. Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice . n ANCIENT EGYPTIANS PLATING AT ShESS, FEOM A PAINTING AX BENI HASSAN, The Game of Chess stands pre-eminent above all sedentary amuse-ments, from its fascinating attractions. Complex in its situationsand in its principles, it requires the fullest exertion of the faculties toarrange your own plan of operations, and to watch the slightestmovements of your opponent, to calculate the moves which it isprobable he will make, so that you may be ready to thwart them atthe instant, and to carry out your own scheme th
. Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice . n ANCIENT EGYPTIANS PLATING AT ShESS, FEOM A PAINTING AX BENI HASSAN, The Game of Chess stands pre-eminent above all sedentary amuse-ments, from its fascinating attractions. Complex in its situationsand in its principles, it requires the fullest exertion of the faculties toarrange your own plan of operations, and to watch the slightestmovements of your opponent, to calculate the moves which it isprobable he will make, so that you may be ready to thwart them atthe instant, and to carry out your own scheme through all the tor-tuous windings of a stern opposition. The history of chess is involved in great obscurity, but it seemsthat it has been practised in Hindostan for many ages, and therefore,on the authorities of Sir William Jones and Dr. Hyde, the inventionof the game is most generally ascribed to the natives of India, andthat it was brought into Europe by means of the Persians and chess was known to the Egyptians at the remotest periods ofantiquity, is evidenced by paintin
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