The Game and Playe of Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in the 1470s, it is one of the earliest titles published...
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Pawn (chess) (section Placement and movement)
this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton...
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Tinker, Tailor (category Works of unknown authorship)
The Game and Playe of the Chesse (c. 1475), in which pawns are named: "Labourer, Smith, Clerk, Merchant, Physician, Taverner, Guard and Ribald." The first...
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William Caxton (category People of the Tudor period)
the British Library Selected works, printed by Caxton from the Folger Shakespeare Library's digital image collection The Game and Playe of the Chesse...
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Jacobus de Cessolis (redirect from James of Cessole)
that the popularity of the work rivaled "that of the Bible itself." The work was the basis for William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse (1474)...
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informational book The Game and Playe of the Chesse. The Australian Defence is an unorthodox opening in the Queen's Pawn Game, defined by the moves: d4 Na6 It...
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and Playe of the Chesse, one of the earliest printed books in English, published by William Caxton in 1474. Caxton's Game and playe of the chesse, 1474...
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Memorable Games My Great Predecessors My System The Game and Playe of the Chesse The Game of Chess The Oxford Companion to Chess more... British Chess...
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for the nobility – "whirling, leaping, casting the darte, wrestling, running" and derided "dauncing, fayninge to instrumentes, playe at dise, chesse, or...
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Talbot Baines Reed (redirect from A History of The Old English Letter Foundries)
anniversary of William Caxton's printing of The Game and Playe of the Chesse. This was thought to be the first book printed in England, in 1474, and the exhibition...
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British Chess Magazine (redirect from The British Chess Magazine)
Schallopp, Emil, 196? (1877). B.C.M. Classic Reprints, number 6: The Game and Playe of the Chesse 1474, Caxton, William, 01-12-1968 (1474). ISBN 978-0-900846-00-7...
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Bernard Garter (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
claims for Garter. The "B. G." who wrote Ludus Scacchiæ: Chesse-playe, a game pleasant, wittie, and politicall, London, 1597, is further identified with Garter...
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Robert Broughton (MP) (category People of the Wars of the Roses)
and Hopton is found in a copy of William Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse once owned by John Paston III, and now in the British Library. Broughton's...
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Thomas Hoccleve (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
as The Game and Playe of Chesse. The Regement survives in at least 43 manuscript copies. It comments on Henry V's lineage, to cement the House of Lancaster's...
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Colard Mansion (category Printers of incunabula)
together with William Caxton and Johann Veldener 1475: The Game and Playe of Chesse, together with Caxton (who translated it from the French version), based...
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Caxton publishes The Game and Playe of Chesse, the first chess book in English. 1475–1525 – Castling and the modern moves for the queen and bishop are slowly...
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