Identifier: chessplayingcard00culi (find matches)
Title: Chess and playing cards
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 United States National Museum University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Subjects: Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) Chess Playing cards Games
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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are made of wood of two kinds, of the natural colors. 1 Some commentators have supposed th.it the prohibition of images in the Koranreferred to chessmen, aud the notion, repeated in ;i note to Sales Koran, has foundwide acceptance. There is do evidence that * I a known to the Arabs in the time of Mohammed. -William Maskell. Ivories, Ancient aDd Medieval. London. 1ST, p. TvCat. Nos. 16490, 16489, Mas, Arch.. Univ. Penn. From the exhibit of H. H. thelate Snltan of Johore at the Colombian Exposition, Lhnago. 862 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 4!>. Chessboard.1 Morocco. Nineteenth century. The alternate squares are made of eight-pointed stars carved in reliefand painted red with a conventional flower in yellow. The depressedsquares are painted yellow. 50. Chess. England. Board and men.2 The time of the introduction of chess into Europe has not beendefinitely fixed upon, but is believed to be in or before the Eleventhcentury. The source of the European game is Arabic, which is evident
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Pig.168. ENGLISH CHESSMEN. Time of Caxton. After Hyde. from the words check and mate, which are from Shah mat, theShah or King is dead. Nothing is really known as to how chess wasintroduced into western and central Europe.3 Cat. No. 15498, Mus. Arch., Univ. Peiin. Purchased by the writer in Gibraltar,Spain, 1893. A similar board was procured by Dr. Talcott Williams in Morocco in 1897. Heinformed the writer that he was unable to obtain the native men, foreign chessmenbeing used. 2 Cat. No. 7091, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 3 In reply to a letter of inquiry, in reference to the best modern works in Englishand German on the practice and history of chess, Mr. John G. White, of Cleveland,Ohio, has kindly furnished the writer with the following particulars: The best books in English as to the practical part of the game I think to be: E. Freeborough, Chess Openings, Ancient and Modern, 3d ed., 1896, supple-mented by— E. Freeborough, Chess Endings, London, 1891. W. Cook, Synopsis of Chess Openi

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