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The oldest European chess
book is “Juegos Axedrez,
dados y tables”, 13th century.
The first hardback on chess
was “Dass Goldin Spil”, 1472.
The first Russian book was a translation of
Benjamin’s
“A Young Girl Reading”, Jean Honore
Fragonard
The first book on chess strategy was Philidor’s “L’Analyze
des Eschecs”, 1749 (10 languages and 100+
editions).
The first American chess book
was “Chess Made Easy” by James Humphreys, 1802 (a reprint of Philidor’s book of 1796).
The first original/creative American book was “The
Elements of Chess”, 1805.
The first book devoted to the
analysis of a single opening, “Analysis of the Muzio gambit by Kassin and
Cochrane”, 1829.
“Virgin Mary with Book -
Annunciation”,
The first book review was
“Chess” by Twiss, 1787.
A German book “Advice to Spectators at Chess Tournaments” had all its pages blank
except the last one, on which were written the words “Halt’s Maul, keep your
mouth shut”.
All books are divisible into two
classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Chess
has an important advantage over physical sports in that each move can be
diagrammed and debated to death, and every sequence duplicated exactly by
anyone able to fathom notation, though they be separated from the original
competitors by an ocean or by a century. Unlike other sports, chess
can be described, analyzed, and debated in a completely literary format, and this
unique quality is undoubtedly why ‘there are more books written about chess’
than all other sports and hobbies combined’ - Bruce A. Moon. Chess-Poster: Home
Sources: www.geocities.com/duvvuriravi/chessquotes1.html http://www.chessworld.com.au/page12.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/randybauer/ http://www.netidea.com/~smartbar/bishop.htm
William Caxton (1422?-1491)
was an English businessman, royal advisor, translator, editor, and printer who
set up
Books
When you talk about technology, you tend to find
that people think that you are talking about televisions, gadgets, stereos and
computers; but there is a technology that has existed for thousands of years,
barely evolving, rarely changing and always popular. The humble book numbers among humanity’s
greatest ever inventions - more important that the printing press, more
important than the industrial revolution that shaped the modern world and as
vital as the wheel, fire and farming in the development of humanity. The book is not only a technology, but perhaps
the nearest thing that we have to a perfect invention. Stories and fantasy are one of the things that
truly mark out humanity from the animal world. The ability to look outside our own reality and
imagine the way things could be, will be or once were. When I interviewed best selling author Michael
Marshall Smith in March about the technology he loves he picked out the Apple iPhone, Palm Treo and Macbooks before arriving at the book: “People have said for
ages the book is going to die; it’s not,” he proclaimed. “It’s the closest thing I’ve seen to a
perfect technology; it’s portable, you can use it whenever you want, chuck it
in a box for 50 years and it will come out and work straight away. You see a film and that’s it - you’ll never
see it any other way, but with a book it’s different.” Television, film and computer games are all
wonderful ways of transmitting stories, casting images across your eyes and
painstakingly creating worlds for their tale. Books conjure their worlds in
another way entirely - drawing broad strokes on the most beautiful of blank
canvasses and letting our most powerful asset - our brains - fill in the gaps.
Where film and television nail their reality to their visuals, a book lets us
pick our protagonists, make our own sets and create our own stunts. Books need no CGI to conjure the majesty of
events too expensive or awesome to recreate, no clumsy voiceover to explain the
plot; they contain no bad actors (unless they need to), no wobbly props, no
bloopers. Perhaps most importantly, a
book needs to take no shortcuts. A
simple book gives the reader the chance to summon their own complexities, and a
complex book allows the reader to wend their own way through the forest of
ideas that confront them. Every page
turn brings a new richness, creating a tiny suspense within us that continues through
to the last page. Good or bad, the
author is speaking to us as directly as if they were in the room with us; their
vision is rarely watered down by others’ visions. A book written hundreds of years ago can be as
perfect as anything written today. The technology involved in creating its
special effects is never watered down by the years; merely placed in a
different time. A good book taps into a part of us that only reality can
reach, and allow us to explore it in the realm of fantasy. Can a horror film ever tap into that primeval
terror that still sits within the core of all of us? Can a film stir the excitement of our inner
child, or mix in the sorrow of a lost character with that of a lost real-life
relative? The best films and television
shows are the greatest sum of their parts; a book can carry a magic that can
never be described as a collection of words on pages. A book needs no
battery, no charger, nothing but a light source. It can be reused thousands of times and still
bring as much pleasure to a reader as it did on its first use. It’s portable; you can dip in and out of it
and read as much or as little as you want in a sitting. Information can be transferred wholesale to
the internet, but the perfect chunk of text that makes up a book is somehow far
more satisfying when consumed on the page and not the screen. A picture may tell a thousand words, but the
fact is that a thousand pictures can’t tell a story in the way a book can. Books are our friends; our childhood
companions that live within us throughout our lives. Our favourite books
are something we recommend in the knowledge that the other party will never get
the same experience as we do. Will books
ever be surpassed? In
a word, no. Complex, detailed, passionate, emotive, surprising,
involving, informative and constantly re-invented for a new generation, books
are the closest thing we have to a microcosm of humanity. Patrick
Goss.
The Old Texts
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What are the sources available to the historians and what do they tell us? This English page gives a
synthesis of all sources along with dates.
The French page is more complete with some short discussions -
apologies to our English-speaking folks.
Feel free to mail me if you need more information.
Here are all these well known texts, and
others less known, put in chronological order as it is assumed in 2000. These concern: Indian, Persian, Arab and European Chess, Xiangqi and Shogi.
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