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A Short History of Chess by HJR Murray - Couverture souple

Murray, H. J. R.

 
9784871877541: A Short History of Chess by HJR Murray
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 487187754X ISBN 13 : 9784871877541
Editeur : Ishi Press, 2015

Synopsis

Among the papers left by the late H. J. R. Murray was the typeset of A Short History of Chess which he wrote in 1917. This was not an abridgment of the standard work he had published some years earlier but a new and original brief history of the game from its beginnings until 1866. It has been brought up to date by Mr. B. Goulding Brown and Mr. Harry Golombek, covering the periods from 1866 to almost the present including the modern World Championships. Also added to this reprint of the original work by HJR Murray is a section by Sam Sloan disagreeing with some of the findings of HJR Murray and with the claims by Murray that ancient Indian works in Sanskrit contain references to chess. According to Sam Sloan, those works in Sanskrit contain no references to chess. Rather there are even more ancient works in Chinese that contain references to various games but whether those games were similar to or related to chess is not known. It must also be noted that there is another book by Henry A. Davidson with the exact same title as this book but that other book is completely different and has no connection with this book.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Among the papers left by the late H. J. R. Murray was the typeset of A Short History of Chess which he wrote in 1917. This was not an abridgment of the standard work he had published some years earlier but a new and original brief history of the game from its beginnings until 1866. It has been brought up to date by Mr. B. Goulding Brown and Mr. Harry Golombek, covering the periods from 1866 to almost the present including the modern World Championships. Also added to this reprint of the original work by HJR Murray is a section by Sam Sloan disagreeing with some of the findings of HJR Murray and with the claims by Murray that ancient Indian works in Sanskrit contain references to chess. According to Sam Sloan, those works in Sanskrit contain no references to chess. Rather there are even more ancient works in Chinese that contain references to various games but whether those games were similar to or related to chess is not known. It must also be noted that there is another book by Henry A. Davidson with the exact same title as this book but that other book is completely different and has no connection with this book.

Biographie de l'auteur

Harold James Ruthven Murray was born on 24 June 1868. His first book A History of Chess was published by Oxford University Press in 1913. Murray covered the first 1,400 years of the game's history in definitive detail. He died on 16 May 1955. He left several more manuscripts which are being held by Oxford University. Harry Golombek OBE was born 1 March 1911. He was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. He was three times British Chess Champion, in 1947, 1949 and 1955. He became a grandmaster in 1985. He died on 7 January 1995. Bertram Goulding Brown was a tournament chess player and a contributor to British Chess Magazine. He was born 5 July 1881 and died 22 August 1965 in the United Kingdom.

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Éditeur
Ishi Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
487187754X
ISBN 13 
9784871877541
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
166
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Personne responsable
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