The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 196
h is shown in theillustration. The game was a fav-orite also with Voltaire, Napoleon,Frederick the Great, and many othercelebrated persons. Chess is said to be the only gamenow considered harmless by all relig-ious sects, but in the Middle Agesit was often condemned with othergames by the rulers of… … The Automaton Chess Player. (See page 188.) as with us. A great many bookshave been written about it, one of thefirst of which was by Abul Abbas, aphysician of Bagdad, in the year 899.The first to bring Chess into publicnotice in this country was BenjaminFranklin, who also wrote an essayon The…
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