enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen

   Madden was a palaeographer, a scholar of early vernacular literature, but he was especially intrigued by these artifacts because he was a chess enthusiast. [7] [8] Madden immediately began writing a research paper about the collection; [9] the paper remains informative today. [10]

3. Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_pieces_of_the_Lewis...

   Madden was a palaeographer, a scholar of early vernacular literature, but he was especially intrigued by these artifacts because he was a chess enthusiast. [5] [6] Madden immediately set about writing a monumental research paper about the collection, Madden (1832) – one that remains informative and impressive today. [7]

4. Charlemagne chessmen - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_chessmen

   Queen. The legend regarding the set states that these chessmen were given as a gift to Charlemagne by Caliph Harun al-Rashid, [3] who was an avid chess player. The fact that the set displays elephants instead of bishops and chariots instead of rooks denotes a form of the Perso-Arabic game known as Shatranj, itself coming from the original Indian Chaturanga (which compound word means the 'Four ...

5. Chess in the arts - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_in_the_arts

   Honoré Daumier (1863), The Chess Players In 1975, former President of Pakistan Zulfi Bhutto gifted a carved ivory set of chess to the former United States President Gerald Ford. Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages.

6. Toys and games in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_and_games_in_ancient_Rome

   The ancient Romans had a variety of toys and games. Children used toys such as tops, marbles, wooden swords, kites, [2] whips, seesaws, dolls, chariots, and swings. Gambling and betting were popular games in ancient Rome. Legislation heavily regulated gambling; however, these laws were likely not enforced.

7. History of chess - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess

   The earliest precursor of modern chess is a game called chaturanga, which flourished in India by the 6th century, and is the earliest known game to have two essential features found in all later chess variations—different pieces having different powers (which was not the case with checkers and Go), and victory depending on the fate of one ...