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A History of Chess is a book written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record...

the vast literature on the game. In 1913, preeminent chess historian H. J. R. Murray wrote in his 900-page magnum opus A History of Chess that, "The game...

made, earlier chess-like games such as chaturaji may have existed. H. J. R. Murray refers to Rhys Davids' 1899 translation, noting that the 8×8 board...

position To any adjacent empty position A player wins by forming a mill. H. J. R. Murray calls version No. 1 "nine holes", and version No. 2 "three men's morris"...

pieces bear the names: Koenig, Dame, Turm, Laeufer, Springer, Bauer H. J. R. Murray, A History of Chess, ch. 11. The Wikibook Chess has a page on the topic...

Clan Murray): Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aaron Murray (born 1990), American football player Adam Murray (born...

gajas that start on the board due to movement rules. Chess historian H. J. R. Murray conjectured that the ashtāpada was also used for some old race-type...

referred to 3...f5 as "Ponziani's Counter Gambit". Chess historian H. J. R. Murray in his celebrated 1913 work A History of Chess called the opening simply...

chess historian H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) translated, printed, and interpreted the verses. However, it was not until 1954 that historian H.M. Gamer drew...

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (/ˈmʌri/; 7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of...

of his birth or baptism has never been found. The chess historian H. J. R. Murray summarised the information that he "gleaned" from various sources:...

Harold Murray may refer to: H. J. R. Murray (Harold James Ruthven Murray), educationalist and historian J. Harold Murray, American baritone singer and...

documented the game as Maak yék. Another early description of the game is by H.J.R. Murray in his 1913 work A History of Chess, and the game was written as Maak-yek...

Stewart Culin. This theory was rejected by H. J. R. Murray in 1913, however, and modern scholars have sided with Murray. According to Forbes, this game is properly...

Vale 2001: 173 Vale 2001: 151 Vale 2001: 174 Murray, H. J. R.: 1913 Bell (1979), pp. 62–64 Murray, H. J. R. (1952). "6: Race-Games". A History of Board-Games...

historian H. J. R. Murray estimated the total number of books, magazines, and newspaper columns pertaining to chess to be about 5,000 at that time. B. H. Wood...

in the 3rd century AD, though this does not seem to be accepted by H. J. R. Murray. Mayan cross and circle boards have been found on stones from the 7th...

Man. Vol. 31. (July 1931), pp. 123. H. J. R. Murray, History of Board Games other than Chess (1952) H. J. Braunholtz, The Game of Mweso in Uganda., Man...

to resemble the four legs and trunk of an actual elephant. However, H. J. R. Murray in his History of Chess considered the two-square diagonal leap to...

1794) Garry Kasparov Baron von der Lasa David H. Li Antonius van der Linde A. A. Macdonell H. J. R. Murray (June 24, 1868 – May 16, 1955) Joseph Needham...

honorary membership. One of von der Lasa's last services was to encourage H. J. R. Murray to pursue further researches into the early history of chess. Von der...

the player administering it, a rule that the eminent chess historian H. J. R. Murray believes may have been adopted from Russian chess. That rule disappeared...

only one side moves, while the hero plays the other. According to H. J. R. Murray's A History of Chess, the ultimate fate of Fidchell is shown a margin...

regardless of intervening pieces; thus, it is a (1,4)-leaper. According to H. J. R. Murray, the giraffe appears as a (1,4) leaper in Grant Acedrex; however, other...

William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray (November 21, 1869 – October 15, 1956) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who became active in...

but also contains many elementary errors that led chess historian H. J. R. Murray to suggest that it was prepared in a hurry. The book was written when...

to "gallop like the horse" (knight). The book A History of Chess by H. J. R. Murray, page 384, says that one Mr. Coxe, who was in Russia in 1772, saw chess...

John Rose Murray (19 December 1898 - 2 May 1991) was a Ceylonese accountant and politician in Colonial Ceylon. John Rose Murray was born on 19 December...

"alea" "towards the end of the sixth century". However, games historian H. J. R. Murray asserts the shift in nomenclature was in the other direction and the...