Chess: A Brief History
So what came first, the chicken or the egg? Well according to current theory, the chicken (and apparently all birds) evolved from dinosaurs. So the answer is the egg came first. It was laid by a...
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There are more books on Chess than all the other sporting books put together! Not a generalisation. A fact. At least 50 new Chess books are published every year on the opening alone. Then add the...
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Monday morning. You find yourself sitting on a packed Lothian Region bus complete with yackering school kids and an over paid driver. Trying to ignore the stale stench of unwashed human you sit there...
View ArticleNot Even From Lewis, Mate
‘But it is evident, that to serve some purpose, contradictory statements were circulated by the persons who discovered or who afterwards obtained possession of these Chess-men, regarding the place...
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