spanish games
352 CHAPTER XVII. THE MODERN GAMES OF ISLAM
The origin and history of the changes in the game.-The modern game of Persia, Turkey, and the lands bordering the Mediterranean.-Rumi chess, or the Muslim game of India.-Abyssinian chess
366 CHAPTER XVIII. CHESS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ASIA, AND IN RUSSIA
Unclassified varieties.-Paucity of information.-Nomenclature.-References to chess as played by the Tibetans, Mongols, and other Siberian races.-Probable origin of this game.-Chess in Turkestan, Armenia, and Georgia.-The older chess of Russia.-Its ancestry.-Nomenclature.-History.-Pieces.-Possible traces of Asiatic influence farther West.-StrSbeck.-Conclusion
PART II. CHESS IN EUROPE
394 CHAPTER I. CHESS IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM: ITS ORIGIN AND BEGINNINGS
The ancestry of the game.-The evidence of nomenclature, and the light it throws upon the date of the introduction of chess into Christian Europe.-The European names for chess.-Where was the European game first played ?-Mythical stories.-Earliest certain references to chess or chessmen of contemporary date
413 Appendix. Original texts
417 CHAPTER II. CHESS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The mediaeval period and its chess literature.--Earliest contemporary references in the different European countries.-The European nomenclature composite.- The game the typical chamber-recreation of the nobility.-A branch of a noble's education.-Played by the ladies.-Reasons for the popularity of chess with the leisured classes.- Chess played by the members of a noble's household.-By the burgesses of the towns.-Frowned on by the Universities.-Does not reach the lowest ranks of society.-The altered position of chess in modern days
Appendices. I. Chess in Iceland, &c.-II. Chess among the Jews.-
443 III. Some inventories of chess
452 CHAPTEK III. THE MEDIAEVAL GAME
Earliest rules.-The chequered board.-Attempts at improvement.-Assizes.-Rules in Spain.-In Lombardy.-In Germany.-In France and England.-In Iceland.- Notation. - Science of play. - Openings.-Odds.- Other arrangements. - The Courier game
485 Appendices. I. The Alfonso MS. of 1283.-II. Description of the Lombard Assize in MS. Paris, Fr. 1173 (PP.).-III. Extracts from Egenolff's Frankfort edition of Mennel's Schachzabel, 1536.-IV. Description of a chess notation in MS. Paris, Fr. 1173 (PP.).-V. From MS. Vatican, Lat. 1960, f. 28
496 CHAPTER IV. THE EARLY DIDACTIC LITERATURE
Introductory remarks. The Einsiedeln and Winchester Poems. - Alexander Neckam, De scaccis.-Cod. Benedictbeuren.-The Elegy (Qui cupit).-The Deven-ter Poem.-It pedes, and the Corpus Poem.-The Reims Poem.-The Vetula.- The Cracow Poem.-The Hebrew poem of Abraham b. Ezra, and other Hebrew
works
511 Appendix. Original texts
529 CHAPTER V. THE MORALITIES
Introductory remarks.- The Innocent Morality.-John of Waleys (Gallensis) and Alexander of Hales.-Later references to this work.-The Liber de moribus Jtominum et ojficiis nobilium of Jacobus de Cessolis.-Translations and imitations. -Galwan de Levanto.-The chess chapters in the Gesta Romanorum.-Ingold's Guldin Spil.-Les Eschez amoureux.-Other moralizing works
559 Appendix. Original texts
564 CHAPTER VI. THE MEDIAEVAL PROBLEM. I
Introductory.-The function of the problem in mediaeval European chess.-The problem of Muslim origin.-Its European names.-The European MSS.-Their historical development.-The Alfonso MS. and its European problems. The Archinto MS.-The Anglo-Norman or English group of MSS.-The two British Museum MSS.-The Porter and Ashmole MSS.-The Dresden MS
613 Appendix. Merels and allied games
618 CHAPTER VII. THE MEDIAEVAL PROBLEM. II
The great collections.-The MSS. of the Bonus Socius work classified.-The author-ship and date of the work.-Contents.-Additional material in the MSS. of the Picard group.-The MSS. of the Civis Bononiae work.-Authorship and date.- Classification of the MSS.-General remarks on the mediaeval problem.-Contents of the Civis Bononiae work.-Additional material from single MSS
700 Appendices. I. The Latin Preface to the Bonus Socius work.-II. The introductions to the French translations of the Bonus Socius work.-III. Intro-duction to MS. Florence, Bibl. Nat. XIX. 7. 37 (F).-IV. Some notes on the sections on Tables and Merels in the Bonus Socius and Civis Bononiae works
704 CHAPTER VIII. THE MEDIAEVAL PROBLEM. Ill
Unclassified and later works.-The Munich MS.-MS. Wolfenbiittel 17.30. Aug.4.- Kobel's Schachtzdbel Spiel.-Janot's Sensuit Jeux Partis des Eschez.-MS. Florence XIX, 11. 87.-The Sorbonne MS.-The Casanatense MS.-Mediaeval problems in the early works of modern chess.
736 CHAPTER IX. CHESS IN MEDIAEVAL LITERATURE
Longer chess incidents in the Chansons de geste.-The magic chess of the Arthurian romances.-Chess in the Beast romances.-Allegories based on chess.-Other comparisons and metaphors
756 CHAPTEE X. CHESSBOARDS AND CHESSMEN
Mediaeval boards.-Combined boards for chess and other games.-Carved chess-men.-The ' Charlemagne chessmen '.-The Lewis chessmen.-Conventional chessmen.-The Ager and Osnabriick pieces.-The ' St. Louis chessmen'.-Chess-men in MSS. and printed books.-Chess in cookery.-Chess in heraldry
776 CHAPTER XI. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN CHESS
Time and place of first appearance.-Early literature of the modern game.-Le Jeu des Esches de la dame, moralise.'-The Catalan Scachs d'amor.-The GOttingen MS.-Lucena.-Damiano.-Vida and Caldogno.-Egenolff.-Early problems of
the modern game
808 Appendices. I. Extract from Lucena. II. Extract from Egenolff
811 CHAPTER XII. FROM LOPEZ TO GEECO
The great chess activity of Southern Europe during the second half of the six-teenth century.-Ruy Lopez.-Leonardo and Paolo Boi.-Polerio.-Salvio and Carrera.-Greco.-The introduction of castling and other changes in the game.- The problem
837 CHAPTER XIII. FROM GRECO TO STAMMA
Chess in Italy, 1630-1730.-In France and England, 1550-1700.-Asperling.- Cunningham.-Caze.-The Coffee-houses.-Bertin.-Stamma.-Hoyle.-Chess in Germany, 1500-1790.-In Sweden, Denmark, &c.-In Iceland.-Four-handed chess
861 CHAPTER XIV. PHILIDOR AND THE MODENESE MASTERS
Philidor, his chess career and system of play.-Del Rio, Lolli and Ponziani.-The Italian school of play.-The modern problem.-The Parisian Amateurs.-Des-chapelles.-Sarratt and his services to English chess.-Allgaier.-The Automaton Chess-player
878 CHAPTEE XV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Lewis.-De la Bourdonnais and MacDonnell.-The Berlin Pleiades.-Staunton and Saint-Amant.-The chess magazine and newspaper column.-The 1851 Tourna-ment.-Anderssen and Morphy.-Steinitz and the Modern School
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