An inquiry into the antient Greek game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, antecedent to the siege of Troy; with reasons for believing the same to have been known from remote antiquity in China, and progressively improved into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European chess. Also two dissertations: I. On the Athenian Skirophoria. II. On the mystical meaning of the bough and umbrella, in the Skiran rites /
Palamedes(Greek mythological character)
Christie, James.
London,
1801.