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re:Why does chess have strong links to Russia? - 2006/01/24 13:02
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidsos/ASIN/0936317019/inktomi-bklasin-20/002-0396
955-3127262.
"This book is a rerpint of Murrays monumental work, first publisehd in 1913.
Murray is a scientist, and his writing shows this: we have discussions about legibility of manuscripts, theories of the spreading of chess, etc.
"What we find in all this is a thorough and precise acount of how chess came into existence, and has spread over the world. Where many books on the history of chess are best in describing the modern history, this book is best in tellin about the roots. Also, we find hunderds of histroric chess puzzles. If you really want to know how the oriugins of the best game there is are, then read this book."
I don't know, but chess has been firmly embedded in Rusian culture for a long time. Tolstoy once wrote to his dauhgter, "Every young woman should know how to play chess..
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