A history of chess
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 900
Description: Limited Edition short run reprint
Table of contents: title: Part i. Chess In Asia; title: Chapter 1. Introduction; title: Chapter 2. Chess in India i; title: Chapter 3. Chess in India ii; title: Chapter 4. Chess in India iii; title: Chapter 5. Chess In The Malay Lands; title: Chapter 6. Chess in Further India; title: Chapter 7. Chess in China, Corea, and Japan; title: Chapter 8. Chess in Persia under the Sasanians; title: Chapter 9. Chess in the eastern Empire; title: Chapter 10. The Arabic and Persian Literature of Chess; title: Chapter 11. Chess under Islam; title: Chapter 12. The Invention of Chess in Muslim Legend; title: Chapter 13. The Game of Shatranj: It's Theory and Practice i; title: Chapter 14. The Game of Shatranj: It's Theory and Practice ii; title: Chapter 15. The Game of Shatranj: It's Theory and Practice iii; title: Chapter 16. Games derived from Muslim and Indian Chess; title: Chapter 17. The Modern Games of Islam; title: Chapter 18. Chess in Central and Northern Asia, and in Russia; title: Part ii - Chess in Europe; title: Chapter 1. Chess in Western Christendom: Its Origin and Beginning; title: Chapter 2. Chess in the Middle Ages; title: Chapter 3. The Mediaeval Game; title: Chapter 4. The Early Didactic Literature; title: Chapter 5. The Moralities; title: Chapter 6. The Mediaeval Problem i; title: Chapter 7. The Mediaeval Problem ii; title: Chapter 8. The Mediaeval Problem iii; title: Chapter 9. Chess in Mediaeval Literature; title: Chapter 10.  Chess Boards and Chessmen; title: Chapter 11. The Beginnings of Modern Chess; title: Chapter 12. From Lopez to Greco; title: Chapter 13. From Greco to Stamma; title: Chapter 14. Philidor and the Modernese Masters; title: Chapter 15. The Nineteenth Century