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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:00:06 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:
Oh, indeed. And some of that history is recounted in one of the most
famous histories of the game of Chess, "A History of Chess"
by H. J. R. Murray.
Which is a great book but 100+ years old so a bit out of date.
Being on the national executive of the Chess Federation of Canada you
can reasonably assume I'm interested in the game <grin>
On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:54:38 -0700, The Horny Goat wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:00:06 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:
Oh, indeed. And some of that history is recounted in one of the most >>>famous histories of the game of Chess, "A History of Chess"
by H. J. R. Murray.
Which is a great book but 100+ years old so a bit out of date.
Being on the national executive of the Chess Federation of Canada you
can reasonably assume I'm interested in the game <grin>
It's true it wouldn't mention Magnus Carlsen, but I hardly think that
being more than 100 years old... disqualifies it from being a good source >concerning how ecclesiastical authorities reacted to Chess... in the
Middle Ages!
I mean, it's certainly possible that additional manuscripts have been >unearthed in musty libraries that he missed in his research, but I don't >recall any world-shaking discoveries concerning how people thought about >Chess.
John Savard