The book on the left is dated back to 1656! The book on the right was written by Steinitz!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess book from 1656
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The book on the left is dated back to 1656! The book on the right was written by Steinitz!
The guy with a crown looks like Count Dracula.
Yes Susan, we already know that chess did come to London 1656.
But did you know that with it came also the Black Death?
Culminating in the Great Plague of London
in 1665, which claimed 6,000 lives per week at its peak.
More about this on my new blog.
http://pelle-andersson.blogspot.com/2009/05/playing-with-death.html
MG, how much i’d give to have one of those books!